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Organizers of Berlin’s annual film festival distanced the event from an anti-Israel Instagram post on the Middle East conflict that was previously published on one of the Berlinale’s accounts. “Panorama’s Instagram channel was hacked today and statements were posted about the Middle East war that do not originate from the festival and do not represent the position of the Berlinale,” a festival spokesperson told dpa on Sunday evening. “The fact that someone is misusing a Berlinale social media channel for anti-Semitic hate speech is intolerable,” the spokesperson said. The posts were deleted im…

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