{"id":2296113,"date":"2026-02-23T20:18:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T20:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2296113"},"modified":"2026-02-23T20:18:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T20:18:19","slug":"political-backlash-after-pro-palestine-comments-at-berlin-awards-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/political-backlash-after-pro-palestine-comments-at-berlin-awards-ceremony\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Backlash After Pro-Palestine Comments at Berlin Awards Ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">Onstage comments at this year\u2019s Berlinale awards ceremony, which saw filmmakers call out the German and Israeli governments for the \u201cgenocide in Gaza,\u201d have drawn a political backlash in Germany.<\/p>\n<p>Syrian-Palestinian director <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm12518046\/\">Abdallah Al-Khatib<\/a>, winner of the Berlinale Perspectives section for his drama Chronicles of a Siege, said the current German government were \u201cpartners in the genocide in Gaza by <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co1031588\/\">Israel<\/a>\u201d and noted that \u201cthe long awaited day is coming, and when people ask you what happened, tell them: Palestine remembers. We will remember everyone who stood with us, and we will remember everyone who stood against us, against our right to live with dignity, or who choose silence or choose to be silent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The comments prompted German environment minister <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1183174\/\">Carsten Schneider<\/a> to leave the gala in protest. In a statement, a spokesperson of the minister said <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm5075723\/\">Schneider<\/a> \u201cconsiders these statements unacceptable and therefore left the event during the speech.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Onstage comments at this year\u2019s Berlinale awards ceremony, which saw filmmakers call out the German and Israeli governments for the \u201cgenocide in Gaza,\u201d have drawn a political backlash in Germany. 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