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Filmmaker Wendy Sachs' 'October 8' exposes antisemitism on college campuses
Documentary filmmaker Wendy Sachs was with her daughter Lexi at the University of Wisconsin-Madison when she first learned of the October 7, 2023, Hamas terror attack in Israel.
"The images coming out of Israel, babies and children, young people, grandparents being murdered. Their murders were being livestreamed, being put on Facebook. The videos from Telegram of Nova Festival, young people being taken hostage and kidnaped into Gaza," Sachs recalled to Fox News Digital.
But when she saw the surge of antisemitism erupt on college campuses across the country in the following days, she knew she had to do something.
"October 8, when I saw the protests in Times Square, and then I saw what was happening the next day on October 9, and at Harvard, where more than 30 student groups signed onto a letter blaming Israel on the attack on itself. And then we saw the same thing happen from campus after campus, from Columbia to NYU to Tulane to MIT, Cornell, Penn. It just felt like the world had lost its mind," she said. "The silence, the dismissal, the denial."
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New documentary shows the alarming connection between Hamas and campus protests
Wendy Sachs' new documentary 'October 8' reveals the disturbing origins of the outbreak of antisemitism sweeping college campuses across our country.