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Defamation(Hashmatsa)

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Israel, Denmark, United States · 2009
1h 31m
Director Yoav Shamir
Starring Uri Avneri, Norman Finkelstein, Abraham Foxman, John Mearsheimer
Genre Documentary

Israeli director Yoav Shamir embarks on a quest to answer the question, "What is anti-Semitism today?" Speaking with an array of people from across the political spectrum and traveling to places like Auschwitz and Brooklyn, Shamir discovers the realities of anti-Semitism today. His findings are shocking, enlightening, and - surprisingly - often wryly funny.

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Village Voice by

Like most good documentaries, Defamation poses more questions than it purports to answer, before arriving at the mildly reductive postulation that what's past is past.

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Los Angeles Times by Kevin Thomas

Even though Defamation, which is sprinkled with unexpected moments of wry humor, will be inescapably controversial, Yoav Shamir strives admirably to be evenhanded.

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New York Post by Lou Lumenick

While he takes an evenhanded approach, the filmmaker appears on camera far too often and goes off point as frequently as Moore.

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San Francisco Chronicle by Walter Addiego

Defamation tries to give all sides a full airing, but it's not hard to guess the director's own feeling. At the end, he says, "Putting too much emphasis on the past, as horrific as it has been, is holding us back."

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