Academic quits Berlin Film Festival for silencing criticism of Gaza Genocide

Celebrated Indian academic and Booker Prize winner Arundhati Roy has withdrawn from the Berlin International Film Festival in protest. She described this as a reaction to the jury’s refusal to address Israel’s two-year-long genocidal war in Gaza. Roy said her exit was prompted by “unconscionable” statements, as she described, from the festival jury about the […] By Nazli Tarzi