I'm happy to announce that mine and Aseel Ali Saleh's film "The Curious Case of the Crimson Curves" is now available to watch online.
you can watch it on YouTube or on Vimeo.
"On a stormy night, a mysterious red lady bursts into Private Dick's office, enticing him to enter a cliché film noir plot that constantly repeats itself. Private will have to face his scorned rival, Big Candy, to get to the bottom of this mystery"
The way some people, mostly westerners, who claim to support Palestine have acted about the Israeli hostages is honestly one of the most insane things I've ever seen. Going out of the way to tear down their posters, openly mocking their families for grieving or worrying they were being abused, joking that they probably wished they could stay for the great cuisine, and even writing fanfiction about them secretly being in love with their kidnappers? I can't think of any similar situations that have produced this kind of deranged reaction, not on this scale at least.
It's fair to argue Palestinians have been *radicalized* due to decades of oppression by Israel and that them expressing contempt for Israelis held hostage is reasonable given that reality. But 99.9% of the people doing these things are not Palestinian, nor are they oppressed. Most of them didn't even care about this conflict before October.
Again, you can support Palestine and Palestinian liberation without ignoring TWO THOUSAND YEARS OF ANTISEMITIC VIOLENCE AND CONSTANT EXPULSIONS AND MASSACRES OF JEWISH PEOPLES ALL OVER THE WORLD.
This is not something "in the past" (btw, those posts about how the Holocaust was "sooooo long ago" are fucking disgusting!), antisemitic violence is a global ongoing reality. Synagogues are being threatened and attacked, Jewish people are being harassed and murdered, Jewish-owned businesses are being threatened and vandalized, there are people in the streets calling for a Jewish genocide, and there are ongoing pogroms and expulsions of Jewish communities.
Jewish people did not leave their respective home countries for funsies, they left because those countries made it extremely and violently clear that they were not welcome. Many Israelis can't "go back home" because those "homes" chased them out at gunpoint or worse.
Again, this is not about having to support Israel or the actions of the Israeli government. It's literally just about not spreading antisemitic rhetoric and revisionist history that tries to blame Jewish people for antisemitism (and yes, I've seen those "Zionism makes Jews think they can't belong anywhere else" posts, as if the constant hate and violence isn't at all part of that).
I'm so beyond disgusted by the behavior I've seen from people who I previously respected. I've seen so many Jewish people I follow saying that they no longer feel safe in any leftist community and I don't blame them for that. I'm not even Jewish and I have lost so much trust and faith in Western leftists over just the last month.