Is this a worth while movie to watch? Just by looking at all the attempts to play it down in various ways by Israelis and friends should indicate that THERE IS SOMETHING REALLY WORTH WHILE taking part of!!! "It's false, fabricated, hatred, one sided and anti-semitic, funded by PLO" they all cry out together joining the ranks with the Isreali Minstery of Foregin Affaris which has published an article "Seven Lies About Jenin" about the movie. That if ANYTHING is a sign that EVERYONE should watch it! For an Israeli land grabbing, killings, road blocks, invasion and PR cover-ups are all just for the "war" of survival. ANYTHING that questions that method and politics is a treat, anti- semitic and hateful. but don't take my word for it! SEE THE MOVIE and then make up your own mind! get EDUCATED on all sides of the "holy land"! and don't stop on one side - cross the boarder and hear the arguments from the other side. EITHER OR, SEE THIS MOVIE!no love without no heart. no heart without respect. no respect without justice. no justice comes from occupation!: maria

The best documentaries are those that shed a whole new light on a situation or examine it in a new and unique way. Right from the start, however, it seems that Jenin Jenin has a far different agenda. Instead of being a rich and complex examination of a difficult, tragic conflict, it is a repetitive and monotonous exercise in preaching to the choir.In order to establish credibility in a documentary, we need to see something of what is being described. Instead of footage from the event, we get mainly indictments from people who are supposedly eyewitnesses to the carnage, and are asked to take it all on faith. Some of these interviews are powerful and painful to watch, but others require leaps of faith for a rational observer, and that is something a documentary should never ask of its viewers. In fact, a good chunk of the movie is an interview with its own producer, making his own pontifications on the events of Jenin. Imagine Michael Moore making a film where he just talked about his own views and cited no sources, and you'll get an idea of what most of this is like.These observations quickly become predictable, as do the rest of the interviews and the movie. The 54 minutes seem interminable as we hear story after unvaried story about the pain and suffering that the horrible Zionist conspirators inflicted on the helpless Palestinians. About 10 minutes of this footage would be good to use in a far better film that examines the conflict in much greater depth and with more meaning, but the rest should have found the cutting room floor.Jenin Jenin is apparently not meant to be viewed from a critical perspective, and because of the nature of the events it documents it is almost beyond criticism. For Israeli sympathizers, it is no more than a hateful piece of Hamas-funded propaganda. For Palestinian sympathizers, it is a scathing indictment of a corrupt and evil nation run amok. With such a polarity in play, there is almost no way to discuss a film like this rationally. But then, the movie apparently isn't meant to be seen that way. It is a call for the viewers to rise up and bash Israel, and while it may be effective for those who are already completely sold on it and just want a justification, for others it just comes off as propagandistic.For an aspiring journalist like myself, Jenin Jenin lacks the meat of true reporting, and is little more than an inflammation of previously existing hatreds. If you're looking for a deeper understanding of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, look elsewhere. Not recommended.

This propaganda film is nothing but anti-Semitic and anti-American incitement typical of extremist Islam. I have had the opportunity to watch portions of this "film" and can be honest in saying that its contents are sickening to watch. I am unimpressed with the last commenter's quote " 'the Palestianians asked for it' (Israel)". There is no source here. Also, the vast majority of Israelis don't agree with that statement. There are many Israelis who opposed the IDF mission in Jenin. Media coverage of the incident put focus on one side of the story: the PA side. Israelis did not speak to the media and thus evidence of a "massacre" was produced to support PA claims that hundreds were killed and a city was leveled. Overhead photos show that less that 1/10 of the city was destroyed. A video captured by Israeli media caught Palestinians covering a live body in a funeral shroud and placed this individual along with the others lined up. It was obvious that evidence was produced: a couple of days after the incident, skulls were visible in the rubble. For a human body to decompose to a level such that a skull is remaining takes months to years; not mere days. Bakri is on trial for making this film. Anyone who agrees with this movie needs their head examined.

In 2002, April 3rd through 12th, the population OF Jenin, a Palestinian refugee camp and home to some 14 000 people living under strict military curfew, was exposed to a merciless assault by Israeli soldiers, tanks, armored bulldozers, and helicopters. Much of the camp was shot and blown to hell, while an area the size of several football fields in the centre of town was completely leveled, purportedly the gravesite of many hundreds of people. That is the clear aftermath. The exact details of the occupation are still debated, accounts varying from "the Palestinians asked for it" (Israel) to claims of generally bloodthirsty behavior on the part of Israeli soldiers (Palestinians, Red Cross workers, and just about any outsider who's visited the site). "Jenin Jenin" is a documentary lending voice to Jenin's survivors wishing to participate in that debate (which ended up costing it's director his life).Through "Jenin Jenin", you'll take a stroll though the rubble. You'll listen to shattered people give accounts of brutal murder of their kin that are so horrid, you'll have trouble believing them because you cannot wrap your mind around such carnage being perpetrated by mere men. Except that at one point, you'll see footage apparently shot during the occupation -- footage of captives lined up on the ground and run down by an armoured vehicle. You'll see a young girl with a disturbing cold gaze, and come to understand just how deep her hate for Israel already runs. Ten years old at most, she pledges to do all she can to destroy Israeli lives.In the end, you'll either declare it all bulls**t, believe the Israeli claims that whatever happened, the Palestinians asked for it, and I'll call you a flaming moron, or you'll want to do something about it but find you can't, your government won't, and you'll hate the world.