
Screen capture from video of Republican nominee for governor of Pennsylvania, Doug Mastriano, acting in the anti-abortion movie 'Operation Resist.' (YouTube. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
JTA — Doug Mastriano, the Republican nominee for governor in the US state of Pennsylvania who has drawn scrutiny for his association with antisemites, acted in a 2019 film about the rescue of Jews that has drawn criticism from Holocaust scholars — and from its Jewish star — for Holocaust distortions.
The New Yorker and The Washington Post this week both reported on “Operation Resist,” which purports to depict the rescue of Dutch Jews by American spies. Mastriano plays an American spy and also helped finance the movie.
The film, which is fiction, operates from a thesis that abortion and gun control pave a path to Nazi-like control.
It begins with an effort by US liberals in the present day to remove Holocaust education from a school board curriculum, then flashes back to the rescue of a Dutch Jewish girl, Miriam.
At the end, the film returns to the present, in which a Holocaust survivor who attends a meeting of the school board explains that Miriam is his sister, and uses her experience to decry abortion, gun control and government overreach.
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Doug Mastriano, running for Pennsylvania governor, portrayed American spy in 'Operation Resist,' blasted by scholars -- and by its Jewish star -- for Holocaust distortions
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