Toronto Film Festival’s October 7 flip-flop reveals prejudice of cultural gatekeepers

Toronto film festival reverses decision to pull Hamas attack documentary following backlash over copyright concerns and accusations of silencing Jewish voices.

Yuval David is an Emmy Award–winning and multiple film festival–winning actor and filmmaker, Jewish and LGBT advocate, advisor and news commentator.

It’s bad enough that October. 7 survivors and their families have been silenced across the world, with the atrocities constantly denied in a new form of Holocaust revisionism. Now, film festivals are trying to silence Jewish voices because October. 7 doesn’t fit their pro-terrorism narrative. This is a major warning call to every major film festival that antisemitism is not acceptable, just as you wouldn’t dare silence a film detailing crimes committed against any other minority.