Yuval Abraham Archives - Public Seminar

NAZA Gives A Name to the Machinery of Killing

The documentary turns Israeli soldiers’ testimony into an indictment of a system whose victims have been telling its story for years

October 13, 2026 • by Mitchell Abidor

When NAZA, the new documentary on the genocide in Gaza directed by Israeli filmmakers Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival it was reported that it set a festival record for the longest standing ovation ever at 24.5 minutes. When I saw the ...

NAZA Gives A Name to the Machinery of Killing

How the banality of everyday life keeps us fenced off from evil

In a way, our memory culture both in Germany and in Israel is an exact reversal of the reality revealed by the film. Perhaps that's why the film seems to annoy many people in Germany, who complain that it shows the "perpetrator's perspective." But memory must also be a memory ...