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Suicidal empathy: Atlanta Jewish Film Festival apologizes over anti-Zionist juror judging human rights films

2026-02-26

Not just the one, either.

[IsraelTimes] Israeli consulate claims evaluator shared antisemitic content, withdraws support from the event after organizers say the decision is irreversible as selections have been finalized

The Atlanta Jewish Film Festival apologized and announced it would review its internal processes after the Israeli consulate withdrew its support over an anti-Zionist juror.

The Israeli Consulate in the Southeastern United States withdrew its support for the annual festival Friday after learning one of the student jurors in the human rights
One man's rights are another man's existential threat.
category "shared antisemitic and anti-Israel content," the consulate said in a statement.

Fire and publicly shame whoever approved him. And never again accept recommendations from whoever put his name forward to the committee.

The film festival acknowledged the consulate’s decision on Friday and issued an apology on Sunday, saying that it "fell short" in assessing jurors.

Not just in assessing jurors. Read on, dear Reader.

"Recent conversations within the Jewish community have made clear that the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival fell short in our internal processes regarding the recent jury matter," the festival said in its Sunday night statement. "This situation has surfaced clear deficiencies, gaps, and adherence issues in our existing organizational processes and policies, including those related to antisemitism, [Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions,] and cultural boycotts."

But the festival said that because the juror selection process had already been finalized, the juror at issue could not be removed ahead of the festival, which runs through March 15.

Bull. Get in a proper juror, look at all the applications again, and if there are new winners, let the old winners be played in a side room. The differences between the two lists should prove educational for all involved.

Neither the festival nor the Israeli consulate named the juror, but local media reporting identified him as Anwar Karim, a film student at Morehouse College and a Spike Lee Fellow at the Gersh Agency.

Spike Lee is a standard issue African-American Jew-hater, which should have been a hint.

Karim’s social media presence and film portfolio include discussion of the war in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
. In one video, a political poem titled "Devil’s Work," Karim raps over news clips and social media videos from Gaza, sometimes preceded by parallel images from the Holocaust. In the same video, he draws in other social justice issues like cobalt mining in Congo and the war on drugs. Images in the video include a photo of the Starbucks logo with bloody Israeli flag stickers, a shrinking Paleostine map, and archival clips of prominent Black and anti-Zionist intellectuals like Angela Davis and Stokely Carmichael.

"As a Jewish film festival, we have a responsibility, particularly at this fraught time, to stand firmly against antisemitism and to affirm the Jewish people’s right to self-determination," the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival said in its Sunday statement.

Yes. But you didn’t. Perhaps you all should fire yourselves.

Karim did not respond to a request for comment.

Consul General Eitan Weiss told Southern Jewish Life that when the consulate saw Karim wearing a green keffiyeh in his festival program photo, they were surprised, did some research on the juror, and gave the festival some time to address the issue before deciding whether to withdraw its support.

Then, in a statement issued on February 20, the festival said it had "concluded that the student could participate appropriately within the structure of our deliberations." The consulate announced its withdrawal the same day.

Rightfully so. “If I am not for myself, who will be for me?” as Hillel the Elder wrote.

Six documentaries are up for the human rights prize, including profiles of Raoul Wallenberg and Henrietta Szold, a chronicle of a sex abuse scandal in an Australian Orthodox community and the history of a Jew who successfully took on Henry Ford’s antisemitism. Two films deal directly with Israel: One tackles ~~child sacrifice~~ abortion there, while the other examines UNRWA, the United Nations
...the Oyster Bay money pit...
agency supporting Paleostinian refugees that Israel says has undermined efforts at peace.

The other two jurors in the human rights category are the executive director of an organization that promotes LGBTQ stories in film and a senior director at the Carter Center, the human rights institute founded by former US president Jimmy Malaise Carter

...only the second worst president ever. Now the third worst, after Obama and Biden...

President Carter also was a Jew hater. And nowadays most alphabet sexuality activists are passionately (and stupidly) are pro-Hamas and anti-Israel. So altogether the Festival organizers are batting a thousand for Jew-haters to judge the submissions for the Jewish festival.

Since the bloody Hamas
Hamas

..one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,...
invasion of southern Israel on October 7, 2023, festivals have become a battleground for activism in the Israel-Gaza war, becoming a point of contention among jurors, panelists, and contestants.

In 2024, an Albany book festival canceled a panel with a Jewish author after two of her co-moderators refused to share the stage with her because of her "Zionist" beliefs.

In January, Australia’s Adelaide Book Festival collapsed entirely after nearly 200 writers said they would boycott the program when a Paleostinian-Australian author who justified "armed struggle" was disinvited from the festival. And this month, the Berlinale film festival was embroiled in tensions after its jury president, the director Wim Wenders, responded to a question about Gaza by rebuffing calls to criticize Israel.

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