Times of Israel: 'The Campaign' documentary is "in-depth, smart, insightful...a hefty piece of investigative reporting"

"The Campaign, based on Warren Kinsella’s The Hidden Hand, weaves in-depth interviews with investigative reporting to reveal a social media movement that spread anti-Israel messaging, fueling antisemitism...The Campaign, looks not at the massacre itself, but at the orchestrated social media campaign in its wake that the film alleges has fuelled global antisemitism and anti-Israel sentiment worldwide.

The 93-minute documentary, directed by Kari Hollend and Cristina Bishai and narrated by Canadian lawyer and author Warren Kinsella, was screened on August 19 during the recent National Library’s Docu.Text film festival.

The film, subtitled Disinformation in a Time of War, was made in tandem with Kinsella’s latest book, The Hidden Hand, and weaves in-depth interviews with media, political, and diplomatic experts together with Kinsella and Hollend’s reportage in the region to describe the Hamas propaganda campaign in the immediate aftermath of the October 7, 2023, attack.

It’s a hefty piece of investigative reporting, and it also serves as Kinsella and Hollend’s way of showing the dramatic shifts in public opinion emanating from Canada, where they both live.

The Campaign opens with a brief, personal look at Kinsella, a Catholic by birth, who shares a story from his youth as a Canadian punk rocker that brought him into a brief conflict with neo-Nazis, to show his lifelong distaste for campaigns of hatred.

From there, the film expands, showing what happened on October 7 with the Hamas invasion of Israel’s south and the immediate, intensive anti-Israel social media campaign that followed."

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