“Magazine,” a Saturday night news show on Channel 10, announced Feb. 20 that it had a major scoop. Dor Glick, its correspondent in Germany, had obtained exclusive footage of film director Udi Aloni referring to the Israeli government as “fascist.” The incident took place toward the end of this year's Berlinale, one of the most important film festivals in the world. Aloni’s entry, “Junction 48,” won the prestigious Audience Award in the Panorama fiction film category.
“Pay close attention to what our Channel 10 news camera caught,” the correspondent stressed to the show’s host and his audience at home, drawing everyone’s attention to his journalistic coup. “He didn’t realize that he was on camera.” Glick couldn’t emphasize it enough. He continued to repeat Aloni’s comment that by providing Israel with submarines, German Chancellor Angela Merkel was aiding and abetting Israel’s fascist government. On three separate occasions, the correspondent and hostess reiterated that Aloni's award-winning film, about a hip-hop performance in the Israeli town of Lod that was used to protest the occupation, had been funded by the Ministry of Culture and the Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts. “This was highlighted at the beginning and end of the film,” Glick noted.