Overview
- In a guest essay for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, the producer says a sector that champions diversity is quiet when Jewish life needs protection.
- He reports that no film schools, major broadcasters, leading production companies or trade bodies have signed the cross‑border Five‑Point Plan unveiled Thursday.
- Industry responses he cites include calls for neutrality, semantic objections about the term Semite, and concerns that signing would be viewed as taking Israel’s side.
- He argues neutrality toward hatred is impossible and says silence cedes the narrative to those who present antisemitism as legitimate political discourse.
- The plan has backing from figures such as Herta Müller and Ferdinand von Schirach under the patronage of Felix Klein, Wolfram Weimer and Charlotte Knobloch, with proposals to criminalize calls to destroy a state, install antisemitism officers in institutions and secure Jewish holiday observance.