By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz/Israel 365 News
September 14, 2026
As a legal matter, Zohar does not have the authority to revoke citizenship on his own; Israeli law allows it only in narrow circumstances involving treason or espionage, and any such action would require further government and legal proceedings.
Writing in JNS, Fiamma Nirenstein, a senior research fellow at the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs, drew directly on her own reporting from Gaza to challenge the film’s account. She described visiting IDF command tents at Tze’elim, where officers explained how strike decisions are issued in real time to protect both soldiers and civilians, and meeting the military lawyers who determine under international law whether a target is lawful. “Never in the history of warfare has an army done so much to try to protect the civilian population of its enemy,” she wrote, calling the anonymous accusations in “Naza” “one of the oldest weapons in the arsenal of antisemitism: a blood libel.”
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