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Post Mon, Oct 06 2014, 10:40 pm
I took the time to watch the start. It's pretty bad.

The problem is that it presents the terrorist narrative as unadulterated fact. It's not just terrorists singing about how the European Jews stole their homes - you literally see Israeli soldiers attacking innocent Palestinians ("the day after the creation of the state of Israel"), and those same homes going to Jews fresh off the boat from Europe.

Zero indication that the day after Israel was officially created was the day that Israel was attacked by several Arab states, not the day that Israelis attacked innocent Arabs at random (kind of a big difference, there...). Zero indication - aside from the appearance of genocidal Israeli soldiers at the beginning - that Israel was made up of people other than European Jewish refugees. (Like, say, the Jewish majority that existed in the part of Israel accepted by its then-leaders as their new state. Or the over a million Jews forced to leave their homes by Arabs.)

IMHO there should be more focus on that in the why-to-protest literature. A lot of operas and plays and movies, etc, give a look into the minds and motivations of characters who do terrible things. The difference between art and pro-violence propaganda is whether those motivations are portrayed as reasonable or not.
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