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An Israeli film-maker who won one of the top prizes at the Berlin film festival has said German officials’ description of the awards ceremony as “antisemitic” has led to death threats and the physical intimidation of family members, causing him to hold off plans to return to Israel.

Yuval Abraham, 29, was on Saturday awarded the Berlinale’s best documentary award for No Other Land, which charts the eradication of Palestinian villages in Masafer Yatta in the West Bank.

Abraham’s acceptance speech, in which he decried a “situation of apartheid” and called for a ceasefire in Gaza, was one of several moments during the closing ceremony in which film-makers expressed solidarity with Palestine. It sparked an outcry in German media the following day, with several politicians alleging the speeches had been “antisemitic”.

“To stand on German soil as the son of Holocaust survivors and call for a ceasefire – and to then be labelled as antisemitic is not only outrageous, it is also literally putting Jewish lives in danger,” Abraham told the Guardian.

“I don’t know what Germany is trying to do with us,” he added. “If this is Germany’s way of dealing with its guilt over the Holocaust, they are emptying it of all meaning.”

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[–] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 28 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yet another case of anyone speaking out against Israel being labeled antisemitic.

[–] ilmagico@lemmy.world 15 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Well, this one takes it one lever higher: calling an Israeli jew, descendent of holocaust survivors, "antisemite" just because he disagrees with the actions of his government ...

[–] febra@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

I don’t know how that is in other parts of the world but this is quite a normal occurrence in Germany nowadays. A lot of Israeli Jews living in Germany have been labeled by white Germans as antisemitic for criticising the occupation.

[–] sirboozebum@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

To be fair he opposes killing thousands of children and starving 2.4 million people to death, so that does make him antisemitic.

[–] ilmagico@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

Back in my days "antisemitic" meant hating all jews, not merely opposing Israel's government. So no, he's not antisemitic.

[–] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 0 points 8 months ago

Lay off the booze.

[–] muntedcrocodile@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Germany cant win here whatever they do they are wrong best decision they can make is to say nothing.

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 4 points 8 months ago

That would mean admitting that you can't possibly be the most virtuous participant in a discourse spawned by your state killing 6 mln people. Not a very German or European thing to do, just letting go of that feeling of being the beacon of morality.

[–] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 1 points 8 months ago

Germany acting as the concerned Karen over someone else being slighted.

[–] stoly@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I’ve said it before that Germany has no choice here and can never act rationally on this subject. They don’t have a way out.

[–] sirboozebum@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

They could consider not labelling any criticism of Israel as antisemitic.

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

They do have a way out - instead of pretending to have achieved holiness on this subject, just not perpetuate the problem. Boring and mundane, yeah.

But this is actually the hardest thing to do for people of all European (in very general sense) cultures, even USSR had that "догнать и перегнать", Europeans simply can't admit that the best they can do in some cases is to not make matters worse. They always need to claim the crown.

[–] stoly@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

White knight syndrome I suppose.