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Indian author Arundhati Roy has announced that she is withdrawing from the Berlin International Film Festival after what she described as “unconscionable statements” by its jury members about Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza.

Writing in India’s The Wire newspaper, Roy said she found recent remarks from members of the Berlinale jury, including its chair, acclaimed director Wim Wenders, that “art should not be political” to be “jaw-dropping”.

“It is a way of shutting down a conversation about a crime against humanity even as it unfolds before us in real time,” wrote Roy, the author of novels and nonfiction, including The God of Small Things.

“I am shocked and disgusted,” Roy wrote, adding that she believed “artists, writers and filmmakers should be doing everything in their power to stop” the war in Gaza.

“Let me say this clearly: what has happened in Gaza, what continues to happen, is a genocide of the Palestinian people by the State of Israel,” she wrote.

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[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 day ago

Germany has a massive ongoing problem of using ethnicity to classify and ethnic-Descrimination being normalized, which adds up to Extreme Racism (it's the only country in Europe were a head of state has justified sending weapons and ammo to a Genocidal state whilst they were mass murdering children with the need to support the dominant ethnicity of the aggressor state).

This shit is definitely not Humanist Values - were people's treatment depends only on their actions and their need - but rather an older way of looking at other people and the World which, curiously, is very much the same as the NAZIs, though not quite yet taken to the same extreme in terms of action inside of Europe (though the same can't be said for Palestine).

The revelation of Modern Day Germany being so profoundly Racist that even Genocide committed along ethnic lines is something that the country will support as long as the ethnicity of the genociders is as "good" ethnicity, should be scary for all of us Europeans as you never know when Germany decide that other European ethnicities too are "lesser" and this that they can be eliminated to take their land just like Israel is doing to Palestinians.