At the 82nd Venice Film Festival, thousands of pro-Hamas protesters, organized by the group Venice4Palestine, appeared just as the Festival opened, causing mayhem as they marched through the city and screamed their demand that an invitation to Israeli actress Gal Gadot be rescinded. Her crime was being an Israeli, and not only that, but an Israeli who refused to criticize her embattled country for its war of self-defense against the terror group Hamas. More on the protesters, who can now chalk up another victory in their propaganda war against the Jewish state, can be found here: “Thousands of pro-Palestine protesters gather at Venice Film Festival to put spotlight back on Gaza,” by Mathilda Heller, Jerusalem Post, September 1, 2025:
Thousands of pro-Palestinian demonstrators congregated in Venice on Saturday during the 82nd Venice International Film Festival to protest the war in Gaza.
The protest was organized by Venice4Palestine, a coalition of Italian film professionals and international film professionals.
Ahead of the march, the group said it wanted to “break the silence on the systematic violence by the Israeli army and on the complicity of governments just as the media attention will be focused on the Film Festival.”
The pro-Hamas demonstrators in Venice wanted “to break the silence” on the “systematic violence by the Israeli army”? Why, there is no subject that has received such round-the-clock attention, throughout the world’s media, than the war in Gaza and the putative crimes of the IDF. The group in Venice simply wanted to add its voice to the vast chorus of people screaming their rage, fueled by an anti-Israel animus so deep that it long ago descended into naked antisemitism.
The week before, the group wrote an open letter to the Venice Film Festival saying “We – activists and workers in the film, media and news fields – believe that for once, the show must stop: We must interrupt the flow of indifference and open a path to awareness.”…
What “flow of indifference” is that? Our giddy globe is full of anti-Israel marches, manifestos, strikes, all focusing on the crimes of the “ethnic-cleansing genocidal” Jewish state. No other subject receives such constant coverage.
Venice4Palestine also urged the festival to withdraw its invitations to Israeli actress Gal Gadot.
Italian actress Tecla Insolia told Corriere that excluding Gadot “is the minimum” and did not count as “discrimination.”…
So preventing the appearance of an actress because she is Jewish and Israeli does not constitute, according to actress Tecla Insolia, “discrimination.”
Gal Gadot refuses to denounce her own government for waging a war it did not start and did not want, on a terror group that has promised to repeat the atrocities — rapes, tortures, mutilations, murders — that it carried out on October 7, 2023 “again and again.” For this she is to be consigned to the outer darkness.
The director of the festival, Alberto Barbera, later confirmed to Variety that Gadot would not be attending.
He also told Deadline on Sunday that he offered the protesters the opportunity to send a delegation to the red carpet, but they declined and did not enter the festival grounds.
“They didn’t want to interfere with the festival,” he said.
The protesters didn’t “want to interfere with the festival”? But that was the whole point of their demonstrations — to interfere with the festival so that the Israeli actress Gal Gadot would not be allowed to appear. And those demonstrators won; despite her earlier invitation, Gadot will not now be taking part in the festival.
Was Gal Gadot’s invitation rescinded by the Festival’s director, Alberto Barrera, or did she conclude that her presence, and the mayhem that was sure to ensue, would simply be too disruptive and would take attention away from the Festival’s offerings? Either way, she is owed an apology by the Festival for her withdrawal. It’s one more victory for the legions of pro-Hamas Europeans, one more defeat for decency.
Wellington says
I take it a “Venice4AfricanChristians” is not going to make an appearance at the Venice Film Festival anytime soon.
W.F. Buckley the 3rd says
Of course not they haven’t figured out a way to blame muzslime murders in Africa on the Joooz! Give ’em another year.
JS says
We must start taking names. I’m starting a database of all these people.
Let’s imagine that after each terror attack by Mus.lims, the entire world did the same to every single moslem, to include every part of their life and world? Imagine THAT?
Meanwhile, there are countless genocides going on by moslems to Christians in African nations that
have been going on for about 30 years (but that number is only since I’ve followed it), and it is still going on today. They also abduct some of the women and children and the women are sold as house slave. The children have their legs or arms broken and are set up to beg in the streets. This is what is Islam and has always been.
carpediadem says
Strangely many Christians prefer to harass Jews instead of defending their brethren..
Interesting isn’t it?
Laurence Jarvik says
She should not have withdrawn—looks weak and cowardly. Not the image Israel needs.
ploome says
Gal Gadot is the mother of 4 children. I am sure she got death threats.
She doesn’t need the Venice festival.
Brenrod says
Neither do I, they are dead to me now. Euro cowardice will once more destroy Europe and hopefully the USA won’t rescue them this time.
