Only the rise of anti-Semitism allows Hamas' hate crimes and rape and sexual abuse to remain in the dark. In Night Porter (1974), Charlotte Rampling plays a Jewish girl who survives a concentration camp.

There is something of that in the Hamas films: explicit cruelty and gender violence are not understood as compassion, but put into context. Hamas understood how the current narrative machine works where the girls in the tunnels have no one to cry out for them, writes Shmuley Boteach.