The folks in charge of the Toronto International Film Festival now claim they were never going to prevent the screening of a documentary that tells the truth about Hamas’ horrific Oct. 7, 2023, terror attacks — but the disclaimers are so hedged (and dishonest) that you still can’t be sure the show will go on.
First and foremost is the absurd excuse that TIFF’s lawyers supposedly thought the filmmaker needed “legal clearance” to use clips of the savagery as filmed and livestreamed by the terrorists on their GoPros.
That is, permission from Hamas to use footage of the terrorists mauling women and slaughtering innocents.
Nonsense: Several other movies have already used such footage; one of them, “We Will Dance Again,” won an Emmy in June!
Rather, this was obviously a wormy way