A new film called October 8: The Fight for the Soul of America was just released. Directed by Wendy Sachs with appearances by Debra Messinger and others, the documentary examnines the rise of support for Hamas on US college campuses since the October 7, 2023, massacre of Jews in Israel, and the concomitant rise in anti-Semitism in American academia and around the world.

An alternative title, October H6TE, is also circulating, and the subtitle is variously The Fight for the Soul of America and Globalize the Intifada (the latter appearing on official movie posters).

According to wikipedia:

The film covers the 2024 pro-Palestinian protests on university campuses after the October 7 Hamas-led attack on Israel. It describes how “anti-Israel sentiment came to a fever pitch in the immediate aftermath of the massacre” and argues such sentiment “morphed into anti-Semitism”. The film includes interviews with Michael Rapaport, Noa Tishby, US representative Ritchie Torres, US senator Kirsten Gillibrand, Sheryl Sandberg, Dan Senor, Scott Galloway and Mosab Yousef. It explores the organization Students for Justice in Palestine and argues that SJP promoted anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism on campus. The film also covers the role of social media in allegedly stoking anti-Semitism among young people.

In the film, University of California, Santa Barbara’s (UCSB) student body president describes how she was harassed online and on campus after she condemned the October 7 attack.

In media interviews on Australia’s Sky News, where a crowd gathered at the Sydney Opera House anc chanted “Gas the Hews” on October 8 before Israel responded to the mass murder of civilians by Hamas, the filmmakers pointed out this wasn’t confined to Australia. They said the instant adoption of a Hamas antifada by American university students exposed latent anti-Semitism on the left which only sought a pretext for irruption.

Official website here.