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Over 80 film workers slam Berlin festival’s silence on Israel’s Gaza war
Dozens of actors and directors, including Javier Bardem and Tilda Swinton, have condemned the Berlin International Film Festival for its “anti-Palestinian racism” and urged organisers to clearly state their opposition to “Israel’s genocide” in Gaza.
In an open letter published in Variety on Tuesday, the 81 film workers also denounced comments by this year’s president of the awards jury, Wim Wenders, who – when asked about Gaza – said, “We should stay out of politics.”
All of the signatories are alumni of the festival, which is also known as the Berlinale, and include actors Cherien Dabis and Brian Cox, as well as directors Adam McKay, Mike Leigh, Lukas Dhont, Nan Goldin, and Avi Mograbi.
Immigration court rejects Rubio’s deportation cases against two pro-Palestinian students: Report
Immigration courts have terminated deportation proceedings against two pro-Palestinian students, marking the second such decision in just more than a week, ABC News is reporting.
In the latest case, a judge ruled that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) failed to prove that Mohsen Mahdawi, a Columbia University student detained during his naturalisation interview last year, was removable.
Lawyers representing the Trump administration had given a 2015 FBI investigation, in which a gun shop owner alleged that Mahdawi had claimed to have built machineguns in the occupied West Bank to kill Jews, as the reason.
However, the FBI had closed that investigation, and Mahdawi was never charged with any crime, ABC reported.
The court found DHS did not adequately authenticate a memo allegedly signed by Secretary of State Marco Rubio claiming Mahdawi posed a foreign policy threat.
A similar ruling recently halted proceedings against Rumeysa Ozturk, a Tufts University PhD student also labelled a foreign policy risk.
