Al Jazeera: “Arundhati Roy ‘shocked’ by
jury’s Gaza remarks, quits Berlin film festival”
Shrikant G Talageri
Basically Israel is able (at
least I hope so) to counter Jew-hater woke leftists and their anti-Jewish propaganda.
There is no need for me to write on it. But on seeing one of the more “eminent”,
and among the most rabidly slavering Hindu-hating Indian woke leftist, writers,
and a darling of the International Breaking India Forces alliance, choosing to
spew venom on Israel, I could not resist the urge to shove in my
oar.
An article in Al-Jazeera with the above headline (“Arundhati Roy ‘shocked’ by jury’s Gaza remarks, quits Berlin film festival”) tells us: “Indian author Arundhati Roy has announced that she is withdrawing from the Berlin International Film Festival after what she described as “unconscionable statements” by its jury members about Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza.
Writing in India’s The Wire newspaper, Roy said she found recent remarks from members of the Berlinale jury, including its chair, acclaimed director Wim Wenders, that “art should not be political” to be “jaw-dropping”.”
What she
means basically is not just that “art should be political” but that “art
should be militarily and viciously anti-Hindu and anti-Jewish in political matters”,
and that any failure to be so is “jaw-dropping”.
As the
article explains: ““It is a way of shutting down a
conversation about a crime against humanity even as it unfolds before us in
real time,” wrote Roy, the author of novels and nonfiction, including The God
of Small Things.
“I am shocked and disgusted,” Roy wrote,
adding that she believed “artists, writers and filmmakers should be doing
everything in their power to stop” the war in Gaza.
“Let me say this clearly: what has
happened in Gaza, what continues to happen, is a genocide of the Palestinian
people by the State of Israel,” she wrote.”
What anyone
not completely overpowered by hatred would notice is that seeing the way in
which Hindus are being wiped out of Bangladesh she should have been saying: “I am shocked and disgusted…artists, writers and filmmakers
should be doing everything in their power to stop the ethnic cleansing of
Hindus in Bangladesh. Let me say this clearly: what has happened in Bangladesh,
what continues to happen, is a genocide of the Bangladeshi Hindu people by the
State of Bangladesh.” Does she say this, and does she have the
common decency to acknowledge that her failure to say it represents the standard
attitude and behavior on the part of hate-obsessed woke leftist pseudo-intellectuals
which should lead to “jaw-dropping” all
around? How many countless times have these hate-filled sub-human beings not “shut
down conversations” in the matter of what is happening to Hindus in Bangladesh,
or Pakistan or Afghanistan? They even opposed the extremely
lame-duck “Citizenship
(Amendment) Act, 2019 (CAA)” that was passed by the Parliament of India on December 11,
2019, and received Presidential assent on December 12, 2019, on the ground that
even a “conversation about a crime against
human Hindus in neighboring Muslim countries, even as it unfolded before us in
real time”, and (even
pretended) attempts to help the victims, somehow amounted to a “crime against Muslims in India”.
For the record again (already pointed out by me in
many articles before this), the population of Muslims in India has only
been increasing. In an earlier article I had quoted another Aljazeera article
which inadvertently admitted that “the share of the Muslim population in India increased
by 43.15 percent, from 9.84 percent to 14.09 percent. By contrast … the
share of the majority Hindu population decreased by 7.82 percent
between 1950 and 2015, from 84.68 percent to 78.06 percent.”
And in Bangladesh, a question on Google “percentage
of Hindus in Bangladesh in 1946 as compared to 2025” gives us the following
data: “In 1946,
Hindus constituted approximately 28% to 30% of the population in the region that is now Bangladesh (then East Bengal). By 2025, this figure is estimated to have declined
significantly to approximately 7.9% to 8%.”
Millions of Hindus in Bangladesh did not evaporate into the
air between 1946 and 2025: they fell from 28-30% of the population to 8%
because of ongoing “genocide of the Bangladeshi Hindu people by the State of Bangladesh”. At
the same time, Muslims in India did not multiply like Raktabeej with
new Muslims springing up from every drop of Muslim blood spilt by
Hindus in genocides: they multiplied because they are not only not
ill-treated but they are given special privileges denied to India’s
Hindus.
