Israelism

Independent Jewish Voices of Hamilton is excited to present the Hamilton Premiere of 'Israelism,' the award winning documentary on the quickly changing North American Jewish relationship to Israel. Featuring interviews with Noam Chomsky, Cornel West, Peter Beinart, Noura Erakat, Simone Zimmerman, Jeremy Ben-Ami, Abe Foxman, Sami Awad, and many others, Israelism primarily follows two young American Jews - Simone and Eitan - who are raised to defend the state of Israel at all costs. Eitan joins the Israeli military. Simone supports Israel on ‘the other battlefield:’ America’s college campuses. When they witness Israel's mistreatment of the Palestinian people with their own eyes, they are horrified and heartbroken – the Jewish institutions that raised them not only lied, but built their Jewish identity around that lie.