Until reading Cortney O’Brien and David Spector’s article at Fox News, I had never heard of Wendy Sachs.
But I know who she is now, and why she has created a Documentary called “October 8th”. And I intend to see it.
Here is how the article starts:
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.”
“And so, by the end of October, I knew that I needed to document what was happening,” she added. “And that’s when I wrote a treatment for the film.”
The article goes on to detail the extent of Israel and Jew hatred hamas’ attack forced out into the open…and how difficult it has been to put together this documentary and to get it shown in theaters:
“In the weeks that followed October 7, there was so much silence from Hollywood and so much silence from women’s rights organizations and silence from politicians who I admire and I respect and who I’ve supported, and even among my own professional women’s networks.
“It was just crazy, the hypocrisy and the double standards that were happening when it came to Israel and to the fact that it was Jewish women who were raped and who were murdered and who were mutilated,” Sachs said.
Now, a year and a half after the hamas massacre, it is FINALLY going to be available in (some) theaters.
If it is available where you can see it, I strongly suggest you do.
