He said the "city council need to make the call today to cancel this showing and relegate this movie—and its anti-Semitic values—back to the dark fringes of our society." Eight out of the nine members of the Montgomery County Council similarly asked for cancelling the screening of the documentary as they said the film was anti-Jewish. Tom Hucker, the only member of the council who did not sign the request, said that he was not comfortable doing so when he had not seen the film yet.[1] Ron Halber, the executive director of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington, who preferred not to participate in the screening, said "We have a city that has decided to spend taxpayer dollars on a discredited film that is anti-Semitic in nature."[2][3] He added that the film "could have been written by the Hamas propaganda playbook."[4]