The BBC reports that protesters disrupted a Thursday evening performance of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra at the Royal Albert Hall in London. The BBC, which was broadcasting the concert live, took it off the air, brought it back, and then took it off again an hour later when the protest resumed, according to the report. The BBC's "Proms Team" tweeted an apology, blaming "sustained audience disturbance."
The orchestra's About Us page boasts that it gives "special concerts for IDF soldiers at their outposts." The foundation that supports it calls it "Israel’s musical ambassador," and the American Friends of the IPO observe that "the IPO is Israel’s finest cultural emissary" and that "[t]he goodwill created by [its] tours, which have included historic visits to Japan, Argentina, Poland, Hungary, Russia, China and India, is of enormous value to the State of Israel."
well done & true. nonviolence at its best!
That video made my day.
They should not be allowed to sell Israeli goods on an unlit street in the middle of the night without a bullhorn protest
for some reason i am reminded of the scene from the movie titanic of the musicians playing beautiful music as the ship was sinking.
Beautiful music played by an orchestra from a system that is built on cruelty.
And it’s wonderful to see politics in action. You can see the ground shifting slowly.
Exactly, Annie. An enormous degree of pathos as these musicians and their supportive audience members try, try so hard, to keep shutting out the untenable reality they are supporting. They are human. But the cruelty they tacitly or overtly support is inhuman, and causes infinitely more suffering than an interrupted concert.
As long as Palestinians don’t live in peace with justice, Israelis never will again — won’t even be able to pretend for much longer. It’s that simple.
The Rite of Autumn and its riot. Or at least, late summer.
One of the compositions interrupted was Anton Webern’s “Passacaglia.” This video is of the Bruch Violin Concerto.
Webern was shot shortly after the end of WWII by an American soldier who was trying to bust a smuggling ring in which Webern’s son, a Wehrmacht veteran, was alleged to be a participant.
Another stain on brand-Israel. Outstanding!
BDS in its essence.
Disruption only.
Really?
No impact on those of us who have seen and heard this effort?
As opposed to Zionism in its essense! Death, death and more death if your skin is darker than a certain shade and you speak a language that isn’t either European or synthesized from European elements overlayed on a genuine Semitic language.
Chaos, in case you are interested in the demographics of Jews in Israel(Zionists):
As for this European synthesized nonsense, the same can be said for modern Arabic and another newer language.
link to en.wikipedia.org
DBG
Who spoke hebrew at home around the family dinner table in 1850?
What childrens games were played using Hebrew in 1750?
Modern Hebrew is to Arabic as formula is to breast milk.
Disruption, education, provocation, urgency, commitment, solidarity.
You’re just miffed that BDS is succeeding, and so quickly.
It is always interesting to me to see otherwise intelligent and civilized people, trying to rip signs and banners from the hands of people who are trying to stop un-intelligent and uncivilized behavior.
I’ve never seen otherwise decent, modern people turn so shockingly rabid as when the subject is Zionism. It reminds me exactly of the behavior of “decent white Southern folks” when Jim Crow was crumbling. Church ladies screaming at little black girls as they were just walking to school. Utter madness as hard-wired parts of their brains are being unraveled by reality.
Thanks for your comment.
I’ve been hearing here on MW and on a video from Omar B., and from the BDS site and from Mazin Q., about how close the Palestinian cause is to gaining ultimate success…based on the timing/progress/success of the S.A. example. I just wasn’t seeing it.
But, your post helped.
You all may be right.
I sure hope so….I better donate all around this weekend to help bring the tipping point closer.
Awesome. Not sure if this is a concerted effort to attack “the dignified” but that is exactly what needs to be done. There are plenty of well heeled “members of society” that are either complicit of willfully ignorant (which, to me is complicit as well); “disrupting” their night at the symphony is a real affront to their sensibilities, which is why its BRILLIANT.
The symphony crowd, I hate to say, are the enemy. Its not good enough to wage street protests, the “establishment” dont walk the streets. You gotta burst their bubble, let them worry about their night at the opera being disrupted, or their 5k a plate fundraiser being disrupted. More, more more!!!!