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Berlin Mayor Criticizes “Anti-Semitic” Berlinale Closing Ceremony As Hackers Post Ceasefire Message To Fest’s Social
Berlin Mayor Kai Wegner also described the Berlinale closing ceremony as an "intolerable relativization."
Another of the night’s charged speeches came from Basel Adra and Yuval Abraham, a Palestinian-Israeli filmmaking duo behind the Berlinale documentary award winner No Other Land. Israel’s air and ground offensive in response has driven around 80% of Gaza’s population from their homes, putting hundreds of thousands at risk of starvation and the spread of disease. In his posts on the ceremony, Wegner of the Christian Democratic Union party said of the state-backed festival: “Anti-Semitism has no place in Berlin, and that also applies to the art scene.
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