The Ripper
02-02-2011, 02:59 PM
From: Uncoverage.net (http://www.uncoverage.net/2011/01/valley-of-the-wolves-palestine-anti-semitic-hate-film-of-2011/)
Update: Michael Rubin at National Review Online
Max Fisher at Atlantic Wire: “Turkey’s Rambo? Most Offensive Movie this Year?”
Claire Berlinski: “Valley of the Wolves: Palestine…..or How the West was Lost”
Just in time to “celebrate” International Holocaust Day, Germany and Austria have debuted an anti-Israel, anti-Semitic, blood-libeling propaganda movie glorifying the Mavi Marmara flotilla. It is titled “Valley of the Wolves: Palestine.”
JPost:
“…..As of press time it was unclear whether German theaters would actually show the film on Thursday. Austrian cinemas did show show it on Thursday.
At the outset of the film, Polat Alemdar – the main character in Valley of the Wolves – announces, “I didn’t come to Israel, I came to Palestine.”More than 3 million German Turks live in the Federal Republic.The registered Jewish community membership totals 105,000.
Politicians from the Green Party and the Christian Social Union criticized the film this week.
Philipp Missfelder, a member of the ruling Christian Democratic Party, said it disrespects victims of the Holocaust, and Jerzy Montag of the Green Party called the movie “irresponsible.”
[… ]
According to the statement, Valley of the Wolves contains “propaganda tendencies” and “repetitive violence.”
The film cost $10 million to make, making it the most expensive in Turkish cinematic history.
The movie, the second part of Valley of the Wolves media franchise, recreates IDF commandos’ interception of the Mavi Marmara protest ship to Gaza in May 2010, which resulted in the deaths of nine Turkish men.
Critics of the film say that Valley of the Wolves glorifies Hamas and the Turkish IHH organization that dispatched the ship.
Maya Zehden, spokeswoman for the 12,000-member Berlin Jewish community, told The Jerusalem Post on Thursday that the film is “agitational” and “is not good” for Jewish-Turkish relations in Germany or for Israel- Turkey relations.
The film denies Israel’s right to exist. Critics in Germany and Israel have slammed it for fanning the flames of contemporary anti-Semitism.
Hehe, I've seen one of the Valley of the Wolves -movies, the one taking place in Iraq. It is unashamed, rather clumsy propaganda, but I think that description fits quite a few "mainstream" Hollywood movies as well. Jews around the world are of course going apeshit over it, and wikpedia tells us:
The film finally received an 18 certificate from the FSK in Germany despite their initial concerns over the film's perceived anti-Semitic and anti-Israeli overtones and its scheduled release on January 27, 2011 (International Holocaust Remembrance Day) which caused some controversy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valley_of_the_Wolves:_Palestine
Plans to screen a Turkish film in Germany starting Thursday have been halted over concerns the action movie contains anti-Semitic propaganda.
A spokesperson for the Pera Film Company in Cologne, which was distributing “Kurtlar Vadisi: Filistin” (Valley of the Wolves: Palestine) in Germany, said the German Movie Control Association, or FSK, would prevent the screening because the movie, which allegedly features anti-Semitic and anti-Israeli overtones, was to be released on Jan. 27, International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
...
“‘Kurtlar Vadisi: Filistin’ is a problematic movie because it foments violence, anti-Israeli [feelings] and anti-Semitic sentiments,” said Kerstin Griese, a parliamentary deputy for the opposition Social Democratic Party.
The date chosen to release the movie elicited anger from across the political spectrum, with Philip Missfelder, a parliamentary member of the ruling Christian Democratic Party, saying it disrespected victims of the Holocaust. Jerzy Montag of the Green Party said it was “irresponsible” to release the film Jan. 27.
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=a-screeing-prevention-for-the-valley-of-the-wolves-2011-01-25
Compare Valley of the Wolves...
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...with Hollywood productions such as...
The Hunting Party...
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...or Behind Enemy Lines...
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...not to mention the numerous other Hollywood movies that demonize whichever group that is deemed sufficiently anti-American. ;)
But those movies rarely raise such a controversy.
