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    During his decades at the head of the ADL, Foxman was one of the leading proponents of the idea that caring about Jewish people means supporting the state of Israel and that anyone who condemns Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians must be an antisemite. The movie tells the story of two young American Jews who were raised in institutions where strong support for Israel was taken as a given. As one Palestinian interviewed in Israelism points out, an American who moves to Israel tomorrow will immediately have more rights than a Palestinian who spent their entire life there under occupation. Writing in the Forward, Mira Fox argues that the picture Israelism paints of establishment Jewish institutions trying to hide the ugly realities of Palestinian oppression from young Jews has become dated since the filmmakers started work in 2016. There is no mention of the UN role in the creation of Israel, Arab aggression at the birth of the state, chronic Palestinian terror and rejection of peace offers, the denial of any Jewish connection to Jerusalem, and on and on… [T]he very notion of Israel advocacy in the film takes on a sinister tone, as if anything short of perfect even-handedness is an unforgiveable [sic] sin.


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