The ground really is shifting. Here's incredible video from Israel of Israeli boycott activists trying to submarine the Cape Town Opera House's performance of "Porgy and Bess" in Tel Aviv last night. Boycott apartheid! they sing. Note the big turnout of activists, the inspiring songs. Ynet reports 40 activists. Wow. This is inside Israel. And it's civil society: people of conscience around the world waking up to the humiliation and dispossession and statelessness of the Palestinians-- and seeing that they can take action.
the crack keeps getting wider. Will Israel save Israel?
So hush little Bibi, don’t you cry…
RE: “So hush little Bibi, don’t you cry…” – Avi
MY REPLY: That little piggy went “Wee! Wee! Wee!” all the way home.
I think I just saved 15% or more on my car insurance.
good one
Wow!
So cool to see people getting it together and rehearsing it good.
Brilliant, inspiring, and moving.
Avi :: perfect! (Especially the “hush” part.)
I’m here to please.
PS. Can’t wait to hear how RW will find fault with THIS form of protest…
Does it violate Tel-Aviv city ordinance 99.726B-3 on noise abatement, Municipal Code Section 27.913?
WOW how huge. brilliant. i think i recognized sarah benning. what stars these people are!
Lifted my morning to watch this. Two snaps and a hooray.
The cultural part of BDS gonna do in apartheid Israel, just as it* did in apartheid South Africa.
*especially the boycott of S. Africa’s rugby team
Looks pretty violent to me. Why isn’t the IDF there to defend Israel?
OMG, it’s another tsunami earthquake hurricane monsoon.
It’s 40 radicals protesting in one of the most multicultural and left-wing cities on Earth. Whoopdi freakin’ doo.
I spend a lot of time declaring that all Israeli Jews are heartless brutes with no sense of decency. Can’t you be happy that these people are proving me wrong?
“40 radicals protesting in one of the most multicultural and left-wing cities on Earth.”
not entirely
“Residents of south Tel Aviv are stepping up their fight against the foreign workers and African refugees living among them.
On Tuesday, 100 people attended what they called an emergency meeting in the Hatikvah neighborhood, following the murder of an Eritrean woman by her husband on Friday. [...] The residents called on the authorities to expel the foreigners, complaining they were violent, drunk and sexually harassing women. Many said they were afraid to go out after dark. [...] Several people called out from the audience, “We hate them, they are stealing everything they can, they behave like animals and they are chasing our girls.” The residents agreed that landlords and business owners need to be pressured not to hire or rent apartments to foreigners, as the Bnai Brak municipality decided last week regarding foreigners in Pardes Katz. They also complained that the media supports the foreigners without exposing what life is like in the neighborhoods. Several also called for protest measures such as demonstrating, blocking roads and burning tires.”
link to haaretz.com
link to haaretz.com
hophmi ~ I want you to remember REAL GOOD that you think BDS isn’t/won’t/can’t go anywhere.
The might-is-right crowd have been saying this since 2005 yet, in just 5 years, we have governments divesting, and protests/actions getting international news coverage. This is much faster than South Africa. And you know what happened to apartheid there. You do know right?
[Also from within Israel, disparaging reference to government promotion of "Zionist works" from the viewpoint of Israeli artists.]
* Latest update 19:39 15.11.10
Culture minister to meet Ariel arts center boycott organizers
Hundreds of theater actors and public figures have signed petition against performing in new Ariel arts center as a protest of Israel’s settlement policies.
By City Mouse Online Tags: Israel news Ariel Israel settlements
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The protest has been supported by over 150 academics who signed the petition.
Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman had said that he would act against the boycotting artists by halting direct funding of their travel expenses for shows abroad and by preventing their appearances before state bodies.
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Meanwhile, the actors and academics circulated a second petition calling to boycott the recently opened center in Ariel writing, “we, the undersigned, express our concern and fears regarding Culture Minister Limor Livnat’s initiative to force actors and artists to perform in the settlement against their will – while simultaneously hand out awards to what she refers to as Zionist works.”
link to haaretz.com
The demonstration made two main points.
1. Some Israelis are against the occupation.
2. White people can’t dance.