After the first three decades, the trope became less of a driving force in Holocaust historiography, according to Lawson. However, Richard Middleton-Kaplan cites the 2010 film "The Debt", about a Nazi war criminal who taunts and escapes from his Jewish captors, as a recent example of a work perpetuating the perception that Jews passively acquiesced to their fate, because the Nazi's claims to that effect are not rebutted. Israeli settlers protesting evacuation from the Gaza Strip said "we will not go as sheep to slaughter" which was considered hyperbole.