Pro-Palestine organizers plan multiple protests at the Venice Film Festival from August 27 to September 6, calling on the festival to denounce "the genocide in Palestine perpetrated by Israel." Over a dozen protesters arrived at the red carpet on August 27, chanting "Free, free Palestine" and "Stop, stop genocide" while waving Palestinian flags. Organizers announced an August 30 march down Santa Maria Elisabetta avenue expected to draw hundreds and backed by signatures from political groups, associations and groups from the Veneto region and beyond. Italian political groups characterize the denial of humanitarian aid as a strategy of genocide and demand the festival take a public stance, including calls to disinvite certain artists.
At a time when the eyes of the world will be on Venice and the Film Festival, we have a duty to make the voices of all those who are outraged and rebelling heard: let us therefore turn the spotlight of the Festival on Palestine,
The denial of humanitarian aid, water and food is a strategy of genocide, carried out with the complicity of the U.S. and European governments, including the Italian one, which continues to support Israel economically, politically and diplomatically, continuing to supply weapons and maintaining trade agreements,
We have been asked to turn down invitations to artists; we will not do that," Venice chief Alberto Barbera said at Wednesday's pre
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