Berlinale: State Protection Investigated after Genocide Prosecution at the Berlinale

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German police have launched an investigation into Hong Kong director Jun Li's speech at the Berlinale where he read a critical speech to Israel by Iranian actor Erfan Shekariz, who stars in his film Queerpanorama.

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In his speech at the Berlinale, director Jun Li accused Germany of supporting "genocide" to the Palestinians.

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At the Berlinale, a director on the stage spoke of a genocide against the Palestinians. He also spoke of the call "From the river to the sea", which denies Israel's right to exist.

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A speech will be read at an event at the Berlinale, in which Germany is accused of supporting a genocide against the Palestinian people.

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Another anti-Semitic incident has occurred at Berlin. The Chinese director Jun Li, whose film “Queerpanorama” is part of a side series at the festival, read from an English-language text by Shore Verriz on stage at a screening. It says, among other things: “While you are watching this film, millions of Palestinians are suffocating under brutal settler colonialism funded by the West.”

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The Berlin Regional Criminal Office investigates a speech by Iranian actor Erfan Shekarriz, read by Chinese director Jun Li in an event related to the Berlinale, for contents that allegedly cast doubt on the right to existence of the State of Israel, which in Germany is criminalized. The speech ended with the slogan “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” (from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free) which in certain contexts i…