Update: Michael Rubin at National Review Online
Max Fisher at Atlantic Wire: “Turkey’s Rambo? Most Offensive Movie this Year?”
Claire Berlinski: “Valley of the Wolves: Palestine…..or How the West was Lost”
Just in time to “celebrate” International Holocaust Day, Germany and Austria have debuted an anti-Israel, anti-Semitic, blood-libeling propaganda movie glorifying the Mavi Marmara flotilla. It is titled “Valley of the Wolves: Palestine.”
JPost:
“…..As of press time it was unclear whether German theaters would actually show the film on Thursday. Austrian cinemas did show show it on Thursday.
At the outset of the film, Polat Alemdar – the main character in Valley of the Wolves – announces, “I didn’t come to Israel, I came to Palestine.”More than 3 million German Turks live in the Federal Republic.The registered Jewish community membership totals 105,000.
Politicians from the Green Party and the Christian Social Union criticized the film this week.
Philipp Missfelder, a member of the ruling Christian Democratic Party, said it disrespects victims of the Holocaust, and Jerzy Montag of the Green Party called the movie “irresponsible.”
[… ]
According to the statement, Valley of the Wolves contains “propaganda tendencies” and “repetitive violence.”
The film cost $10 million to make, making it the most expensive in Turkish cinematic history.
The movie, the second part of Valley of the Wolves media franchise, recreates IDF commandos’ interception of the Mavi Marmara protest ship to Gaza in May 2010, which resulted in the deaths of nine Turkish men.
Critics of the film say that Valley of the Wolves glorifies Hamas and the Turkish IHH organization that dispatched the ship.
Maya Zehden, spokeswoman for the 12,000-member Berlin Jewish community, told The Jerusalem Post on Thursday that the film is “agitational” and “is not good” for Jewish-Turkish relations in Germany or for Israel- Turkey relations.
The film denies Israel’s right to exist. Critics in Germany and Israel have slammed it for fanning the flames of contemporary anti-Semitism.
Hehe, I've seen one of the Valley of the Wolves -movies, the one taking place in Iraq. It is unashamed, rather clumsy propaganda, but I think that description fits quite a few "mainstream" Hollywood movies as well. Jews around the world are of course going apeshit over it, and wikpedia tells us:
The film finally received an 18 certificate from the FSK in Germany despite their initial concerns over the film's perceived anti-Semitic and anti-Israeli overtones and its scheduled release on January 27, 2011 (International Holocaust Remembrance Day) which caused some controversy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valley_of_the_Wolves:_Palestine
Plans to screen a Turkish film in Germany starting Thursday have been halted over concerns the action movie contains anti-Semitic propaganda.
A spokesperson for the Pera Film Company in Cologne, which was distributing “Kurtlar Vadisi: Filistin” (Valley of the Wolves: Palestine) in Germany, said the German Movie Control Association, or FSK, would prevent the screening because the movie, which allegedly features anti-Semitic and anti-Israeli overtones, was to be released on Jan. 27, International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
...
“‘Kurtlar Vadisi: Filistin’ is a problematic movie because it foments violence, anti-Israeli [feelings] and anti-Semitic sentiments,” said Kerstin Griese, a parliamentary deputy for the opposition Social Democratic Party.
The date chosen to release the movie elicited anger from across the political spectrum, with Philip Missfelder, a parliamentary member of the ruling Christian Democratic Party, saying it disrespected victims of the Holocaust. Jerzy Montag of the Green Party said it was “irresponsible” to release the film Jan. 27.
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=a-screeing-prevention-for-the-valley-of-the-wolves-2011-01-25
Compare Valley of the Wolves...
li7VMNvYQKM
...with Hollywood productions such as...
The Hunting Party...
4_y9_WuUIr4
...or Behind Enemy Lines...
vXuAy_dLAwg
...not to mention the numerous other Hollywood movies that demonize whichever group that is deemed sufficiently anti-American. ;)
But those movies rarely raise such a controversy.