>THE PSY-OP
• Children were shown this patently adults-only film, which contained allusions to and depictions of violence, rape, murder, and genocide -- many of them brought to tears from the traumatic scenes which they were confronted with
>after the "Cave of Patriarchs Massacre" in 1994 -- a mass shooting inside a mosque in Palestine, undertaken by the Israeli settler zealot, Baruch Goldstein, killing 29 and injuring 125 -- to which event, the [Jewish] Israeli youth began asking ominous question about the fascist ideology of Zionism, Spielberg was summoned to Israel and ordered to conduct a "Schindler's Tour", playing his film throughout Israeli schools

• The film was admittedly, deliberately, and explicitly created in a manner that would make it more easily confused with depictions of real-life occurrences, than the fiction that it was actually predicated upon
>"I want to portray the events more from a journalistic viewpoint. The use of black and white, and the hand held camera creates a documentary effect. Moreover, we set ourselves the aim that, in a few years' time, nobody would be able to tell when the film was made." (Janusz Kamiński, cinematographer)

• The neologism "faction" (i. e., a portmanteau of "fact" and "fiction") was coined (?) and bandied about at the time, in direct reference to Spielberg's film

• Tellingly, in a 1994 interview, Spielberg stated that before he undertook making the film, he did not know what race / ethnicity he belonged to -- "I never really had a sense of my own heritage... my own race"
>demonstrative of how the "Holocaust narrative" has been turned into a veritable religion for all Jews -- especially, otherwise non-religious, secular Jews -- and used as a pretext for solidifying their otherwise disparate ranks, and rallying them whenever any of their ranks are placed under scrutiny