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that the perpetrators of 
the crime filled their social 
media feeds with antisemitic 
rhetoric. 
“These are all calling cards 
indicating that the perpet-
uators of these crimes have 
prescribed to the ideologies 
found in this film,” Leaf said. 
“Amazon is promoting Nazi 
ideology in this film, and it is 
trying to pass it off as a fact-
based documentary.” 
The lawsuit states: “The 
Hebrews to Negroes (H2N) 
film is the latest salvo in 
America’s war against the 
Jews, which is being waged 
by various factions all over 
America with criminal vio-
lence against Jews, threats, 
intimidation, institutional Jew 
hatred, discrimination and a 
nullification of Jewish human 
dignity across America’s insti-
tutions.”

Among some of the film’s 
imagery are Jewish men 
praying at the Western Wall 
in Jerusalem, their heads 
shrouded in prayer shawls, 
with the voice of the narrator 
speaking “the synagogue of 
Satan and Lucifer himself.” 
Another image is a carved 
stone façade of a Jewish star 
with a horned devil-like 
figure in its center, as the 
narrator speaks: “The seed 
of Edom, the seed of Cain, 
the Synagogue of Satan, and 
Lucifer himself are the major 
confederate that has been 
against us for a very long 
time.” 
ZOA Michigan President 
Sheldon L. Freilich said it is 
not acceptable to stay silent in 
the face of antisemitism. 
“We must stand as proud 
Jews without bowing our 
heads when faced with this 

hatred,” Freilich said. “This 
vile film denies the Holocaust, 
proliferates hatred that Jews 
are the manifestation of the 
devil, spreads a Nazi genocid-
al hatred, among other despi-
cable lies.
“Shockingly,” he adds, “it 
encourages criminal hatred 
and violence by some mem-

bers of the Black community 
toward Jews. 
“What’s equally disturb-
ing is that the film fools the 
unaware viewer with sublimi-
nal hate messaging.” 

For more information and to RSVP, 

send an email to Kobi@MIZOA.org or 

call (248) 672-7713.

An example 
of antisemitic 
imagery in the film

A STILL FROM H2N FILM

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