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BLOOD LIBEL: 2 Israeli Filmmakers Spark Wave Of Antisemitism; Israel Mulls Revoking Their Citizenship
September 14, 2026

The “NAZA” documentary by two Israeli filmmakers, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, has stirred an international antisemitic uproar and reignited the wave of accusations against Israel and the IDF over the war in the Gaza Strip after winning the Jury Prize at the closing ceremony of the 83rd Venice Film Festival on the first day of Rosh Hashanah. “NAZA” is an acronym for the Hebrew words “נזק אגבי” – collateral damage. The documentary makes libelous accusations against Israel, claiming that the IDF deliberately calculated its strikes in Gaza during the war to kill as many civilians as possible using an AI-assisted tool called the “Lavender” system. One interviewee claimed that the IDF approved a strike that was estimated to kill 500 civilians, a claim the IDF firmly denies. The documentary, which was filmed on Tel Aviv rooftops during the war in Gaza, features [anonymous] interviews with what it claims are 24 IDF soldiers purportedly serving in Unit 8200. READ MORE

FREE PRESS Haviv Rettig Gur: Hold Your Applause for the New Gaza Documentary Start with the question of civilian casualties. The online conversation about the film—as distinct from the film’s own claims—is replete with shock and horror at the finding that the IDF calculated the estimated number of civilian deaths before each strike. According to the usual Israel critics, this shows that the resulting deaths amounted to deliberate murder. It’s almost impossible to overstate how clownishly (and intentionally) wrong this claim is. International humanitarian law requires those planning an attack to assess foreseeable civilian harm and take feasible precautions to avoid or minimize it. You can’t assess proportionality in relation to the expected military advantage of a strike—as required by law—without that calculation.

JPOST Israeli filmmaker of ‘NAZA’ under scrutiny over longstanding ties to Hamas-linked activist Israeli filmmaker Yuval Avraham has a longstanding relationship with Hamas-linked Palestinian journalist and activist Ahmed Alnaouq, investigative journalist Eitan Fischberger first reported Sunday…Culture and Sports Minister Miki Zohar said he would seek to revoke Abraham and Szor’s Israeli citizenship, accusing the filmmakers of committing an “act of treason against the state.”