The 1972 Olympic massacre occurred more than 50 years ago. Many years ago I was fortunate to meet a member of the Israeli fencing team from that Olympics. Because the terrorists skipped the room the fencing team was staying in, members of the fencing team survived. It was a horrible event, and I remember watching it unfold on television, ending with the death of most of the Israeli athletes. There is no question as to who was responsible for the terrorism, and Mossad eliminated many of the terrorists after the events. But there are always people who are trying to rewrite history.

On Sunday, The Jewish Chronicle reported the following:

Nearly 1,000 people have signed an online petition calling on a cinema in Brooklyn to stop screening a film about the Munich massacre during the 1972 Summer Olympics.

September 5, directed by Tim Fehlbaum, follows the terrorist attack carried out by the Palestinian militant organisation Black September, which saw two members of the Israeli Olympic team killed and nine taken hostage. Those kidnapped were later killed.

The film, which premiered at the 81st Venice International Film Festival on August 29, 2024, is screening this January at the Alamo Drafthouse in Downtown Brooklyn.

…The workers describe the film as “Zionist propaganda”, which misrepresents the militants who carried out the massacre as “antisemitic terrorists”.

The film is told from the perspective of an ABC Sports broadcasting team, whose coverage quickly adapted from the Olympic Games to the Israeli athletes being taken hostage.

“The film is an ahistorical and dehumanising dramatisation of Operation Iqrit and Biram, undertaken by the Black September Organisation at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich in the name of the liberation of 200+ Palestinian prisoners,” the petition said.

The article includes an example of propaganda by those who don’t object to terrorism:

“Echoing the well-worn pattern seen since 9/11, September 5 is yet another attempt by the Western media to push its imperialist and racist agenda, manufacturing consent for the continued genocide and cultural decimation of Palestine and its peoples.

“It is quintessential Orientalism: Depicting Arabs and brown people as evil, antisemitic terrorists, while lionising the very newsrooms that provide political cover and, in many cases, cheer for endless wars and genocide.”

The Black September people took hostages and murdered people, how were they not “antisemitic terrorists”? The Pro-Palestinian groups have never criticized the raids of October 7, 2024. How can we expect them to criticize the events of the 1972 Olympics? Leopards don’t change their stripes.