Tag: #ProphecyNewsWatch

#ProphecyNewsWatch : The film is not the first collaboration between its directors to draw this kind of response.

By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz/Israel 365 News
September 14, 2026

Abraham and Szor previously co-directed “No Other Land” (2024) with Palestinian filmmakers Basel Adra and Hamdan Ballal, a documentary on Israeli demolitions and displacement of Palestinian communities in Masafer Yatta, in Judea and Samaria. That film won the 2025 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature after earlier wins at the Berlin Film Festival, the European Film Academy and the Gotham Awards, but drew the same charge now leveled at “Naza”: that it presents a one-sided account.

Critics writing in the Jewish Journal and for Creative Community for Peace argued the film “demonizes Israelis” by omitting the security rationale behind Israeli policy, noting that Israeli forces thwarted more than 1,000 terror attacks in Judea and Samaria in 2024 alone, and that it gave short shrift to the Hamas massacre of October 7. Zohar attacked that film as well at the time, calling its Oscar win “a sad moment for the world of cinema” and accusing it of “defamation” that “distorts Israel’s image.” Notably, “No Other Land” also drew fire from the opposite direction: the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel opposed the film on “anti-normalization” grounds, objecting to Palestinian and Israeli filmmakers working together at all.

#ProphecyNewsWatch : National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir called the pair “a disgrace and an embarrassment to the entire people of Israel” and told them, “I am certain that your friends, that is to say our enemies Hamas in Gaza, will welcome you with open arms.”

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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#ProphecyNewsWatch : The death of every child is a tragedy.

By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz/Israel 365 News
September 14, 2026

But a terrible war is not genocide.”

Culture Minister Miki Zohar announced he would move to revoke the directors’ Israeli citizenship, calling them “despicable creators” who are “willing to harm their homeland in order to receive applause from antisemites around the world” and accusing them of “an act of treason against the state.”

#ProphecyNewsWatch : The Sounds Of The #Temple Are Returning To #Jerusalem

By PNW Staff
September 17, 2026
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For nearly two thousand years, these were sounds that belonged to the #Bible.

The Temple was gone. The sacrifices had ceased. The priestly service ended. The silver #trumpets associated with Israel’s ancient worship became artifacts of another age.

But on Rosh Hashanah this year, something remarkable happened on the #Temple Mount.

Hundreds of #Jews ascended the mountain. Organized #Jewish #prayer continued there for hours. #Worshippers openly carried prayer books and wore #traditional prayer shawls.

Then the shofar sounded.

And beside it sounded two silver trumpets—recreating a combination of instruments #associated with worship in ancient Jerusalem.

A Temple has not been rebuilt. Sacrifices have not resumed.

But increasingly, people are preparing as though they someday could.
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#ProphecyNewsWatch : Noa Tishby, who briefly served as Israel’s antisemitism envoy, called wearing the pin a “display of Jew-hatred” and noted that the same celebrities were conspicuously not wearing the yellow pins representing the hostages Hamas had taken on October 7.

By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz/Israel 365 News
September 14, 2026

That same ceremony gave its award for Best International Feature to “The Zone of Interest,” whose director, Jonathan Glazer, used his acceptance speech to draw a line from the Holocaust to the war in Gaza, saying his film shows “where dehumanization leads, at its worst.” Glazer went on to serve as an executive producer of “Naza.”

The pattern held at Venice as well. Palestinian flags were visible among the crowd during “Naza’s” 25-minute ovation, a year after Kaouther Ben Hania’s “The Voice of Hind Rajab,” centered on the killing of a six-year-old Palestinian girl and the medics who came to save her, took one of the festival’s top prizes. It is now two consecutive years in which a film built around allegations against Israel has dominated the world’s most prestigious film festival.

Three years after October 7, the pattern is consistent. An anonymous, contested allegation against Israel migrates easily into headlines, into casualty counts and onto the world’s most prominent stages. The documented, verified record of what was done to Israel that day struggles for the same reach, even when, as with “Fauda,” it arrives in the form of the most-watched drama on Netflix.

#ProphecyNewsWatch : Nearly half of the articles that cited IDF data flagged it as unverifiable; only 1 percent did the same for Hamas figures.

