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☆ Yuval Abraham receives death threats after calling for Gaza ceasefire at Berlin film festival
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-28 | by ( Amy Cassidy | Chris Stern | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —Israeli journalist and film director Yuval Abraham said he is receiving death threats and has canceled his flight home from the Berlin International Film Festival amid backlash to an acceptance speech in which he decried the “situation of apartheid” and called for a ceasefire in Gaza. Abraham and his Palestinian co-director Basel Adra accepted the Best Documentary award for their film “No Other Land,” which chronicles evictions and demolitions of Palestinian homes in the occupied West Bank by Israeli authorities, on Saturday. Their speeches were met with accusations of antisemitism by high-level German and Israeli officials, including the mayor of Berlin and Israel’s Ambassador to Germany. “I am still getting death threats and had to cancel my flight home. I’m free to move where I want in this land; Basel is, like millions of Palestinians, locked in the occupied West Bank.”He continued: “We need to call for a ceasefire.

Persons: Yuval Abraham, Abraham, Basel Adra, “, ” Abraham, John Macdougall, Adra, ”, Kai Wegner, ” “, ” Ron Prosor, — Organizations: CNN, Berlin, West Bank, Israeli, Potsdamer, Getty, Abraham’s, Bank, Basel, ” Locations: Gaza, Berlin, Germany, Israel, Basel, ” “ Berlin

☆ Anti-Semites cannot be granted German citizenship under new law - minister
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-25 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser looks on after addressing members of the media, in Berlin, Germany, September 27, 2023. REUTERS/Liesa Johannssen/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsBERLIN, Oct 25 (Reuters) - A law under consideration by the German parliament would mean that people who have committed anti-Semitic acts can never be granted citizenship, German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser said on Wednesday. "Our draft for the new citizenship law, which we will now discuss in the Bundestag, provides a clear exclusion of anti-Semites," Faeser said in a statement issued after she met with Israeli ambassador to Germany, Ron Prosor. She added that German authorities were "extremely vigilant" with regards to supporters of the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas in Germany, saying that any such person would be "prosecuted with the full force of the law." Writing by Friederike Heine; editing by Matthias WilliamsOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Nancy Faeser, Liesa, Faeser, Ron Prosor, Friederike Heine, Matthias Williams Organizations: REUTERS, Rights, German, Hamas, Thomson Locations: Berlin, Germany, Palestinian

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