By Ilana Mercer
September 29, 2026
NAZA film producers ought to have taken down names.
NAZA producers should have deposed the serial killers as a police officer would depose a criminal.
NAZA producers then should have handed the footage, not to the Venice Film Festival, but to The Hind Rajab Foundation ~ilana
The NAZA documentary presents a particularly galling production and specter.
The creators of NAZA are the +972 Magazine, a very good Israeli outfit, with the backing of the not-so-good British Guardian.
The way I would distill the entire extravaganza is that NAZA has given us a glimpse of the Eichmanns of Israel, but under the protection of anonymity. In NAZA, the Israeli film makers have, I would further emphasize, not uncovered, but very publicly-and, for a mainstream award-interviewed the IDF's mezzanine-level managers of mass murder, the Eichmanns of Israel, anon, and for a prize.
To sum-up in the briefest way from the wordy newsletter I got from the creators, the NAZA documentary constitutes a series of anonymized interviews with a certain select number of IDF terrorists (who are mischaracterized as "soldiers"). These "soldiers" are part of a genocide machine, we are told, with which nearly an entire Jewish-Israeli society has complied.
Like we didn't already know.
In particular, the NAZA production exposes, to quote, "a very different kind of Israeli soldier: the intelligence officers considered Israel's 'best and brightest.' They tend to be secular, upper-middle-class, and [they] see themselves as liberal. It is these individuals - sitting behind screens."
Again, like we never heard of Unit 8200 (members of which are prized employees in the American technology industry).
And like we need to go deeper into the psyches of the serial killers who live free, are nowhere on the lam; and are not fleeing justice.
In other words, the NAZA documentary directors seem to suggest they have worked a so-called "original angle" to the genocide of Palestine, the land and its people.
The Israeli producers walked away with a Venice Film Festival award, which they accepted.
The fakery of it is that, on paper, the Guardian, backers of this vulgar production, still calls the genocide and extermination in Palestine ongoing, a "bombing campaign." However, now that it's safer, and the genocide has been accomplished, the Guardian is inching closer to the reality. Vicariously, at least.
I further quote from the VulGuardian:
"The film received a nearly 25-minute standing ovation after its screening," which was called a record, "for length of applause not just at Venice, but at any major film festival"
The +972 Magazine, as I said, is a different matter. I like it and I follow their investigative work as well as the Hebrew version. They employ Palestinians and they do excellent work.
And that's where it should have stopped!
Because this award is worse than unseemly. Few things are tackier and more tasteless than being Jewish-Israeli or Jewish and taking home a prize for working an angle on a genocide in which members of your group are implicated.
Most important, and I wearily repeat what I wrote in a 2025 essay last September: Palestinian have done this work.
I quote from my " Gaza Genocide: The Coverup Begins. Johnny-Come-Lately Journos & Politicos Start Covering Keister":
"Palestinian journalists are the greatest journalists to have lived and died on the job. Palestinian truth-tellers have been documenting their own demise so as to bring us The Truth, nothing but the manifestly obvious Truth. And, they are being disappeared by their moral and professional inferiors."
I went on to finger "The MIA Morgan Media, in other words, the Piers Morgan, Missing-In-Action Media," for dereliction and complicity. Of course, I'm not placing the +972 Magazine in the category of the MIA Morgan Media, the Guardian included. Never.
However, with the acceptance of an award from the global media-entertainment-industrial-complex, for a documentary on Gaza and their serial-killer countrymen-these Israeli creators have become part of the International Imperial Media Complex:
In other words, NAZA creators risk joining the Imperial, media-entertainment-industrial-complex, which shares in the loot or aspires to share in the loot, in the form of accolades, absolutions, or other rewards undeserved.
For you don't receive rewards for doing your duty.
At this point, it is 100 percent fair to point out the following:
"Ilana, you are Jewish. You have been bearing witness in your own work to genocide since 2023. How are you different?"
Fair points all.
