An Israeli filmmaker is facing heavy backlash after he used an acceptance speech at a high-profile Berlin awards ceremony to oppose the war in Gaza. Yuval Abraham, whose speech was roundly condemned by German politicians, said he has since received death threats and that his family had fled their home in Israel for safety. Standing beside his Palestinian co-director at the Berlinale film festival over the weekend, Abraham, 29, criticized his government’s treatment of Palestinians, saying: “In two days, we will go back to a land where we are not equal. … We need to call for a cease-fire.” Earlier, the co-director, Basel Adra, had said that it was “very hard for me to celebrate when there are tens of thousands of my people being slaughtered and massacred,” calling upon Germany to end weapon exports to Israel. In response, German politicians criticized the onstage remarks as “one-sided” and blamed the festival’s organizers for letting the remarks go unchallenged. Berlin Mayor Kai Wagner tweeted that the remarks were “unacceptable” and that antisemitism “has no place in …