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At the 82nd Venice Film Festival, thousands of pro-Hamas protesters, organized by the group Venice4Palestine, appeared just as the Festival opened, causing mayhem as they marched through the city and screamed their demand that an invitation to Israeli actress Gal Gadot be rescinded. Her crime was being an Israeli, and not only that, but an Israeli who refused to criticize her embattled country for its war of self-defense against the terror group Hamas. More on the protesters, who can now chalk up another victory in their propaganda war against the Jewish state, can be found here: “Thousands of pro-Palestine protesters gather at Venice Film Festival to put spotlight back on Gaza,” by Mathilda Heller, Jerusalem Post, September 1, 2025:
Thousands of pro-Palestinian demonstrators congregated in Venice on Saturday during the 82nd Venice International Film Festival to protest the war in Gaza.
The protest was organized by Venice4Palestine, a coalition of Italian film professionals and international film professionals.
Ahead of the march, the group said it wanted to “break the silence on the systematic violence by the Israeli army and on the complicity of governments just as the media attention will be focused on the Film Festival.”
The pro-Hamas demonstrators in Venice wanted “to break the silence” on the “systematic violence by the Israeli army”? Why, there is no subject that has received such round-the-clock attention, throughout the world’s media, than the war in Gaza and the putative crimes of the IDF. The group in Venice simply wanted to add its voice to the vast chorus of people screaming their rage, fueled by an anti-Israel animus so deep that it long ago descended into naked antisemitism.
The week before, the group wrote an open letter to the Venice Film Festival saying “We – activists and workers in the film, media and news fields – believe that for once, the show must stop: We must interrupt the flow of indifference and open a path to awareness.”…
What “flow of indifference” is that? Our giddy globe is full of anti-Israel marches, manifestos, strikes, all focusing on the crimes of the “ethnic-cleansing genocidal” Jewish state. No other subject receives such constant coverage.
Venice4Palestine also urged the festival to withdraw its invitations to Israeli actress Gal Gadot.
Italian actress Tecla Insolia told Corriere that excluding Gadot “is the minimum” and did not count as “discrimination.”…
So preventing the appearance of an actress because she is Jewish and Israeli does not constitute, according to actress Tecla Insolia, “discrimination.”
Gal Gadot refuses to denounce her own government for waging a war it did not start and did not want, on a terror group that has promised to repeat the atrocities — rapes, tortures, mutilations, murders — that it carried out on October 7, 2023 “again and again.” For this she is to be consigned to the outer darkness.
The director of the festival, Alberto Barbera, later confirmed to Variety that Gadot would not be attending.
He also told Deadline on Sunday that he offered the protesters the opportunity to send a delegation to the red carpet, but they declined and did not enter the festival grounds.
“They didn’t want to interfere with the festival,” he said.
The protesters didn’t “want to interfere with the festival”? But that was the whole point of their demonstrations — to interfere with the festival so that the Israeli actress Gal Gadot would not be allowed to appear. And those demonstrators won; despite her earlier invitation, Gadot will not now be taking part in the festival.
Was Gal Gadot’s invitation rescinded by the Festival’s director, Alberto Barrera, or did she conclude that her presence, and the mayhem that was sure to ensue, would simply be too disruptive and would take attention away from the Festival’s offerings? Either way, she is owed an apology by the Festival for her withdrawal. It’s one more victory for the legions of pro-Hamas Europeans, one more defeat for decency.
Like the Oscars a totally rigged Awards Shows and the rest of them all
I’m sure they also called on Hamas to free the remaining hostages and to allow the free flow of food in Gaza. Right??
Israel is bringing thousands of tons of food to Gaza. Food is coming from all over the world. Hamas is the ones stealing it for themselves.
Pretty sure Karl was being sarcastic…
Pro hamas Europeans? In our lifetime “” Europeans will cease to be , and there will simply be left prohamas hamas. Sad
Gal Gadot should wear what happened to her as a badge of honor.
I hope the Hamasimeans wreck every street fair and festival so the world sees what idiotic morons they are.
The word ‘Fascism’, as I have read, comes from the Italian ‘fascismo’ which means ‘our group’ or “you aren’t welcome around here’.
So here’s my question,. did fascism come roaring back to life in Italy and Western Europe, or was it always there to this degree?
The human idiots strike again as they wave the flag of their subservience to evil.
Do these ignorant fools know that artists are being genocided in all sharia ruled countries?
Gal is gorgeous – the “protestors” are ugly and miserable. Venice now off my list of cities to go to. Too bad, as i used to like it . . .
Thank you for your article, it’s always a relief to read writer who exposes the criminals, while our medias of propaganda are publishing with joy the Jew-hatred that dominates the Art World. We can say that the ideology of Antonio Gramsci has won in the Western Cultural World, swallowed by the right wings in general, which is odd in a way, and in another one not as David Horowitz explains that they were to busy working, which is normal when almost nobody learns the truth at schools and in the medias.
Also, a Palestinian movie received the longest ever standing ovation……over 20 minutes. The brain death is real.
As the World turns, once again to further genocide, which side will you, as citizens of the world, join? Our world has become smaller and smaller, closer together BUT further apart. Senseless when you say it, but how the fact smart with reality. Jump on a train, take plane and you are there, no longer ocean voyages as our ancestors. Happenings are far reaching, consequences severe, we must step back decide where to contribute our resources, our assistance, and support. Is it progress or denial?