Defamation: Anti Semitism The Movie - (2009)

The film says that in 2007, the ADL reported a spike in antisemitism, claiming that there were 1,500 anti-Semitic incidents in the United States, yet when Shamir contacts the ADL they can only list minor incidents such as websites with inflammatory comments, letters from employees denied time off for a Jewish holiday, or people offended by a cop's use of the word "Jew". A case presented concerns about a group of African American boys, ages between 10 and 12, who pelted a school bus with rocks, breaking two windows. Filmmaker Yoav Shamir states in the beginning of the film that as an Israeli he has never experienced antisemitism himself and wants to learn more about it since references to antisemitism in countries all over the world are common in the Israeli media.
Defamation is a 2009 documentary film by award-winning Israeli filmmaker Yoav Shamir. Defamation follows a group of Israeli high school students on a class trip to Poland where they tour Auschwitz, as well as a number of other notable Holocaust locations which gives rise to more questions than answers about Israel's "official narrative". It examines antisemitism and, in particular, the way perceptions of antisemitism affect Israeli and U.S. politics. A major focus of the film is the Anti-Defamation League. Defamation won Best Documentary Feature Film at the 2009 Asia Pacific Screen Awards.
The film examines whether anti-Semitic has become an all purpose label for anyone who criticizes Israel and the idea that some Jews' preoccupation with the past (i.e., the Holocaust) is preventing progress today. Shamir decided to make Defamation after a critic of an earlier film accused him of antisemitism.