Nearly 1,000 people have signed an online petition urging a Brooklyn cinema to cancel screenings of September 5, a film about the 1972 Munich massacre during the Summer Olympics.
Directed by Tim Fehlbaum, the film depicts the terrorist attack carried out by the Palestinian terrorist group Black September, which resulted in the deaths of two Israeli Olympic team members and the subsequent killing of nine hostages, also Israeli athletes. September 5 premiered at the 81st Venice International Film Festival in August 2024 and is slated for screenings this January at the Alamo Drafthouse in Downtown Brooklyn.
A group of New York cinema workers organized the petition, which has gathered over 1,000 signatures. The petition describes the film as “Zionist propaganda” and accuses it of misrepresenting Black September members as “antisemitic terrorists.”
Told from the perspective of an ABC Sports broadcasting team, the movie captures their shift from covering the Olympics to reporting on the unfolding hostage crisis.
“The film is an ahistorical and dehumanising dramatisation of Operation Iqrit and Biram, undertaken by the Black September Organisation at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich in the name of the liberation of 200+ Palestinian prisoners,” the petition claims.
* The Jewish Chronicle contributed to this article.
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