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on May 18, 2026, 7:23 am
Amusingly, the opening paragraphs are almost a parody of how they find anti-semitism anywhere:
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/may/18/antisemitism-west-son-of-saul-laszlo-nemes-orphan-moulin
We’ve been talking for less than five minutes when I spot the swastika. It’s just above the head of László Nemes, one of Europe’s most acclaimed directors, as he sits in the suite of a London hotel, talking about Orphan, his intensely personal new film that dwells on – among other things – the impact of the Holocaust on the generations that followed. It’s an ancient, Hindu swastika, part of a decorative wall-hanging – but still.
I’m halfway through a question when I notice it. Nemes laughs; of course, he’d seen it immediately. “I wanted to point that out to you,” he says. “It is so funny. Before leaving this room, I will take pictures.” Mind you, he’s had worse. “When I was at the San Sebastián film festival with Son of Saul, they put me in the Mel Gibson room.”
Oh no, poor you; the Mel Gibson room. What next? Blowing up your house with you wife and children in it and then waiting for an ambulance to arrive and blowing that up? No. A non-swastika swastika. The horror! The horror!
Once they off the film puffery, they both start frothing at the mouth:
It takes a while, but eventually he says: “There’s an orgy of antisemitism, an absolute, shameless orgy of antisemitism, overtaking the west.” He describes a clash of two camps, which he calls humanism versus anti-humanism. In the latter comes a brand of identity politics that no longer sees individuals, only groups. It is consumed by a “race obsession” and a “puritan, moralising, self-righteousness” that, he says, has overtaken the cultural and online worlds.
and Freedland joins in and he tries to do the what about Syria/Yemen hasbara talking point with no pushback at all of course and then they finally get to the "YOU'RE HAMAS" drivel:
If any of the big name actors and celebrities who call for cultural boycotts of Israel or protest over Gaza were here, I say, they would surely insist that they were motivated by nothing more than anger at Israel’s conduct, including the killing of 70,000 Palestinians, many of them civilians, in the strip.
“Well, where were they when Bashar al-Assad killed at least 600,000 people in Syria? Where were these people with their beautiful ideas when children [were] in direct need of UN feeding, by the million, in Yemen? The list goes on and on and on. So where were these beautifully moral people then?
“Obviously they prefer to attach themselves to an ideology that’s been around for a long time and that pretends to be humanitarian, but it’s actually not what it purports to be … Had they really cared about the people in this region, they would have revolted against these people being ruled by a totalitarian death cult that’s actually killing its own population and at unprecedented levels.”
I ask who he’s speaking about. It’s Hamas.
“That’s a globalist jihadist ideology, very much aimed at killing Jews.” But, Nemes says, these people don’t care about that, or the killings committed by hideous regimes elsewhere in the Middle East. Only one issue arouses their passion. “There’s this … obsession with Jews.”
He points to the struggles to get distribution for Orphan and how “people [would] ask me about Gaza, instead of, you know, asking about the movie. [They ask] if I signed this or that petition.”
He says it’s “tiring to hear the overclass of Hollywood lecture us morally. You know, from their pools and luxury homes in the Valley and Hollywood hills. Do I really have to listen to millionaires lecture the world about morality? I don’t think anybody wants that.”
Not for one second realising the world might have a problem being lectured on morality by people supporting a state that is committing GENOCIDE and have been an atrocity factory for 80 years. Or realising it's not an "obsession with Jews" it's an obsession with not massacring women and children and pretending you're entitled to do it. Fucking clown.
They can both fuck all the way off.
The corporate media are complicit in the Gaza genocide.
Never forget what they did. Never forgive them for it.![]()
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