Intent on shaking up the ultimate 'sacred cow' for Jews, Israeli director Yoav Shamir embarks on a provocative - and at times irreverent - quest to answer the question, "What is anti-Semitism today?" Does it remain a dangerous and immediate threat? Or is it a scare tactic used by right-wing Zionists to discredit their critics? Speaking with an array of people from across the political spectrum (including the head of the Anti-Defamation League and its fiercest critic, author N... (Full plot summary below)
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Intent on shaking up the ultimate 'sacred cow' for Jews, Israeli director Yoav Shamir embarks on a provocative - and at times irreverent - quest to answer the question, "What is anti-Semitism today?" Does it remain a dangerous and immediate threat? Or is it a scare tactic used by right-wing Zionists to discredit their critics? Speaking with an array of people from across the political spectrum (including the head of the Anti-Defamation League and its fiercest critic, author Norman Finkelstein) and traveling to places like Auschwitz (alongside Israeli school kids) and Brooklyn (to explore reports of violence against Jews), Shamir discovers the realities of anti-Semitism today. His findings are shocking, enlightening and - surprisingly - often wryly funny.
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| Film Comment MagazineJennifer Dworkin[T]hough the film is scattershot and flip at times, it is also heartfelt. |
| Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanThis brave documentary takes on the topic of anti-Semitism in a relentlessly probing and original way. |
| Boston GlobeTy BurrIn its sneaky, cheeky way, Defamation is a mitzvah, an act of kindness. |
| rec.arts.movies.reviewsLouis ProyectLike Diogenes with his lamp, director Yoav Shamir goes in search of anti-Semitism. This film goes further than any ever made in demonstrating that the Holocaust has been used cynically to justify Israeli expansionism and brutality. |
| Boston PhoenixGerald PearyShamir is smart enough to move his film beyond shrill polemics and into more observational territory: Israeli high-school kids visiting Poland to see the death camps, African-Americans on a street corner in Brooklyn discussing their experiences with Jews. |
| Chicago ReaderAndrea GronvallThe filmmaker gives roughly equal time to left, right, and moderate views, but his glib narration, accentuated by a jaunty score, undercuts this otherwise worthy inquiry. |
| San Francisco ChronicleWalter AddiegoDefamation 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." |
| Village VoiceScott FoundasLike 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. |
| CompuserveHarvey S. KartenIntelligent, muscular documentary filmmaking that asks all the right questions about anti-Semitism today. |
| VarietyLeslie FelperinEnd result is at once intelligent, wry and -- there's no way around it -- quintessentially Jewish, in the best sense. |
