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You of course know why.
She did so because she was “shocked” that there was to be no denunciation of Israel for what Roy calls its “genocide” in Gaza. The German organizers of the film festival said that they would not allow the festival to be the place where “political” views would be aired, taking attention away from the purpose of the festival itself.
“Arundhati Roy quits Berlin film festival over Wenders’ Gaza remarks,” Agence France-Presse, February 14, 2026:
Indian author Arundhati Roy announced she is withdrawing from the Berlin International Film Festival after jury president Wim Wenders said cinema should “stay out of politics” when questioned about Gaza.
Roy said in a statement sent to AFP that she was “shocked and disgusted” by responses from Wenders and other jury members to a question about the Palestinian territory at a press conference on Thursday.
Roy, whose novel “The God of Small Things” won the 1997 Booker Prize, had been announced as a festival guest to present a restored version of the 1989 film “In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones”, in which she starred and wrote the screenplay.
However, she said that the “unconscionable” statements by Wenders and other jury members had led her to reconsider, “with deep regret”.
When asked about Germany’s support for Israel at a press conference on Thursday, Wenders said: “We cannot really enter the field of politics”, describing filmmakers as “the counterweight to politics”.
Fellow jury member Ewa Puszczynska said it was a “little bit unfair” to expect the jury to take a direct stance on the issue.
Roy said in her statement that “to hear them say that art should not be political is jaw-dropping”.
She described Israel’s actions in Gaza as “a genocide of the Palestinian people by the State of Israel”.
“If the greatest filmmakers and artists of our time cannot stand up and say so, they should know that history will judge them,” she said.
The writer Arundhati Roy is careless with words. She does not understand what “genocide” is. So let’s explain it to her: genocide is the deliberately intended killing of people on the basis of their race, ethnicity, and religion.
How many people, do you think, all over this giddy globe, merely by dint of repetition in the media and on social media, now believe that Israel has been committing “genocide” in Gaza? How many have bothered to investigate the actual number of civilians killed in Gaza as a result of combat? How many have recognized that the essential element for the charge of “genocide” to stick is the presence of “intent”? How many people denouncing Israel for “genocide” are deliberately ignoring the fact that there has been no such intent by the IDF, which has made a tremendous effort, by dropping millions of leaflets, sending millions of text messages, and making millions of robocalls, to warn civilians away from neighborhoods and buildings soon to be targeted? How many know that the IDF has been facilitating the vaccination of children in Gaza? Or that the Israelis have transported children with serious conditions out of Gaza to hospitals elsewhere, where their conditions can be best treated? How many know that there is not a “famine” in Gaza? How many know that Israel has facilitated the entry into Gaza of 1.5 million tons of humanitarian aid — mainly food and medicine? Does any of that suggest that Israel has ever had the “intent” to commit genocide?
Who knows the answer to that? You know the answer to that. Arundhati Roy does not.
To the Left and the Jihadists, the truth is irrelevant.
Genocide. To have a genocide you have to kill people with purpose. Language fail for her.
Reality fail for her. Lies are her.
This loathsome woman will not be missed at the festival. She’s a one-trick pony who became a low-level Communist agitator after the award for her overrated first novel.
By the way, The soundtrack to Wim Wenders’ “Until The End Of The World” is one of the best.
She can write her stuff on toilet paper rolls. At least it would be useful for something.
Maybe the greatest filmmakers see what the Palestinian people have done time and time again when offered their own State .