Canadian-Jewish filmmaker slams TIFF's spotlight on Tel Aviv

Elle Flanders speaks out about the Toronto Film Festival's choice of Tel Aviv for their City to City programming. Flanders is a Toronto-based filmmaker who grew up in Israel. Her work focuses on the Israel and Palestine, and includes the award-winning 'Zero Degrees of Separation', a feature documentary about gay and lesbian Israelis and Palestinians in cross-border relationships. She has recently returned to Toronto after a year spent living in Ramallah.

Flanders was speaking at an event called 'Celebrating solidarity: A different spotlight.'

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[HeadacheLittle]

Who is the man on Elle's left hand side? I've seen him at most of our events inclusing Gay Pride?? Anyone know?

[rabbletv]

That's John Greyson, the Toronto filmmaker who pulled his film from the Toronto International Film Festival. Subscribe to our channel, and you'll get a notification soon when we upload his statement, entitled "An Open Letter to Robert Lantos."

[righthand48]

1,500 Sign Letter Protesting Toronto Film Festival Decision to Spotlight Tel Aviv

[mbrv]

not in the same country which fights with Gaza - Tel aviv is ABOVE wars , it is a city of love , culture , art,

music,parties , gays , straights . it is a city of jews , arabs , Israelies and palestinians - a city of peace. and exactly

because of that - the celebration of Tel aviv has to continue no matter what happens in israel - stopping the celebration

of tel aviv's 100th birthday would be a stab in the back of all those values related to tel aviv mentioned above.

[thenewrapstyle]

obviously she's just mad at mommy and daddy....she seems like a sad and angry person. hope she finds some inner peace at some point....

[pookpooki]

We see yet another example of a Jewish academic trying to look politically correct and generate media publicity. I have served in the Israeli army and I can tell you that Israel only acts in deterrence ontowards those forces which seek its annihilation.

Israel is a just and law abiding country which is a part of the international community. It does not need this, particularly from within.

[CanadianSSKIN]

I guess she is what you call a Jewish Nazi. My uncle who was a nazi officer remembers working with Jewish Nazi's.

Jewish Nazi's would colloborate with the Nazi's and give information to the officers of where Jews were hiding, sort of double agents.

They were just as horrible as the Nazi's, probably worse.

I guess Elle is a Jewish Nazi'. that man sitting beside her is a muslim who I have seen at Nazi rallys, holding signs that say to slaughter Jews.

Elle what a joke

[CanadianSSKIN]

@HeadacheLittle

Elle flanders and John Greyson are taking jobs away from the Nazi's. Stop taking our jobs!

[gyarkoni2]

Ms. Flanders, I invite you to read that little speach of yours in its entirety, including the part that you are a LESBIAN, in the loverly city of Gaza. What do you think their reaction would be to you? I say, you may not live to tell us about it! Maybe then you will understand why TIFF chose to celebrate a city like TEL AVIV....stop fighting other people's wrongful cause!

[gyarkoni2]

This wo(man) is a typical example of an ignorant, misinformed, "liberal" buffoon that believes they are speaking for one cause, but has no idea what they are really getting themselves into. Ms. Flanders, I invite you to read that little speach of yours in its entirety, including the part that you are a LESBIAN, in the loverly city of Gaza. Maybe then you will understand why TIFF chose to celebrate a city like TEL AVIV....stop fighting other people's wrongful cause!

[writeDVD]

These protesters completely ignore the REAL Apartheid policies of Hamas and most Muslim societies where Jews are not allowed and Christians are hardly tolerated.

[widaadally2007]

Yea and less that 10 israeli died from hamas ridiculously homemade rocket which only big firecrackers. From 2000 to 2009, more than 800 civilians were masacred in gaza by the idf. During the massacre in gaza, more than 1000 civilians were bombed including 500 children. Israeli bombed schools, hospitals, universities, orphanage, babies, UN facilities, cement factories, kindergarden, pharmacies, shops, ambulances, paramedics, doctors, nurses, journalists, food warehouses. IDF is a terorist org 2

[widaadally2007]

Only from international pressure.