Pierre Rehov is the pseudonym of a French–Israeli documentary filmmaker, director and novelist, most known for his movies about the Arab–Israeli conflict and Israeli–Palestinian conflict, its treatment in the media, and about terrorism.[1][2][3][4][5][6] Rehov is also a fiction writer, whose novels have enjoyed some success in France, and several have been translated into English and German.
Life
Rehov was born to a Jewish family[7] from Algiers, when Algeria was still a French department. He experienced terrorism at a young age when his school was the target of a terror attack conducted by the "FLN" (Algerian National Front of Liberation). In 1961, his family became a part of pieds-noirs (European colonial settlers living in French African territories) fleeing from Algeria in fear of reprisal massacres by Algerians against their former colonial overlords.[8]
Rehov says he was not any sort of activist until he saw the death of Muhammad al-Durrah on television, and doubted its authenticity[9] - a claim later deemed in French courts to be defamatory in the case against Philippe Karsenty in 2013.[10]
In January 2008, Rehov was embedded in the 4/1 US cavalry in Baghdad and Durah, where he filmed hours of dailies, showing the situation in Iraq from the field. Those images are part of his documentary The Path to Darkness.
In 2008 Rehov moved to the United States due to what he described as a growing climate of antisemitism in France and the rest of Europe. Three years later, in November 2011, he moved to Tel Aviv, Israel, where he now lives.
As a journalist and commentator, he writes regulartly in Le Figaro, Valeurs Actuelle, The Gatestone Institute, The Jerusalem Post and many political blogs, including Dreuz and Atlantico.
Rehov is married to Sharon Yambem, a Jewish immigrant to Israel from India. From a previous mariage he has a son, who lives in Singapore and a daughter who is an actress and lives in New York. A third child was born in 2022 from his second marriage.
Filmography
- The Road to Jenin – a response to Jenin, Jenin, a controversial documentary produced by Mohammed Bakri, in order to portray what Bakri calls "the Palestinian truth" about the "Battle of Jenin". The film lists number of casualties acknowledged by both Palestinians and Israelis.
- The Trojan Horse – this film demonstrates that Yasser Arafat's true intentions were not a two-state solution, but a Palestinian state on the territory of all of Israel.
- Holy Land - Christians in Peril[11] – a film which exposes the flight of Christians from PA-controlled lands.
- Silent Exodus – a film about the Jewish exodus from Arab lands.
- Hostages of Hatred – how the Palestinian right of return, supported by the UN, has left Palestinians in camps for half a century and, as Rehov argues, originated the present unsolvable situation in the Middle East.
- From The River to the Sea was voted Best Film at the 2006 Liberty Film Festival
- The War of Images
- Suicide Killers – 2006 documentary film that purports to explore the psychological condition of suicide bombers.[12][13] Released in theaters, in New York and Los Angeles, and distributed on DVD by WEA, Suicide Killers was considered for the Hollywood Oscars but not nominated.
- First comes Saturday, then Comes Sunday – 2007 documentary film about the persecution of Christians under Islamic rule in the Middle East[14]
- The Path to Darkness – 2011
- War Crimes in Gaza – 2015
- Beyond Deception Strategy – 2015
- Unveiling Jerusalem – 2017
- Behind the smokescreen" - 2018
- Pay for Slay - 2019
- Palestinian Apartheid - 2019
- The origins of the Palestinian Cause - 2019
- Terror, racket and corruption - 2019
- Palestine, the invention of a Nation - 2019
- The Sunday People - 2019
- Palestinian animal abuse - 2019
- Violence and discrimination - 2020
- Lies and tears - 2022 (A counter investigation into Shireen Abu Akleh's death)
- Pogrom(s) - 2024 (An in-depth investigation into the October 7 massacre perpetrated by Hamas against more than 1,000 civilians in Gaza, in the context of a worldwide revival of anti-Semitism stemming from an alliance between far-left movements and Islamists.)
Note: most his films are available on Youtube and CastR
Novels
- Cellules Blanches – Published by the major French publisher, Albin Michel. Published in Germany under the title Wesse Zellen and in English under the title "Beyond Red Lines". Soon to be published in Spanish and Italian. A thriller about counter-terrorism.
- Tu seras si jolie - Published by Belfond. June 2018
- Ted - Published by "La Mécanique Générale". January 2019
- Beyond red lines - Published by "Thirty Trees". March 2020
- The Third Testament - Published by "Thirty Trees". July 2021
- 88 - Published by "Cosmopolis". February 2021
- Amnesia - Published by "Cosmopolis". March 2022
- Red Eden - Published by Thirty Trees. May 2022
- Nuit Américaine - Published by Cosmopolis. September 2022
See also
References
- ^ "The U.S., Churchill and the Middle East By PIERRE REHOV". Yonkers Tribune. 2017-05-22. Retrieved 2018-01-21.
- ^ Keller-Lind, Hélène (2017-12-21). "'Unveiling Jerusalem' Pierre Rehov's film debunks UNESCO revision of past". The Jerusalem Post | JPost.com. Retrieved 2018-01-21.
- ^ "Syrie, Iran, Chine, Israël : la nouvelle diplomatie américaine de Donald Trump". FIGARO (in French). 2017-05-05. Retrieved 2018-01-21.
- ^ Markind, Johanna (2017-12-22). "New Film Beautifully Showcases Jerusalem Archaeology to Rebut Historical Revisionism". Algemeiner.com. Retrieved 2018-01-21.
- ^ "Réfugiés palestiniens : pourquoi Trump coupe les vivres à l'UNRWA". FIGARO (in French). 2018-01-18. Retrieved 2018-01-21.
- ^ "Israël Palestijns conflict / Wat drijft Palestijnse zelfmoordenaars?". Joods Actueel. 2019-05-18. Retrieved 2019-09-05.
- ^ "The mind of a suicide bomber / A politically incorrect film explores the bomb bearers' many motivations". SFGate. 2006-10-22. Retrieved 2018-01-21.
- ^ Chesler, Dr. Phyllis (2009-04-22). "Pierre Rehov: Lion In Exile". The Jewish Press. Retrieved 2018-01-21.
- ^ "So You Want to Be a Hamas Terrorist?". Israel National News. Retrieved 21 January 2018.
- ^ "Frenchman guilty of defamation in Mohammed al-Dura case". BBC News. 2013-06-26. Retrieved 2024-05-26.
- ^ Justus Reid Weiner (2005). Human Rights of Christians in Palestinian Society. Jerusalem Ctr Public Affairs. pp. 6–. ISBN 978-965-218-048-3.
- ^ Lee, Nathan (2006-08-25). "Suicide Killers - Review". Movies. Retrieved 2018-01-21.
- ^ Rehov, Pierre (2007-04-30). "Suicide Killers". HuffPost. Retrieved 2018-01-21.
- ^ comes Saturday, then Comes Sunday Middle East Studio. middleeaststudio.com, undated.
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