By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz/Israel 365 News
September 14, 2026

The study also found that Israel has achieved one of the lowest civilian-to-combatant casualty ratios in modern warfare, roughly 1.4 to 1, compared to figures as high as 5 to 1 in the Iraq War.

That same asymmetry has surfaced repeatedly on the red carpet. At the 2024 Academy Awards, stars including Billie Eilish, Mark Ruffalo and Ramy Youssef wore a red enamel pin distributed by the group Artists4Ceasefire, showing a hand with a black heart inside a red circle, meant to call for a cease-fire in Gaza and the release of the hostages.

To many Jewish observers, the image evoked something else: the 2000 lynching of two IDF reservists in Ramallah, in which a mob displayed blood-soaked hands from a window to a cheering crowd below, one of the defining images of the Second Intifada.

#ProphecyNewsWatch : A Wider Pattern: Bias in the Numbers and on the Red Carpet

By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz/Israel 365 News
September 14, 2026

The gap between the reception “Naza” received in Venice and the substance of the IDF’s rebuttal is not an isolated case. It fits a pattern researchers have documented across the reporting and the culture surrounding the Gaza war.

A Spring 2025 study in Middle East Quarterly by Andrew Fox of the Henry Jackson Society and Tatiana Glezer of Fifty Global examined coverage of Gaza casualty figures across eight major outlets, including CNN, the BBC, The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Guardian, Reuters and the Associated Press. The study found that only 3 percent of the outlets cited specific figures for combatant casualties, and that Hamas-supplied figures were cited in 100 percent of the publications sampled while Israeli figures appeared in only 4 percent.
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#ProphecyNewsWatch : The viewer specifically cited Kfir Bibas, kidnapped at nine months old and later murdered in captivity alongside his four-year-old brother Ariel, and fathers doused in kerosene and set on fire while their attackers laughed.

By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz/Israel 365 News
September 14, 2026

“No film or television series can truly recreate the horror of such a pogrom,” the viewer concluded. “‘Fauda’ is a fictional work, but it draws inspiration from real events. October 7 was not a fictional story; it was a real tragedy, and the victims deserve to be remembered as events truly occurred.”

Not every reaction was favorable. A viewer from Libya argued the season presented “a biased narrative” that “maligns Palestinians and distorts their struggle,” and one reviewer criticized the October 7 episodes as constructed “too much like an action sequence,” calling the approach “exploitative even if meant as a tribute,” and noted that the season leaves the toll of the two-year war in Gaza almost entirely off screen. Coverage in Qatar’s Al-Araby Al-Jadeed and in Yemen accused cast members, including Amedi, of having “participated in the war of genocide against Gaza.”
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#ProphecyNewsWatch : Viewers from countries with no direct stake in the conflict described being shaken by what they saw.

By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz/Israel 365 News
September 14, 2026

An Israeli social media influencer wrote that her feed had filled with shocked, sympathetic posts from Dutch and German viewers. A Brazilian cartoonist wrote that the episodes were “far more difficult to watch than a fictional drama,” in part because he knew the Israeli cast and crew were recreating events that had struck their own families, friends and colleagues directly. A viewer from Texas called episodes seven and eight “simply unforgettable.” Others described crying through the episodes or being unable to speak afterward.

One viewer in India argued that the season actually understated the reality of October 7 rather than exaggerating it. “The series offers only a small glimpse into the atrocities of October 7,” the viewer wrote, noting that it did not depict women who were raped and burned alive, families tied together and dismembered, or the killing of pregnant women and children.
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#ProphecyNewsWatch : The Response

By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz/Israel 365 News
September 14, 2026

Within a day of its Netflix release, Season 5 ranked seventh among the platform’s 10 most-watched shows in 43 countries. It later reached No. 1 in Lebanon, No. 2 in Jordan, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, No. 3 in Qatar, Oman and Kuwait, and No. 4 in Egypt, despite a Lebanese boycott campaign that has previously accused Netflix of violating the country’s anti-Israel law by carrying the series. Episodes seven and eight each received a 9.3 rating on IMDb.
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