Ethical Problems with Representations of the Holocaust and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in the Film Forgiveness

In our postmodern era in which “truth” splits into interest groups and is partial, relative, and good for the present moment, Udi Aloni’s film Forgiveness had its premiere. It was an era of the “politically correct,” which gave falsehood its honored place so as not to hurt the “other’s” feelings, an age of repression of thought instead of pluralism and multiplicity of opinion. This is the age that continued and apparently will perpetuate the narrative of its predecessors—the shared hatred of Jews and its new form, hatred of Zionism and Zionists, as well as the critical and dissonant self-hatred of Jews who despise the concept of
the “Chosen People” yet use this term each time they want to define themselves as human peace seekers.