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.
Germany has a massive ongoing problem of the use of ethnicity to classify people and the practice of ethnic-Descrimination being normalized in German society, especially Politics and the Press, all of 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, not at all their ethnicity - 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 how extreme its practice has been 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 one deemed “good” (Jewish) and the victims one deemed “bad” or “lesser” (Muslims), should be scary for all of us Europeans as you never know when Germany will whilst walking such path come to the point of seeing other European ethnicities too as “lesser” one which can be eliminated to take their land just like Israel is doing to Palestinians.