Berlinâs official city portal just wrote our film No Other Land has âantisemitic tendenciesâ. A film that won the Berlinale and was recently invited to a special screening in the German embassy in Israel. It pains me to see how, after murdering most of my family in the holocaust, you empty the word antisemitism of meaning to silence critics of Israelâs occupation in the West Bank (the topic of our film) and legitimize violence against Palestinians. I feel unsafe and unwelcome in Berlin of 2024 as a left-wing Israeli and will take legal action.
In 1 hour we have a screening of the film in front of 500 people at Berlinâs Academy of Arts - which is funded by the state. How can me and @basel_adra share our work in a city which incites violence against us? What is going on?
Just on this, Irish policy is to only recognise or refer genocide when there has been a finding of commission of genocide by a court or international tribunal or something like that. Itâs in recognition, I think, of genocide being âthe crime of crimesâ and of the power of the word. Anyway it may be the same reason that RTĂ and other media donât use the word in regular reporting and thatâd be fair enough. Many commentators describe the situation as ongoing genocide and I think theyâre right. Ethnic cleansing isnât a legal term but itâs clear thatâs going too. Completely agree with you that itâs been mass atrocity and war crime after war crime and should be reported on as such. RTĂ definitely have a history of both sidesing the situation. Israel has prevented reporting on whatâs going on by denying access or just killing reporters, so itâs hard for RTĂ I suppose but I think they could do better. My major issue with RTĂ is they regularly report things Israelâs spokespeople say - propaganda, lies - as if theyâre legitimate things to say, without interrogating or providing context. Their reporting on Israel outlawing UNRWA is a good example of this.
The BBCâs best interviewer and one of the few objective voices it has about Israel leaves the organisation.
Buried at the bottom is this: Barnett is a pro-Israel shill.
The news of Husainâs departure comes five months after Martha Kearney left the Today programme. She was replaced by (Emma) Barnett, who joined from Womanâs Hour.