Consider: You'd never see my work receive awards (the thought made me chuckle, not once but twice. See for yourself ). And not because we here in the truly dissident space are not the best the country has to offer. We are.
But, but, because, first, we tease out the finer details. In the truly dissident space, we say things that are unacceptable even in the alternative media space, and would get you arrested across the Western perpetrator block.
An example is my own three-part essay series on the artificially enforced dichotomy- termed bifurcation-between Zionism and Judaism. (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3.)
My obligation, as an American, a Canadian, a South African; as a human being, and as someone who was born Jewish, is to burn up the pixelated pages on the issue of our time, genocide.
It is our duty to use our gifts to that end, for Palestinians.
Further: In my work, I defer mostly to Palestinian sources, actually, for no other reason than that they are the best. I've learned what I know from leading Palestinians as well as from honorary Palestinians, who have always done this work.
In the unlikely event that my work on Palestine (to make a book, please God), were ever to be featured even by the independent podcast space (the promised second chuckle )-any financial benefits or accolades will go to Palestine and to Palestinians.
My charities, listed on my website (scroll down to " Charities"), these charities are for Palestinians. They redound to Palestinian welfare and to... animal welfare, including to Solala, a Gaza-based animal rescue, whose saintly proprietor Israel had murdered.
The last time this Unz Review writer was invited to give a public address was in 2025. It was at the invitation of my long-time friend, Dr. Tom DiLorenzo. The address I gave at the Mises Institute's War Revisionism conference was titled " The Real Israel Vs Hasbara History."
I ended this address by expressing disgust at the specter of books hitting the market, at the time, which, to quote, were "more about Israeli and Jewish anguish than about their victims." ( LISTEN .)
Verbatim:
"Books have now been written, more about Israeli and Jewish anguish than about the victims. Being Jewish after Gaza is one. Israel's theocracy. Israel's moral and military degeneration. Israel's looming collapse. When did it begin. Right wing, left wing. Why, why, why. Everyone is beating on breast about Israel.
An apt response are the words of a character from Southern literature: 'Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn!'
And neither should you worry about the perpetrators of genocide-
Only to the extent that punishment is exacted upon Israel for what it has done to Palestinians. That reparations and restitution are extracted from Israel in perpetuity for Palestinians."
This was in May of 2025. As of September 2026, Jewish and Israeli voices are still everywhere dominant.
What should the NAZA Israeli award-winners have done, instead?
FIRST, don't enter your valuable work into a competition.
SECOND, Don't put the serial killers on the comfortable journalistic couch to plumb the depths of their deformed psyches.
With journalistic psychoanalysis and exposure, you are inviting a certain degree of sympathy.
Not unlike therapy, going deep with mass-murdering serial killers suggests something other than what it is:
What is it ? Bestial darkness, unalloyed evil, fiendishness, irredeemable cruelty and inhumanity.
Instead, NAZA was putting on the journalistic couch the greatest evil in the solar system: individuals, representing very many more, who've operated their butchery in Gaza with barbaric gaiety.
Not once, in the heat of the moment, but for three years. Ongoing.
In short, I don't fucking care about the nauseating innards and entrails of the SS IDF. And neither should you.
If you do, you should not!
INSTEAD, NAZA producers ought to have taken down names.
NAZA producers should have deposed the serial killers as a police officer would depose a criminal.
NAZA film producers then should have handed the footage, not to the Venice Film Festival, but to The Hind Rajab Foundation, whose volunteers are doing the work the International Law has refused to do.
This remarkable group will use the genius of its legal volunteers to put the Eichmanns of Israel in the dock, in the Hague.
Or, at the very least, to ensure that the Eichmanns of Israel never gain easy entry to any country again. I don't want such neighbors. I suggest neither do you.
So, in future, cross-examine Israel's Eichmanns, in private, then in The Hague, in public. Tell us about your findings, but don't platform the perpetrators, anon in film, or on podcast.
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