German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has condemned statements criticizing Israel’s mass bombing of Gaza during Berlin’s film festival at the weekend. Scholz agrees “that such a one-sided position cannot be allowed to stand,” said deputy government spokeswoman Christiane Hoffmann in Berlin on Monday. In any debate on this topic, it is important to keep in mind what triggered this renewed escalation of the conflict – namely the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, the spokeswoman said. In an awards ceremony concluding the Berlinale, Palestinian filmmaker Basel Adra accepted an award for his docum…