"Our film “No Other Land” on occupied Masafer Yatta’s brutal expulsion won best documentary in Berlinale. Israel’s channel 11 aired this 30 second segment from my speech, insanely called it “anti semitic” - and I’ve been receiving death threats since. I stand behind every word." pic.twitter.com/2burPfZeKO

• Yuval Abraham יובל אברהם (@yuval_abraham) February 25, 2024

#politics #art #film #festival #berlinale #antisemitism #censorship #mccarthyism #strikegermany

Mc Carthyism - Made in Germany:

Berlinale: Filmmakers say what the rest of the world is saying

At the Berlinale film festival, Israeli and Palestinian filmmakers called for equality and peace. German politicians want to ban such hateful talk (Nathaniel Flakin)

The Berlinale film festival ended on Saturday evening with a gala, but if you read the German press, it was actually a »scandal«. The speeches were »alarming«, »shameful«, and »frightening«, full of »Israel hatred« and »antisemitism«. What had happened?

Yuval Abraham and Basel Adra, an Israeli and a Palestinian, won an award for their documentary film »No Other Land«. Abraham spoke for just 36 seconds:
»In two days, we will go back to a land where we are not equal. I am living under a civilian law, and Basel is under military law. We live 30 minutes from one another, but I have voting rights, and Basel is not having voting rights. I am free to move where I want in this land. Basel is, like millions of Palestinians, locked in the occupied West Bank. This situation of apartheid between us, this inequality, it has to end.«

His co-producer Adra took just 21 seconds: »I'm here celebrating the award, but also very hard for me to celebrate when there are tens of thousands of my people being slaughtered and massacred by Israel in Gaza. Masafer Yatta, my community, is being also razed by Israeli bulldozers. I ask one thing from Germany, as I am in Berlin here, to respect the UN calls and stop sending weapons to Israel.«

These are sober statements of liberal democratic principles. Who would dare to contradict? Should systematic inequality based on ethnicity (known in international law as »apartheid«) continue? Should Germany keep ignoring UN resolutions?

"Clear message at @berlinale ceremony by Basel Adra, co-producer of "No Other Land": "There are 10s of 1000s of my people being slaughtered...by #Israel in #Gaza. I ask 1 thing from #Germany...to respect the #UN calls and stop sending weapons to Israel" pic.twitter.com/7QUzMKujEh

• Prof. Hanna Kienzler 🧡 🇵🇸 (@HannaKienzler) February 25, 2024

An Israeli and a Palestinian stood together against the militaristic logic of both Likud and Hamas. It's an inspiring message – yet I have not found a single German publication that has quoted them in full.

Rather than engaging in debate, German politicians are demanding censorship. Olaf Scholz and his top cultural bureaucrat Claudia Roth each called the speeches »shockingly one-sided«. Justice minister Marco Buschmann called for »criminal consequences«. Even Anne Helm of the Left Party declared that »a line has been crossed«.

Berlin's mayor Kai Wegner called this an »unacceptable relativization« and declared that »there is no space for antisemitism in Berlin, and that also applies to the art scene.« This is the same Wegner who just two weeks ago said the AfD will be included in future editions of the Berlinale. The politicians of the in some federal states officially far right party had been disinvited following protests, but the mayor is demanding »equal treatment« for them. In other words, for Wegner, literal far right politicians are OK, but critical Israelis are not welcome.

Over the years, Berlinale has hosted some spectacular Israeli documentaries. Good films need to be critical of the reality they are trying to portray. If all criticism of Israel is rejected as antisemitic, then no one will dare to invite Israeli directors for fear they might say something negative about their government. What will be left at Berlinale? Just Tatort episodes and Netanyahu campaign ads?

German politicians are claiming this will cause »damage to the Berlinale«. The opposite is the case: their demands for extreme censorship are a mortal threat to Berlin's art scene. Do they even realize how far outside the global mainstream they are? In calling for a ceasefire, Saturday's prizewinners were saying what the whole world except for Germany is saying – even Joe Biden has been mumbling about it.

Once again, we see how this virulent solidarity with Israel comes at the expense of Jewish life in Germany. What do we call this ferocious desire to silence Jews who don't comply with the German Staatsräson? Last week, the Israeli director Udi Aloni said: »It seems like there is a new form of antisemitism in Germany, that no one calls antisemitism: the censorship of progressive intellectual Jewish voices.« He admitted that he was afraid to quote Walter Benjamin or Franz Rosenzweig in this country »because I might get canceled«.

