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I made a film about Oct. 7 hostage posters. I was accused of centering ‘whiteness.’

October 7, 2026David Leibermann

A year ago, after a screening at Baruch College of my documentary “TORN: The Israel-Palestine Poster War on NYC Streets,” four different students asked me the same question: What about the whiteness of the posters? “TORN” follows the fight that broke out on New York’s streets over the “Kidnapped” posters of those taken hostage by […]

My Jewish family was forced out of our homeland. We must not let Gazans suffer the same fate.

February 5, 2025David Leibermann

I grew up on stories of exile. My family was forced out of Iraq and Tunisia for being Jewish — homes stolen, communities erased and history rewritten. To this day, too many people insist it was “voluntary migration,” as if nearly a million Jews in Arab lands simply woke up one morning and decided to […]