When asked about Israel’s genocide and the support the German government — which funds much of the festival — has shown for Israel, Wenders claimed that filmmaking was “the opposite of politics,” and went on to explain that “We have to stay out of politics because if we make movies that are dedicatedly political, we enter the field of politics.” There was an international uproar and Wenders had destroyed his legacy much like Jürgen Habermas before him. This was followed by one prize winner, Palestinian-Syrian filmmaker Abdallah Alkhatib, in his acceptance speech appearing wearing a keffiyeh and a Palestinian flag being held next to him, whose speech lambasted the German government as “partners in the genocide of Gaza by Israel, but you choose not to care.” He went on to declare: “We will remember everyone who stood by us, and we will remember everyone who stood against us.” Then there was an open letter by round 100 current and former participants of the Berlinale (all foreigners, I could recognise no German names) criticising Wender’s and the Film Festival’s views on filmmaking and politics.

The “tide is changing across the international film world,” they wrote, citing the refusal of more than 5,000 film workers, including several major Hollywood names, to work with “complicit Israeli film companies and institutions.” The German political class and media went ballistic, outraged that these dark skinned people and other foreigners were questioning their hypocritical, self-congratulatory, and superficial progressive political image. Any person who is lavished with prizes and money from the German government should certainly behave as unscrupulously as Wenders. This incident is typical for the Germans, who keep finding themselves being exposed for their limitless support of the war crimes and genocide being committed by Israel.

Let us not forget that Germany provides a third of the weaponry for the mass terrorism of the Zionist state, second only to the US. Such incidents as at the film festival span every aspect of life in Germany these days: the arts, academics, media, politics, government, law enforcement, the courts. What the Germans however cannot comprehend is why the world is questioning their virtuousness?

Why is it not admiring the superficial charm, grandiosity, and self-importance of the Germans instead of concentrating on their penchant for lying, hypocrisy, deception, manipulation, moral depravity, and the inability to feel remorse or guilt? The most essential element of Germans’ belief in their moral superiority is their support of Israel. They claim to have a special relationship with Israel and cite Israel’s “right to exist” as the reason of state of the German nation.

After all they have publicly displayed what they consider immeasurable remorse for their genocide against the Jews whenever an opportunity offered itself. They deny there can be any other genocide than the one they inflicted upon the European Jews because no other could be worse. They don’t regret their genocide against the Roma and Sinti in Europe or the 30 million Slavs they systematically massacred by them during the Third Reich, nor for their genocide against the Herero and Nama in Namibia for that matter.

Probably they realised early on that these groups were irrelevant for the US elite. As early as Adenauer the Germans knew that in the US the Zionists were a powerful force to be reckoned with. There is probably no nation where the elite and people support the genocide and war crimes of the Zionist state so fanatically as the Germans.

German chancellor Friedrich Merz explained in June 2025 after Israel’s decapitation strike against Iran his admiration for Israel’s war crimes that he would like Germany to be carrying out: “They’re doing our dirty work”. Former German foreign minister, Annalena “Butcher” Baerbock, in October 2024 publicly justified and supported Israel’s destruction of civilian sites such as schools and hospitals, as well as the murder of civilians in Gaza. Actually most Germans do not care about Israel or Jews, many are as anti-Semitic as their grandparents.

But their claim to shame and current support of Zionism provides them, they believe, with an unassailable exceptionalism, much as Arianism did two generations ago. And their unassailable moral virtue. In January 2024, the German governm