Johnny B. Goode says
Muslim cult invasion is the destruction of western society. Just look at London ,Paris, etc. and now US congress is going to hell in a handbasket superfast. Wake up America
࿗Infidel࿘ says
No, if she was the one who withdrew her name, I laud her for it. One – her sense of prestige, and two, her refusal to be a part of a pretentious gang that hates her country for no reason. Since I was a kid, I have always looked at film festivals as a pageantry of the pretentious, and just hated them. The communists, when they were on their various cultural revolutions worldwide, would have done well to target them. That would have been a better outcome than what actually has happened – co-opting them
I do hope another jihadist group creates a carnage at this Venice Film Festival, similar to what happened at Ariane Grande’s concert at Old Trafford a decade ago. If those “artistes” were lost, the world would be richer from the experience
Laurence Jarvik says
If she wasn’t willing to take the heat, she never should have accepted the invitation in the first place. If Israeli security can’t protect her, then Israel is weak. Let them cancel her, but don’t back down under threats.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
No, it’s not the job of Israel to protect their citizens when they legally travel abroad: it’s the job of the host country, in this case Italy. But even there, the issue wasn’t whether Italian or Venetian law enforcement would be able to control crowds: the issue was that this “artistic” organization, which would otherwise have been complimentary to her and recognized her accomplishments, turned against her simply b’cos of her nationality
It’s the equivalent of “Would you visit the home of someone who hates you?” For most self-respecting people, the answer would be “no”, and Godot demonstrated that she falls in that category. Had this been, say, a Turkish celebrity who was disinvited to an event b’cos of what Turkey does to its neighbors, there would have been muslim mobs trying to break into that event. Jews, by contrast, don’t go where they are not wanted
Laurence Jarvik says
I don’t understand what you are saying. She wasn’t dis-invited. The Israeli government obviously had an interest in this as a PR opportunity. She could have taken a stand against the mob and set an example. Instead she ran away. That’s not a good example, in my opinion. Make them cancel you–don’t cancel yourself. The basketball team did a much better job, the other day, winning in front of booing crowds…
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Hugh’s final paragraph:
The article wasn’t explicit about whether it was Barrera who rescinded the invitation, or Godot who declined to come. You are assuming the latter and making a series of judgments about her decision. I am working on your hypothesis, and making the argument that she was perfectly justified in declining, if in fact, that was what she did
Now you are making the claim that she wasn’t disinvited, which is nowhere in the above article. Nor is it there in the original Jerusalem Post story, which is what Hugh cited
It’s also bordering Israel-derangement-syndrome for you to claim that her presence there would have been a PR coup for Israel. She doesn’t represent Israel: she represents herself. It’s only an accident of birth that she’s Israeli. She could have gone there, and everybody could have treated her as just another participant, regardless of her nationality or religion, and ignored the whole thing
The Venice Film Festival behaved like the Coldplay singer Chris Martin who shamed one of the fans he initially meant to honor for being Israeli, just b’cos sections of his fans booed. He could have told them that his fandom was not about politics or nationalities or religions, and told them that if they couldn’t respect their fellow fans, they were at liberty to leave his concert. But he didn’t, and instead, just put on a disgracefully condescending attitude towards the fan. It’s probably just as well that Coldplay sucks
somehistory says
Personally, if I was in her shoes, I’d say under the circumstances, I wouldn’t grace their *festival* with my presence.
Allowing the terrorists to have their way, and for the ‘director’ to decide to rescind the invitation, shows they are not worthy of her presence and the respect she carries.
Like “Smarty Arty who threw a party and no one came, but Smarty Arty.” Let them have their festival, which means very little.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
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40 rounds says
You can’t tell me me these people personally give a rat’s ass about Palestinians or Palestine. This is plain and simple jew hatred.
somehistory says
The ‘gaza’ issue is just giving them cover, an excuse which is having an enormous effect as few people are complaining against them.
gravenimage says
A Victory for Hamas at Venice Film Festival
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Thugs. Kudos to Gal Godot for standing strong! A *very* good choice for Wonder Woman.
Tim gallagher says
You have to be so evil to support those satanically evil scum of the earth from Hamas. These leftist scum think they are virtuous and yet they support Hamas there must be a very hot place, deep in hell, awaiting supporters of Hamas.
jerry glenn says
Rampant Islamopandering.
OLD GUY says
These pro-Palestine protestors think this is a football game between Israel and Hamas. While they root for their Hamas teem they know nothing about the game. They cheer for the win and stick their heads in the sand for the bad play and losses.
Puddleglum says
Stay strapped or get clapped.