Debate about the Berlinale: Warning of “symbolic politics”. During the gala on Saturday evening, the Middle East conflict was discussed several times.
Numerous jury members and award winners called for a ceasefire in the Gaza war verbally or with badges. “Like it or not, we have to learn to endure such debates,” Meron Mendel had already told the dpa. The question of suitable measures to prevent and contain anti-Semitism should be “viewed in a context of society as a whole”