012 | Finding Omer | Escape And Control

Jon Ronson tracks down Omer Gershon.
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With Jon Ronson's Escape and Control series coming to an end, it was time to make one more attempt at finding Omer Gershon, the actor who appeared in a YouTube video claiming to have experienced homophobia from the Free Gaza Movement. How did he get involved? Why did he make the video? These questions and more are addressed when Jon Ronson finds Omer Gershon in Tel Aviv.

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Escape & Control is an online documentary series in which internationally acclaimed journalist and filmmaker Jon Ronson (Adventures with Extremists, The Men Who Stare At Goats and The Psychopath Test) turns his attentions to the Internet.

It can sometimes feel like we're creating a new kind of democracy online, where we control and regulate each other instead of being told how to behave by those in authority. But there are people out there who don't like this idea at all. So they want to come up with ways to control it.

Sometimes maybe even secret ways...

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Written and Directed by Jon Ronson
Music by Jeffrey Lewis
Filmed, edited and produced by Remy Lamont
Produced by Lucy Greenwell

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  News & Politics

[00cm]

It's over? But you've barely scratched the surface! :(

[dogagas]

The man is clearly lying, neither him or his friend ever called the Free Gaza Movement, and no homosexual was ever publicly skewered in Iran, its just Israeli propaganda used to justify their oppression of the indigenous population of Palestine. Not to say that their isn't abuse towards minorities in Arab and Muslim countries, there is. But two wrongs don't make a right. Abuse must be fought everywhere, whether its the Iranian government towards gays or the Israeli government toward Palestinians

[DJogdog]

I clicked on this vid thinking it was a couple of idiots wearing weird masks...WTF IS OMER!?

[x2Ice2x]

quack. quackquack. quack?

[welaughindoors91]

uh huh okay omer whatever you say

[citizenjlk]

haha

[CranborneMan]

Omer...phobic

[t77thy]

Creepy ad is creepy

[DriscolDevil]

People (homosexuals included) are killed in both. Israel just has more power to cover it up or change the story.

I'm not taking sides, just saying both sides are ignorant power mongers. Israeli police using kids as human shields and Muslims killing innocent people with bombs. If there was a god all of these monsters would be destroyed. If they were only killing eachother I could care less but both sides seem content with killing the innocent.

[Avey Owyns]

Indeed...

...the fact is, homosexuals live in peace in Israel, while homosexuals are killed in Islamic countries. Which do you prefer?