October 8th and the Film's Purpose

A filmmaker set out to document the fallout of October seventh. Instead, she uncovered something far larger and far darker: a coordinated ideological capture of Western institutions, a foreign-funded corrosion of democratic values, and a generation primed to cheer for extremists before the bodies in Israel had even been counted. Wendy Sachs joins Jonathan Sacerdoti for a stark, unflinching look at how the world lost its bearings on October eighth, and why the shockwaves are still reshaping global politics today.

Sachs traces the journey from campus slogans to international propaganda machines: the sudden mobilisation of Students for Justice in Palestine, the foreign financing behind them, and the decades-long strategy to infiltrate universities, media and social platforms. She reveals how Qatar, Iran and China have poured billions into Western education while demanding silence about their own regimes, how academics have embraced an oppressor–oppressed fiction that rewards extremism, and how young people were ideologically groomed long before October seventh made the crisis visible.

👁‍🗨 Watch if you want to understand why October eighth wasn’t a reaction — it was a revelation.

💬 We Discuss:

📽️ How October 8th exposes the ideological collapse after the Hamas massacre

🗽 The Times Square celebrations before the dead were even named

🎓 The hidden foreign funding behind SJP and campus radicalism

🔺 The origins of the red-triangle symbol and why its use is a call to violence

📡 Decades of Hamas messaging strategy revealed in FBI wiretaps

🌍 How anti-Zionism became the fashionable disguise for old antisemitic tropes

💸 Qatar, China and Iran’s billion-dollar grip on Western universities

📚 The academic shift from scholarship to indoctrination

🧠 How TikTok and social algorithms manufactured a generation’s worldview

🏛️ Why institutions police “offence” but not extremism

🎞️ Why Hollywood is now a battleground for foreign influence

🔥 The climate of hate: from campus cancellations to political assassinations

🕊️ How Jews rediscovered identity — and why the crisis reaches far beyond them

⚖️ What it will take for democracies to fight back, and whether they still can

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👇 Comment below — Are Western institutions still capable of defending themselves, or has the ideological capture gone too far?