Defamation’s director has a few basic themes: whether postmodern day anti-Semitism is as serious as it was in the past; whether anti-Zionism should be equated with anti-Semitism and whether remembering the past is holding people back from moving forward. I’m basically an outsider looking in so I felt like I could not really judge the film’s conclusions. The director uses a Michael Moore approach, has some pacing issues and isn’t exhaustive, but there was one interesting point that he merely alluded to, but did not deeply examine: Jews who practice Judaism are less concerned about and troubled by anti-Semitism even when they are actually targeted by anti-Semites than secular Jews who are not because of security in their identity.