Pallywood’s Latest Blockbuster

In 2003, after watching the first postmodern blood libel go viral, I coined the term Pallywood to describe the widespread use of staged scenes of Palestinians suffering violence supposedly at the hands of Israel, fabricated for global consumption. The term was decried as a “conspiracy theory,” and against all evidence, Israel was blamed for murdering 12-year-old Muhammad al-Durah. Twenty years later, we’re back where we started.