Germany’s ‘Staatsräson’ casts a long shadow on
It should have been a good week for Yuval Abraham. The Israeli director’s film, “No Other Land”, about the Israeli army’s destruction of Palestinian homes in the West Bank, had just won best documentary at the Berlinale, Germany’s biggest film festival.
But suddenly he was swept up in what the Germans call “ein Mega-Shitstorm”. In his acceptance speech he had castigated Israeli “apartheid” in the occupied territories. The next day, German politicians queued up to denounce his remarks — and the Berlinale’s other expressions of solidarity with Palestinians — as antisemitic.
Things began to escalate. Abraham said on X that he received death threats and a “right-wing Israeli mob” came to his home, “threatening close family members” who were forced to take flight. The Jewish director, enraged at being called antisemitic, said it was outrageous “that German politicians in 2024 have the audacity to weaponise this term against me in a way that endangered my family”. “If this is what you’re doing with your guilt for the Holocaust — I don’t want your guilt,” he added.
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