Why Israel Fears This Searing New Documentary

The New York Times ^ | Sept. 18, 2026 | Michelle Goldberg

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Israel is treating the new documentary “NAZA,” by the Israeli filmmakers Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, less like bad publicity than a national security crisis.

Eyal Zamir, chief of staff of the Israel Defense Forces, pledged to use “every tool at our disposal” against the documentary, which features anonymous interviews with 24 intelligence officers and soldiers, most involved in remote strikes in Gaza. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called for legislation that would let the state strip Abraham and Szor of their citizenship. Israel’s culture minister has asked the Interior Ministry to investigate them for treason. Activists and staff members from the far-right party of Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir protested outside Szor’s parents’ house, where a speaker called for Abraham and Szor to be executed and their families’ homes demolished, as often happens to the homes of Palestinians.

The official calls for persecution of Abraham and Szor, who previously made the Oscar-winning documentary “No Other Land” with two Palestinian filmmakers, seem strategically unwise, since they’re spurring heightened interest in “NAZA.” A press screening I went to on Wednesday, at New York’s 268-seat Walter Reade Theater, was at capacity, and I was told to arrive a half-hour early to get a seat. This is, in my experience, very unusual for documentaries of any sort, even those that, like “NAZA,” win the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival.

After seeing it, I can understand why Israel finds it so threatening. Its subjects described factory-scale targeting, enabled by artificial intelligence, in which little effort was made to avoid enormous numbers of civilian casualties. “The goal was quantity, not quality,” said one of the speakers. According to the sources in the film, the military chose to target...

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[Fledermaus]

NYT just hate Jooos

[SaveFerris]

Yeah

[TheThirdRuffian]

It’s feared because it’s fictional blood libel that will go around the world and spread hatred based on its lies.

[jacknhoo]

Typical NYT anti-Semitic propaganda.

[dfwgator]

Did they get Leni Riefenstahl to make it?

[Mi-kha-el]

Unlikely. Leni Riefenstahl made a pro-Germany propaganda documentary, these useful Jew kapos made an anti-Israel propaganda documentary.

[ComputerGuy]

Why is the leading rag in Hymie Town so anti-Israel?

[faithhopecharity]

The ny slimes is at it again. No surprise.

[Ronaldus Magnus III]

Why is the leading rag in Hymie Town so anti-Israel?

Hate is easy, especially when you wake up every day hating yourself.

Hating the Jooozz automatically appeals to The Party Of Hate, The Party Of Death. DemocRATs/DemoKKKrats are right in sync with the Islamofacists. They both desire that there were no Jooozz.....anywhere.

First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people. Christians are next.

If they were ever successful, they would then turn on each other. Sunni vs Shiite. Haters gonna hate.

[bray]

Hitler was their Man of the Year after they knew about the Gulags and camps.

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Eyal Zamir, chief of staff of the Israel Defense Forces, pledged to use “every tool at our disposal” against the documentary, which features anonymous interviews with 24 intelligence officers and soldiers, most involved in remote strikes in Gaza.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called for legislation that would let the state strip Abraham and Szor of their citizenship. Israel’s culture minister has asked the Interior Ministry to investigate them for treason.

Activists and staff members from the far-right party of Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir protested outside Szor’s parents’ house, where a speaker called for Abraham and Szor to be executed and their families’ homes demolished, as often happens to the homes of Palestinians.

Bears repeating. And pondering.

[montag813]

Searing = Lying.

There's now evidence the filmmakers paid for false "data" and fabricated testimonies.

[dfwgator]

This one?

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>> Why is the leading rag in Hymie Town so anti-Israel?

“Hymie Town”? Did you mean “Ragheadville” maybe? Name has changed

[PGR88]

NYT just hate Jooos

It's certainly does not seem organic.

Like many of the political narratives NY Times pushes, it seems planned, contrived and organized by some higher power, and fed through the woke, controlled, media network, down to their vast activist street network.

[Merrick]

Jews are certainly not above criticism and they are not perfect in all their actions. But I’ve seen a few reviews of this material and from what I’ve seen it’s 90% made up BS. The usual, “well, Habib said it, so it must be true.”

[Merrick]

I think you mean Hitler was their Man of the Year even though they knew about the camps, and Stalin was their Man of the Year even though they knew about the Gulags and starving Ukraine.

[Eli Kopter]

IT IS NOT A DOCUMENTARY. IT IS A REWRITE OF HISTORY ALONG THE LINES OF A “60 MINUTES” REWRITE. It is the left’s attempt to rewrite the history when the Iranian Surrogate Army in Gaza kidnapped, raped, tortured, murdered, and kept out of the sunlight for nearly two years. I have met with and talked with a few of the hostages and I have seen the film of the barbarity of these animals, yet, the left is determined to erase that and implant their own narrative of “Genocide”. NO ONE TAKES MORE CARE TO KEEP COLLATERAL DAMAGE TO A MINIMUM THAN ISRAEL. DO YOU HONESTLY THINK THAT THE IRANIANS AND THEIR SURROGATES IN LEBANON, GAZA, AND YEMEN ‘MINIMIZE’ CASUALTIES TO CIVILIANS? THEY OPERATE FROM THE SCHOOLS, MOSQUES, HOSPITALS, ETC., BECAUSE THEY KNOW THE ISRAELIS WILL NOT ATTACK THEM THERE.