By inviting the AfD, the Berlin Senate and the Green Party-led Culture Ministry are repudiating the Berlinale’s 2019 pledge to deny a “platform for racist-nationalist propaganda.”
A pernicious form of political censorship is developing in German cultural circles and the media, involving the persecution of progressive artists and critics of the establishment on the basis of false accusations of anti-Semitism.
The Berlin Film Festival opened last Thursday with a barrage of militarism and war propaganda, followed one day later by the world premiere of Superpower, directed by Hollywood’s leading advocate of all-out war against Russia, actor Sean Penn.