Israelism

This is an important eye-opening film. What it does best is serve as an exposé. The voices in this film are across the board in how they want Israel to be seen and represented and their experiences of the meaning of Israel. I believe everyone should see this documentary, because it is an unflinching look into the world of Israel as a nation, how it's represented in the Jewish community in the USA, and about Israel's relationship to Palestine. Please give this movie a try with an open heart and open eyes. It makes sense that people believes this documentary is controversial, but just because something is challenging, it doesn't mean it's untrue.

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More personal opinion portrayed vs factual historical broad perspective reporting. It seems a very limited pool of a population was presented in the film without balance. Producers don't seem to have gone to the effort of searching for a diverse base. Not the first time producers have not done due diligence in a quasi-editorial documentary attempt and have just relied on putting forth their opinion vs a creative piece with more depth. Very disappointed that a film like this is produced and will affect those without knowledge of context or history. Most people "history" goes back maybe 30 years.

Honest and frank accounts by Jewish Americans and Israeli soldiers journeying to make sense of the information gaps they had grown up with, seeing a world and living an experience that differed from the stories they grew up being schooled in, and accounts of the terror in expressing what they learned and the courage to overcome the rejection by their own for sharing this. The piece also includes the balance of the older generation lamenting and denying the new generation's discovery of the reality of life on the ground, rather than taking the older generation's word for it and the older generation's pledge to return this new generation to their old way of thinking and telling of the Zionist story.

A very important film for particularly Jewish people, by Jewish people, but also for anyone supporting human rights, particularly the liberation of the Palestinian people. It confronts the indoctrination for the support of Israel and any cost, and right now, the unquestioning support for Israel, is very dangerous for Jewish people. I've seen this film twice and hope it becomes available globally. I feel it has supported the self-education I've been seeking to understand how and why Israel is bombarding Gaza and the West Bank and committing war crimes with the backing of the U. S. and the U. K. Kudos to the film makers for their bravery in making this film, too. I wish they could do Q&A after every showing.

This film is great... unless you're educated. I watched it hoping to get a different perspective but what I ended up with was a clearly biased, skewed view that is not representative of the majority of Israeli citizens or Jewish people, but rather a narrow view from tokenized radicalized Jewish people. When the characters portrayed their experiences and views, it's very easy to believe their suffering and feelings are genuine, and who wouldn't empathize with that- take a deeper dive into a legitimate history lesson and you'll quickly find that this is nothing more than a poor attempt to qualify these tokenized views as legit. 1 star because you can't give less. You can go back to eating your tide pods now.

Seeing Israel through the eyes of the disillusioned Jewish community was very insightful. I am guessing that the poor reviews are from the "pro-Israel" crowd. Highly recommended for anyone looking to learn more about the heartbreaking history. I enjoyed hearing first-hand account from former IDF soldiers and Israelis on their birthright. I really felt sorry for these young Jewish people who felt indoctrinated and betrayed; they really look tortured as they learned the history of the occupation and creation of Israel. The scenes from the AIPAC conference were also quite shocking. The film flies by quickly, and I imagine it could have been much longer.

Since October 7, we've been on a very fast track of getting up to date on over 75 years of history. It's possible most things in this documentary are less new than when it came out nine months ago. However, I watched it with my mom which was perfect for her. I recommend highly for you or those you know that need some of the basics. Others, have mentioned it being anti-s*metic. I see no evidence of this. It's typically referred to this way by zionist. If you look at the reviews based on country, its quite revealing. Those giving the documentary "1" star are primarily US and Israel. Clearly biased reviews.

This was really insightful and powerful! Power to the jewish people going against the grain and speaking up for the things that they see. This was really well done too by showcasing people who still are indoctrined without making it aggressively negative. I think it gave an objective view of how indoctrination happens and the need to question narratives we have been taught not only in this circumstance, but always. I think this was done with good intention and if you want to see why and how people are made to think bigoted thoughts without taking away from the manufactured fear that fuels it, in a really delicate way. Fully recommend everyone to go in with an open mind.