Human Rights Watch Hires Michael Bay To Portray Palestinians As Innocent, IDF As Brutal

Los Angeles, March 15 – One of the leading organizations monitoring Israeli treatment of Palestinians has engaged one of Hollywood’s leading directors to contrive confrontations between Palestinian protesters and Israeli troops in order to portray the troops as brutal to extreme dramatic effect.

Human Rights Watch, which devotes a significant portion of its efforts to playing up the suffering of Palestinians under Israeli rule while downplaying incitement against Jews, has hired Michael Bay, a Hollywood director best known for over-the-top superhero and disaster films with knockout special effects. Bay is expected to set the scene for clashes between Palestinian youths and Israeli soldiers, ensuring that whatever harm results to an Palestinians is presented in the most dramatic, gory, and gut-wrenching way.

Experts in both the film industry and human rights fields are hailing the partnership, calling it a natural fit. “Human Rights Watch and other organizations such as Amnesty International need to constantly justify their existence and funding, so they naturally seek ways to provoke violent confrontation in the Occupied Territories,” says veteran actor and director Mel Gibson, who has also dabbled in anti-Jewish material set in the Middle East. “And Michael has been telling me how he wants to do more than just entertain people – he wants to make a difference.”

While Gibson famously depicts villains in unredeemable terms, as in his hit movies The Patriot and Braveheart, he says he is intensely curious about how Bay will go about establishing the beleaguered Palestinians as plucky good guys and the monstrous Israeli soldiers as the bad guys.

Human rights activists have also weighed in, praising both Human Rights Watch and Michael Bay for what they hope will provide creative synergy in a field plagued by amateurish demonizing of Israel. “Repurposing a photo of a child killed in the Syrian civil war and recaptioning it as one killed by Israel is about the best we’ve seen so far from activists in the field,” said Amnesty International spokesman Joseph Goebbels. “It’s about time we had some actual Hollywood-level direction on the scene to give the results some real punch, instead of just relying on, say, the BBC, to do the work of editing out Palestinian provocations. Don’t get me wrong – the BBC is very good, but it’s not Michael Bay.”