It seems German politicians don't want us to hear these speeches. They cannot defend the reality – so they try to avoid discussions about it. We must hear Israelis and Palestinians when they stand together to call for equality and peace.
- https://www.nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1180340.antisemitism-berlinale-filmmakers-say-what-the-rest-of-the-world-is-saying.html

l'UNWRA a lancé un nouvel avertissement selon lequel la famine « est imminente ».
« Nous continuons à nous coordonner avec l'armée israélienne pour pouvoir aller dans le nord, mais cela nous a été largement refusé », a dit M. White. « Lorsque nos convois sont enfin autorisés à se rendre dans la région, les gens se précipitent vers les camions pour obtenir de la nourriture et la mangent souvent sur place ».

un certain nombre de pays donateurs ont suspendu un financement à hauteur de 440 millions de dollars.

(nous) avons reçu des rapports selon lesquels les habitants de la région **broient de la nourriture pour oiseaux **pour en faire de la farine »

Quel genre d'humain sommes nous...
#Honte #Israel #conseil-de-securite #genocide suite et faim
https://news.un.org/fr/story/2024/02/1142822

A voir la précédente attaque contre l' #UNWRA, enquête suisse RTS https://iv.nboeck.de/watch?v=FhW-f6-HLlA

Bernie Sanders has an excellent piece in the #Guardian entirely worth reading in its entirety - "The #US must act to end the #Gaza disaster - The#UnitedStates must make it clear to #Netanyahu that the we will not provide another dollar to support his inhumane, illegal #war - many of us are watching with horror the severe humanitarian catastrophe unfolding in Gaza. Unfortunately, too many of my colleagues in the #House of Representatives and #US #Senate are choosing to ignore this reality and evade their congressional responsibilities. Let’s be clear: what’s happening in Gaza is not just some unfortunate tragedy taking place thousands of miles from our shores. The United States provides #Israel with $3.8bn in military aid every year, and the bombs and military equipment that are destroying Gaza are made in #America. In other words, we are complicit in what is happening. And what’s happening is unspeakable."

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/jan/27/the-us-must-act-to-end-the-gaza-disaster

#War #IsraelGaza #Genocide #StopGenocide

IDF is literally destroying all buildings in Gaza.

The video shared by IDF showing the destruction of a mosque in Gaza by the engineering team of Israeli armed forces.

This wasn't a military target, nor was it a Hamas owed mosque, it was just the symbol of something israel wants to erase.

Every house, every university, every government building and every apartment complex is going to be destroyed, flattened and turned into robble to make Gaza uninhabitable.

This is not a war against Hamas, it's not even about just Palestinians, it is a war of dominance, war of eradication of all signs of what it was there before and the war of cleansing everything, people, buildings, culture, farms and even graves.

And in the mean time, the "world" is standing idle watching it happen again and again and if you dare questioning it, or god forbid if you dare to criticize it, you end up losing your job, your reputation, your rewards and in some cases even your freedom.

This, my friends, is the new, new, new world order.

Video of the whole "demolition" shared on telegram

#SaveGaza #StopIsrael #EthnicCleansing
#palestine #Israel #Occupation #Apartheid #Politics #PeaceNow #StopTheWar #CeasefireNow
@palestine group

Excerpts from a recent article.

Most of the freed hostages don't talk, however, some of the Thai workers who were also released, alongside Israeli and dual nationals, spoke in detail about the desperate conditions, beatings and random executions.

Out of 6 thai hostages 2 was killed in the beginning, the friend of the person was randomly chosen and shot in the head just next to them because the truck was full of hostages and there was no more place for a person to transport.

At the target are they were tied and moved into empty houses. Short after that the soldiers started hitting and kicking everyone, without any point. When they tried to say that they are thai they got a bit less of that but they kept hitting and kicking israely people for an hour.

They were moved again, and an both ends they were hit and kicked for a long time again. Arriving in the tunnel system (and after another long beating) they were moved in a windowless room, where they have been beaten for more 2-3 days, repeatedly. The israelis got a week more continuous beating, including being hit for hours by charged electrical wires. They got 2 pita as a day's ration and 2 bottles of water for all of the people. The thai people were moved in a different place after 3-4 days where the beatings were stopped and they got a little bit more food.

After about a month a leader-looking person told them that "thai go home", they were moved through a tunnel system, and finally given over to the Red Cross, after 50 days.

Some hostages are not even held by Hamas but various other smaller terrorist organisations.

(The people mentioned called Pornsawan Pinakalo, Anucha Angkaew, and some of them were not specifically named.)

#hamas #israel #war