A long overdue film that makes it clear that the founding of Israel was not the story of “a land without people for a people without land” as the fairy tale version of Israel’s founding claimed. I understand that many Jewish refugees after WW2 were unwelcome, as refugees typically are, in countries they wished to emigrate to. Israel was an understandable option, but the Zionist movement long preceded Nazism and its leaders made a choice…contested unsuccessfully by a minority within the movement…to create a homeland where others already lived. The choice was based on an historically fanciful Bible story that posited a past in which only Jews lived in Palestine.