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Dear internet: Having Jews in movies isn’t ‘Zionist propaganda’

JL;DR SUMMARY PJ Grisar critiques the modern tendency to misinterpret Jewish references in films as Zionist propaganda, highlighting the issue with examples like the recent film "Marty Supreme." A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Jewish CultureZionismJewish RepresentationPolitical BiasFilm CriticismBlazing SaddlesArt InterpretationMedia LiteracyMarty Supreme

Places mentioned

Palestinian Territories
"Last year, The Brutalist, was mired in a debate about whether or not its subplot about the newly formed Jewish state was an endorsement or indictment of national ambitions in the Levant."
Israel
"A Letterboxd review is terse in its description: if the spiritually Israeli term was a movie."
Sudan
"Everything, here, being unrelated atrocities in Sudan, Congo and Nigeria."
Congo, The Democratic Republic of the
"Everything, here, being unrelated atrocities in Sudan, Congo and Nigeria."
Nigeria
"Everything, here, being unrelated atrocities in Sudan, Congo and Nigeria."

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