Controversy "dogs" the Toronto International Film Festival, due to the boycott of the fest as a tool of Israel’s international "propaganda machine." So says the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. Good story.
The Star says that a prominent American rabbi is opposed to the boycott. David Cronenberg and Norman Jewison are too, filmmakers. I think Cronenberg made the Krays? Weird cat. You’d think he’d be with boycott, out of some sympathy for the wretched of the earth.
"Shocking,": says the National Post, David Frum’s newspaper…
Globe and Mail is also opposed to boycott of the sunshine-on-Tel Aviv film festival…
Haaretz. The best as usual. Straight news story on Palestinians calling for a boycott of the festival.