Berlinale Posts Q&A Setting Out Position On Freedom Of Expression, Antisemitism & Palestine Amid Bubbling Boycott Calls & ...

As the Berlinale prepares to kick off its 75th edition on Thursday, the festival has clarified its position on freedom of ...

about employees being instructed not to wear watermelon pins, and asked whether the policy prohibited wearing any national symbols. “Pins that have a political symbol and representing personal ...

The festival has published a Q&A titled 'Questions & Answers for a Respectful and Open Dialogue During the Berlinale'.

In the heated afternoon of what the Galle Literary Festival 2025 (GLF) calls ‘The Garden Stage,’ an open-mic session quietly ...

He added suppressing representations of Palestine does not combat ... In a transcript of the call, de Castell said watermelon pins are a political symbol and thus could not be displayed at work.

We are a film festival. But Berlinale is also a community of people coming together with a desire to create an inclusive, open environment around cinema.” ...

suspended from work and school One employee said they heard that staff were asked not to wear watermelon pins, which have become a global symbol used to show solidarity with Palestinians ...

One employee said they heard that staff were asked not to wear watermelon pins ... as discriminatory for allowing staff to wear some symbols and not others. "It seems to be progressive except for ...

The watermelon symbol, with the same red-green-black colour ... that you have banned your staff from wearing watermelons or Palestine flags in solidarity against the horrible holocaust occurring ...

Mortgage adviser is left ‘angry and humiliated’ after solicitor refuses to represent him because of his ‘beliefs as a Muslim’ ...

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