The Palestinian Film Festival uses the arts to demonize the State of Israel. The event is promoted by the Canadian Arab Federation, condemned by the Canadian government for its support of Hamas and Islamic Jihad.
Palestinian propaganda has been ramped up a notch, using the prominent Toronto Film Festivals, in a manipulation of the arts to emotionalize its message.
The Sixth Annual Toronto Palestinian Film Festival (TPFF) opened on Saturday September 28th, on the heels of the renowned Toronto International Film Festival . Although described as "dedicated to bringing Palestinian cinema, live musical performances , cuisine and art to audiences," it is more accurately a propaganda fest that promotes Palestinian victimhood and paints Israel as a criminal.
The event is promoted by the Canadian Arab Federation, condemned by the Canadian government for its support of Hamas and Islamic Jihad.
The TPFF was founded in 2008 as a tribute to the 60th anniversary of Al-Nakba, or "Day of Catastrophe," as the Palestinians call it, to commemorate May 15th, the day after Israel's Declaration of Independence in 1948.
The festival begins with the Canadian premier of Abdallah Salem Omeish's dramatic and vivid documentary: "The War Around Us," which recounts the experiences of two Al-Jazeera journalists - Ayman Mohyeldin and Sherine Tadros - on assignment in Gaza when Israel broke a four-month ceasefire with Hamas to launch a military strike on November 4, 2008, to capture a tunnel being planned in which to kidnap Israeli solders nearby.
Mohyeldin and Tadros, the only reporters covering the violence, captured emotional and cleverly manipulated and edited footage of dead and injured civilians allegedly killed in the shelling and claims to catch Israel in an alleged lie that only "surgical strikes" were performed. The documentary misleadingly displays A UN school as one of the targets.
Toronto's NOW Magazine described the documentary effects as " nervy but ultimately unnecessary; if the footage alone doesn't whip up your anger, you're just not paying attention," while declaring the whole Toronto Palestine Film Festival as, "almost by definition, a political event."
Also showcased is one of the most distinctive films from the Arab world in recent years, according to the Toronto Star. " When I Saw You," by Annemarie Jacir, presents the experiences of refugees fleeing the "Arab-Israeli hostilities" that gripped the region in 1967 through the eyes of an 11-year-old boy, in a camp in Jordan with his distressed mother. His frustrations soon turn into acts of rebellion as he joins fighters preparing to head back across the border.
No mention of course by the fact that it was the Arab nations that started the 67 war by attacking Israel unprovoked with the intention of wiping the Jewish State off the map.
Another film, "Infiltrators," by Khaled Jarrar will be presented; it is about "Palestinians going over, under and through "the Wall." The documentary "This Is My Land... Hebron" displays yet another 'distressing' perspective,misleadingly painting Israelis as human rights abusers. Directors Guilia Amati and Stephen Natanson take viewers into a West Bank town, where about 600 Israeli settlers and 2,000 soldiers appear to make life virtually impossible "for their 160,000 'poor Palestinian' neighbours with random curfews, checkpoints and offensive graffiti."
Laughable - Again no mention of the terrorist attacks against innocent Israeli civilians, babies barbarically murdered and children butchered horrifically, as had been the case in recent history.
In advance of this event, a Reel Palestine panel was held on September 9th at the University of Toronto's Innis Town Hall. It featured a conversation with Palestinian filmmakers at the TIFF, and was co-sponsored by the university's Cinema Studies Institute.
The propagandist motive of the festival was neatly articulated by Jackie Reem Salloum, director of one of the documentaries, who told Al Jazeera,"Hollywood doesn't know anything about the Palestinian issue."
The arts have historically served as a powerful tool in shaping a culture, and the Palestinian Film Festival uses the arts to demonize the State of Israel.
Salloum further 'advises' Palestinian parents to encourage their children to tell their stories through artistic expression and the media. In other words by lying and deceit.
One publication referred to the festival as a collection of stories that depict the "occupier" as inhumane, deceitful and brutal, while the 'poor little Palestinians' develop "funding and talent," and the courage and determination to fight for survival. No mention again of the barbaric murders of Israelis by these so-called 'talented' Arabs!
Another case of Arab cheek & western gullibility.
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