The global premiere of “Hating Israel: In Search of The Truth Behind BDS” was screened on Wednesday evening at the Jerusalem Cinematheque in the presence of a select group of parliamentarians, clergy, business leaders, and VIPs. The full-length documentary takes viewers on a personal journey through Israel in search of the truth behind the global movement to defame and destroy Israel. The film is the latest initiative of Proclaiming Justice to The Nations (PJTN) as part of their ongoing global educational and mobilization campaign against the BDS movement. The film will be distributed in the fall through PJTN’s media partners on several television networks, reaching a combined audience of more than 950 million viewers in 200 countries. It will also have a limited theatrical release in the US and Europe and will be screened in college and university campuses, civic groups, churches and synagogues around the globe. The Trailer you can see below has already won a Telly Award.
The documentary offers a news-driven, satirical approach to focus on the global impact of the BDS Movement — a movement to boycott, divest, and sanction against the State of Israel. Through the lens of Emmy Award winning director Stan Moore, host Brad Stine leads viewers through a twisted landscape of false perceptions to fully explain the anti-Semitic roots of BDS. Through commentary, interviews, and visuals from headline news the world, the documentary exposes the frightening rise seen globally of a new anti-Semitism being promoted through the BDS Movement.
Viewers join American Comedian Brad Stine on a journey in search of truth that takes him across Israel and the United States of America, meeting Ethiopian Jews in Jerusalem and Muslim-Israelis in Haifa, visiting Israeli colleges and high-tech companies to hear about the latest breakthroughs in Israeli innovation, traveling into the West Bank to hear personal stories from local Palestinians, learning firsthand how, if successful, the BDS movement would actively destroy the livelihoods of thousands of Palestinian families.
In America, Stine met with an array of experts including former CIA director James R. Woosley, Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz, Jewish comedian Jackie Mason, and exiled Palestinian Christians and Jewish students under attack on university campuses. He learned about the increasingly violent protests and intimidation tactics used against pro-Israel students.
Laurie Cardoza-Moore, president and founder of PJTN noted: “Not only have we been relentless in exposing the BDS movement and its leaders as anti-Semitic, but as inherently antithetical and deeply damaging to the cause of peace, justice, equality, democracy and human rights for the people of Israel, as well as the Palestinians whose jobs it threatens”. She continued: “This docu-tainment film is PJTN’s next step to expose the lies of the boycott Israel movement”.