Incitement (psychological thriller)
Tuesday, May 27 at 7:30 PM
2019 (Israel), directed by Yaron Zilberman

Incitement details the year leading to the assassination of Israel’s Prime Minister, Yitzhak Rabin (1922–1995), from the point of view of the assassin. In September 1993, Rabin announces the Oslo Accords, which aim to achieve a lasting peace between Israelis and Palestinians after decades of violence. Yigal Amir, a law student and a devoted Orthodox Jew, cannot believe that his country’s leader will cede territory that he and many others believe is rightfully — by the word of God — theirs. As the prospect of a peaceful compromise approaches, Amir turns from a political activist to an extremist. He recruits fighters and steals weapons to form an underground militia intent on killing Palestinians. He soon learns of an ancient Jewish law, the Law of the Pursuer, that he believes gives him the right to murder Yitzhak Rabin. Convinced he must stop the signing of the peace treaty in order to fulfill his destiny and bring salvation to his people, Amir’s warped mind sees only one way forward.