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LAST WEEK I ATTENDED BOSTON'S PREMIER SCREENING OF THE DOCUMENTARY, "Unmasked: Judeophobia". I didn't sleep well that night. Gloria Greenfield, the director and producer, has fashioned a Klieg light that pierces the fog of denial insulating America's comfortable Jews from having to deal with the unpleasantries of the threats gathering against us. Words cannot convey the power of this film to drive home a message so obvious yet so long resisted.
The film opens with Elie Wiesel telling us with crushing sadness that the Jewhatred he assumed had perished with the closing of Auschwitz, is now back.
Yet even that fails to prepare the audience for what follows: 90 minutes of riveting revelations by dozens of the most eloquent scholars and activists of our time, describing the movements and the ideologies that now threaten Jewish life, emanating from the Muslim world, paralleled by leftist Israel-hatred, growing rampantly in Europe and now even reaching our shores.
Anyone who has not known or sensed that there is. a serious problem will be changed by this documentary.
The film does beg a central question: How did people...