Exactly the same is the case with Israel: a question
on Google “percentage of Muslims in Israel in 1948 as compared to
2025” gives us the following data: “In 1948, Muslims made up approximately 9% to 10% of the population in the newly established State of
Israel, whereas in 2025, they represent approximately 18% of the population.”
Contrast this with the case in Arab Countries: A question on
Google “percentage of Jews in Arab countries in 1946 as compared to 2025”
gave the following AI Overview answer:
“The Jewish population in Arab countries has experienced a
near-total collapse between 1946 and 2025, dropping from a population of
approximately 850,000 to 1,000,000 in the mid-1940s to fewer
than 13,000 by 2025. This represents a decrease of over 99% of the
population, leaving many of these regions, including Libya, Iraq, and Yemen,
almost entirely "Jew-free".
Jewish Population in Arab
Countries (1946–1948 vs. 2025)
The following estimates
reflect the major Jewish populations across the Arab world and Iran, which was
often included in regional statistics.
|
Region/Country |
Approx. Population (1946–1948) |
Estimated Population (2025) |
|
Morocco |
~265,000 (1948) |
~2,500 |
|
Algeria |
~140,000 (1948) |
~0 |
|
Iraq |
~135,000 (1948) |
~5 |
|
Tunisia |
~105,000 (1948) |
~1,500 |
|
Egypt |
~75,000 (1948) |
~2 |
|
Yemen (incl. Aden) |
~55,000 (1948) |
~1 |
|
Libya |
~38,000 (1948) |
~0 |
|
Syria |
~30,000 (1948) |
~3 |
|
Lebanon |
~5,000 (1948) |
~50 |
|
Iran (Non-Arab) |
~100,000 (1948) |
~8,756 |
|
Total (Approx.) |
~950,000+ |
~13,000 |
Key Drivers of
Demographic Change
·
1946–1950s: The first large-scale exoduses took place
following the 1947 UN Partition Plan and the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. Over 90% of
Jews left countries like Iraq, Yemen, and Libya.
·
Persecution and Political Shifts: The rise of Arab
nationalism, anti-Jewish riots (such as the 1941 Farhud in Iraq and 1945 riots
in Libya), and anti-Zionist policies created an unsafe environment.
·
Emigration: Many Jews were expelled, had their citizenship
revoked (e.g., Libya), or faced severe restrictions, leading to mass migration
to Israel, France, and the United States.
·
2025 Status: The remaining populations are elderly and
heavily concentrated in just a few countries (primarily Morocco and Tunisia).
Note:
In 1946, the Jewish population in the British Mandate of Palestine (which
became Israel) was roughly 543,000 (about 30% of that area's population), which
was a separate demographic trend from the rapid decline of communities in
neighboring Arab states.”
The complete wiping out of Jews from Arab
countries also “unfolded before us in real time” without any comments from these hate-merchants, and the slow
wiping out of Hindus from Pakistan and Bangladesh, “what has happened… and what continues to happen… a genocide of the
Bangladeshi Hindu
people by the State of Bangladesh”, is also “unfolding
before us in real time” without any comments from these hate-merchants, who
in fact continue to fully support the perpetrators of these genocides by firstly
completely blanking out the details of these slow genocides in the
woke-controlled media, politically providing full support to the perpetrators
of the genocides, and finally portraying the victims of the genocides as
perpetrators of genocides.
And note: the millions on millions of Muslim refugees crowding
European countries and slowly and irrevocably changing the
demographic situation in Europe to their advantage are not refugees
from “genocides” in Israel or India (as already pointed
out by me in an earlier article): Muslims are happily thriving and prospering in Israel and India. They are (or claim to be) refugees
from “genocides” in Muslim countries:
https://talageri.blogspot.com/2025/10/israel-palestinians-and-india-some.html
So these highly privileged and mercenary merchants of hate pretending to be flag-bearers of “humanitarianism” can stop their “jaw-dropping” dramas and crocodile tears. No-one will be fooled except those predisposed and determined to be fooled.
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