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Here’s the story behind a new film, “October 8,” which debuts in theaters today, Friday, March 14.
From Fox News: Documentary filmmaker Wendy Sachs was with her daughter Lexi at the University of Wisconsin-Madison when she first learned of the October 7, 2023, Hamas terror attack in Israel.
“The images coming out of Israel, babies and children, young people, grandparents being murdered. Their murders were being livestreamed, being put on Facebook. The videos from Telegram of Nova Festival, young people being taken hostage and kidnaped into Gaza,” Sachs recalled to Fox News Digital.
But when she saw the surge of antisemitism erupt on college campuses across the country in the following days, she knew she had to do something.
“October 8, when I saw the protests in Times Square, and then I saw what was happening the next day on October 9, and at Harvard, where more than 30 student groups signed onto a letter blaming Israel on the attack on itself. And then we saw the same thing happen from campus after campus, from Columbia to NYU to Tulane to MIT, Cornell, Penn. It just felt like the world had lost its mind,” she said. “The silence, the dismissal, the denial.”
“And so, by the end of October, I knew that I needed to document what was happening,” she added. “And that’s when I wrote a treatment for the film.”
What resulted was “October 8,” a documentary examining the disturbing rise in antisemitism against Jewish college students in our nation’s most elite universities, and the disturbing and nefarious forces driving this phenomenon.
Sachs explains that she interviewed 80 different people while making the documentary, speaking with survivors of the October 7 massacre in Israel, as well as college students, celebrities and politicians.
While trying to learn why so many well-educated young people would suddenly choose to support the Hamas terror group, Sachs discovered a chilling, “well-orchestrated campaign to delegitimize the Jewish state and stigmatize its supporters abroad.”
She voiced shock that Hamas was literally being celebrated as ‘freedom fighters’ instead of the terrorists they are.
Even more alarming, Sachs found recordings of Hamas leaders strategizing about how to infiltrate U.S. “media outlets, universities, and research centers” to make themselves appear favorable to a progressive audience.
One Hamas leader is heard saying, “The Americans… we must address them from a position of rights and justice, and at the same time choose our words well.”
Sachs explained the battle she faced getting her documentary produced, as it was rejected by film festivals. “There is something really insidious happening in the independent film community,” she said.
She would like her film to be used as an education tool in schools to help combat antisemitism.
Below is the interview with Sachs:
Below is the trailer for “October 8,” which will be in theaters starting Friday, March 14.
Earlier this week, the following video was shared on social media, of a Hamas leader calling for pro-Hamas groups at colleges to renew their campus protests, and tells them, “you should be proud of yourselves.”
“We thank the great student flood, which emerged from the American, European and western universities,” the Hamas leader declares, as he tells them to “continue what you started.”
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Here are two examples of a Hamas leader giving directions to college pro-Hamas groups like the one that Mahmoud Khalil was part of at Columbia U to aid in their ‘flood’ terrorist campaign
This is why the Trump admin says they’re coordinating with Hamas pic.twitter.com/v2QC3bzgAk
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