Controversy following anti-Semitic statements at the Berlinale
The Berlin Film Festival is over. But the Berlinale is at the center of controversy after filmmakers made pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel statements during the closing ceremony. The German political class condemns statements that are considered anti-Semitic and one-sided. Reactions that once again illustrate the great sensitivity to these questions in Germany 80 years after the […]
Kanye West apologizes, one year after anti-Semitic comments – Libération
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The American rapper apologized to the Jewish community on Tuesday, December 26, for anti-Semitic comments made a year ago. For the Anti-Defamation League, a “welcome first act of contrition” that comes just days before the release of a new record. It must be the spirit of Christmas. Unless it’s the upcoming release of an album […]
Ken Loach: “There is a product of self-censorship out of fear that dictates that if you criticize Israel you are anti-Semitic.”
Updated Friday, October 27, 2023 – 9:20 p.m The 87-year-old director presents “The Old Oak,” a film that aims to confront what remains of working-class solidarity with the new xenophobic fever of the far right. The film director Ken Loach, yesterday in Valladolid.GALLEGO NACHOEFE Ken Loach (Nuneaton, 1936) still there With everything that this supposedly […]
Despite the anti-Semitic statements made by rapper Médine, the Greens are sticking to the invitation to their summer university
The rapper has been accused of anti-Semitism, homophobia and communitarianism. The government has asked LFI and EELV not to invite him again. The Europe Ecologie-Les Verts party remains determined to welcome the rapper Médine to his summer school. Environmentalists on Friday August 11 swept away growing pressure on them and La France insoumise (LFI) to […]
Rapper Médine defends himself after a message classified as anti-Semitic
The rapper labeled Franco-Gambian Jewish artist and essayist Rachel Khan as “resKHANpée”. The singer had made it clear that he had “made no allusions to any origin or family history”. Amid a controversy surrounding his visit to the ecologists’ and rebels’ summer schools, rapper Médine defended himself on Friday against the anti-Semitic nature of a […]
The Roald Dahl Museum condemns the writer’s “undeniable” racism due to his anti-Semitic views
MADRID, July 20 (EUROPA PRESS) – The Roald Dahl Museum (Great Britain) Has condemned the author’s “undeniable” racism and deplores racism “directed against any group or individual” and share the Dahl family and the Roald Dahl Story Company’s 2020 apology for anti-Semitic views of the Jewish people. “Roald Dahl’s racism is undeniable and indelible, but […]
The Roald Dahl Museum, in turn, apologizes for the anti-Semitic remarks by the children’s book author – Liberation
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Almost 33 years after the death of British author Roald Dahl, the museum that bears his name apologizes in a press release for the author’s multiple anti-Semitic statements. Beyond his enchanted children’s books, from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory to James and the Big Peach, Roald Dhal’s controversial legacy takes center stage once again. The […]
German police prevent Spanish group Ska-P from playing one of their songs at a concert in Munich because it’s ‘anti-Semitic’ | Culture
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Spanish rock band Ska-P have complained that German authorities censored their concert in Munich on Saturday. The Madrid group that took part The Tollwood Summer Festivalsaid that two police officers spoke to them just before the concert to warn them that they could not play one of their most famous songs, intifadabecause in Germany his […]
Ska-P denounces censorship: The German police won’t let him play one of his songs because of “anti-Semitism”.
“Six million Jews were exterminated in the most horrible manner. / An imperialist genocide by fascist armies, we must learn from history. / The victims have become executioners, turning themselves inside out, / colonizing Palestinian territories and breaking common sense again.” So begins “Intifada,” the song he couldn’t play Ska P in his last concert […]
Investigations into alleged anti-Semitic provocations by Roger Waters at a concert in Berlin
By Le Figaro with – Published 3 hours ago , To update 3 hours ago The Israeli Foreign Ministry blamed Roger Waters for this “stained the memory of Anne Frank and the six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust.” ANNA KURTH / – In a dubious staging, the ex-Pink Floyd wore an outfit reminiscent of […]