At the Suicide of the Last Jew in the World at the Last Cinema in the World is the title of a David Cronenberg short shown at Cannes in 2007. During the 4-minute-long movie, eager TV commentators coax the last Jew, played by Cronenberg, to kill himself. The Canadian director, whose new movie Maps to the Stars just debuted at Cannes, explained that the short was inspired by Hezbollah’s 1992 mission statement, which vows to continue holy war “until the elimination of Israel and until the death of the last Jew on earth.”
Hezbollah’s policy goal—making Jews vanish, not by magic but by murder—is obviously indebted to Nazism: Hezbollah sees the destruction of Israel as a means to an end—the disappearance of Jews from world history—and the movement’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, has often encouraged Jews to move to Israel so that they can be more conveniently annihilated by his movement. “It’s pretty interesting to hear someone say our goal is to kill every Jew in the world wherever they are,” Cronenberg told an interviewer. “That means me and my children. It does evoke a reaction.”
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