Why do I speak about the destruction of Jewish intelligence and free thought? This story is from the community I grew up in, summering in Woods Hole, MA. (Yes I come from a privileged background). They’re all scientists, many are Jewish. And because of Israel/Palestine movies, this highly-intelligent community is committing an IQ suicide for all to see, it has essentially shut down a political film program in the old firehouse (the one I used to go to dances in, first put the make on a girl in (arm around the shoulder during a showing of Jules and Jim method), played Job in a bad production of Job in).
Oh and yes, I have injected the Jewish angle in the news that follows; because this is a reflection of the orthodoxy within the Jewish community. Believe me, it’s not the oldline gentiles shutting this down. Also, notice the sequence here. Alarm, demands for special notification, "false promises," suspension. Cape Cod Times:
The Woods Hole chapter of Cinema Politica, a Canada-based group that showcases independent political films, has featured alternative movies every Friday night for the past 18 months in the former Water Street fire station building.
But the Woods Hole Community Association, a nonprofit group that leases the building from the town, suspended the chapter after receiving complaints related to several movies involving the ongoing conflict between Palestine and Israel….
Elise Hugus and her husband Daniel Cojanu, two founding members of Cinema Politica, met with [Woods Hole Community Association leaders Catherine] Bumpus and [Steve] Junker in December because of several complaints the association had received regarding controversial movies.
Cojanu said he and Hugus were informed of vague complaints about the movie content, but neither side knew how to fix the problem. That’s when Bumpus and Junker came up with a temporary solution: notify the association prior to showing films about Palestine and Israel.
"Why do we need to give this topic special treatment?" Cojanu said yesterday. "From that point of view, we felt it was a freedom of speech issue."
But Bumpus said the association is not in the business of censoring anyone, and that Hugus offered to give the group advance notice if a movie concerning the Middle East was going to be shown.
So when Cinema Politica made a last-minute decision to screen a film called "Occupation 101," about the Palestinian/Israeli conflict, on June 4, Bumpus said she grew concerned about false promises.
"We received e-mails that Friday, late in the afternoon, saying it was being shown, and we responded that we were disappointed not to have heard beforehand as they had offered," Bumpus said.
Cinema Politica members then penned a two-page response to the community association, calling for all future communication to be in writing. That raised "a lot of red flags" within the association, Bumpus said, and a decision was made several days later to suspend Cinema Politica for the rest of the summer and reconsider the group’s use of the building in the fall.
