Several false claims are made in the film such as that a non existent wing of a hospital was destroyed. ( http://tinyurl.com/pfdjp ) The UN, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, the international press, al Jazeera and even the Palestinian Authority all verified that there was no massacre in Jenin. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Jenin_2002 ) {I am NOT citing Wikipedia as a reliable source but the article has links to reports by the organizations cited above} Bakri admitted to faking footage and not verifying if his witnesses were telling the truth. ( http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=42404 ) As a masterpiece of using film as propaganda it deserves a 10 but since documentaries are supposed to portray the truth it deserves IMDb's lowest rating The claim that "the director was killed by Israeli soldiers shortly after the film's release" made by the reviewer from New Zeeland on March 6, 2006 is incorrect. In fact he is still alive (unless he died very recently). Mohammed Bakri was scheduled to appear at a Palestinian film festival April 24, 2006. (EDIT it appears that the IMDb administrators or the author removed that claim) http://www.palestinefilm.org/2006/ Len
Review of Jenin, Jenin
