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Yes, what about Syria?
Are Israel and the US waging a Zionist-imperial proxy war against the Assad government in Syria? It does not matter if they are, the people of Syria are rising
Posted in Israel/Palestine, Middle East
108 Comments
How many of you are uncomfortable with the phrase ‘oppression of Palestinians’? In the packed room, just a few heads nodded
Celebrated British broadcaster John McCarthy was held hostage in Lebanon 25 years ago. Now he is narrating the Nakba to a sympathetic audience at the West Cork Literary Festival
Hearts and minds, and stomachs
Get foreign foodbloggers like David Lebovitz to fall in love with Israel, and they will forgive the country if it ‘does something wrong’
Posted in BDS
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Prominent foodblogger who celebrated Israeli cuisine was hosted by org aimed at turning around country’s image
Vibe Israel is funded by granddaughter of disgraced Conservative English politician Shirley Porter. It helped pay for foodblogger David Lebovitz to trumpet Israel
Posted in Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Media, US Politics
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‘Hath not a Palestinian eyes?’: Protesters disrupt Habima performance at Globe
Yesterday, protesters disrupted a performance of ‘The Merchant of Venice’ by Israel’s National Theatre, Habima at Shakespeare’s Globe in London. The response from security and the audience was brutal leading one theater critic to write they had ‘never been in theatrical situation where I’ve felt more intimidated & surrounded by hate.’
Aharon Appelfeld’s rage at the German language (and Arendt’s need for it)
It wasn’t the German language that went crazy, Hannah Arendt explained. Israeli prize winner calls German a language of murderers
Posted in Israel/Palestine, Media
Tagged Aharon Appelfeld, Hannah Arendt, Independent foreign fiction prize
157 Comments
A tale of two festivals
Eleanor Kilroy compares Palfest and the Jerusalem International Writers Festival.
Posted in BDS, Israel/Palestine
Tagged Bidisha, International Writers Festival, PalFest, Silwan
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Pinkwashing and lifestyle liberalism
Belligerent powers in the west are pinkwashing their actions, in a bath of lifestyle liberalism
A London interruption
Things are unravelling for Israel’s apologists
Posted in Israel/Palestine
38 Comments
Palestinian writers call for boycott of Jerusalem int’l writers’ fest
Writers at int’l fest who tour East Jerusalem are gulty of ‘colonial voyeurism’, says Palestinian boycott committee
Posted in BDS
Tagged Aleksandar Hemon, The General Union of Palestinian Writers, Tracy Chevalier
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Rejecting boycott, Tom Rob Smith and Tracy Chevalier prepare for Jerusalem International Writers Festival
The Jerusalem International Writers Festival is sponsored by the Jerusalem Foundation which, together with the Jerusalem municipality and settler organizations, is responsible for projects of ethnic cleansing in Jerusalem.
Posted in BDS, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government
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Israeli dramaturgist: ‘Habima theatre is an active participant in Palestinian oppression’
The Israeli national theater’s excuse for performing in Israeli settlements — we have to, by law — is being undermined
Posted in BDS
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Jerusalem writers fest requires speakers to submit speeches for review in effort to avoid criticism of Israel
Director of the writers festival, Tal Kremer, said on Monday that “in light of what happened with Nir Baram [at the 2010 festival], we asked this year’s authors to give us the text of their speeches.”
Posted in BDS, Israel/Palestine, Occupation
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Ozick, anti-Palestinian polemicist, is shortlisted for a big prize
Cynthia Ozick’s negative statements about Palestinians have had racist overtones, something the media overlook in covering her contention for a big literary prize
Israeli Foreign Ministry: Exporting toxic culture
“Artists should create bridges where there is conflict,” complained Habima’s artistic director, Ilan Ronen, to the Observer two weeks ago, in response to the boycott of Israel’s national theatre company that performs in the illegal West Bank settlement of Ariel. Habima’s bridge-making offer should be treated with suspicion as it is courtesy of the Israeli state; on Thursday The Jewish Chronicle boasted that the Israeli Foreign Ministry, informed by the JC about a £10,000 funding shortfall at Habima, “has promised to make sure that any financial difficulties are covered to make sure the company is able to perform in London”.
Posted in BDS, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government
6 Comments
In which a fool snares a playwright
British playwright David Edgar refuses to sign an artists’ letter on boycotting an Israeli theater because he buys specious argument that it will end with boycott of Jewish stores
Posted in BDS
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English effort to boycott Israeli theater is likened to…. ‘Nazi book-burning’
Emma Thompson and Mark Rylance have been vilified for supporting boycott of Israeli theater group Habima invited to Globe festival
Posted in BDS, Israel/Palestine
12 Comments
Emma Thompson among group of prominent British actors calling on Globe theatre to withdraw invite to Israeli National Theatre
UK groups have for three months been pressing Shakespeare’s Globe to withdraw its festival invitation to Habima in response to the Palestinian call to boycott Israeli cultural institutions, and now a group of prominent actors, playwrights and directors have published … Continue reading
Posted in BDS, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Occupation
17 Comments
Kill other peoples, but not your own
The wrong lesson from Syria: It’s OK to kill another ethnic population. But not your own.
Posted in Arab Spring, Israel/Palestine, Middle East
25 Comments
Coalition of Syrian artists: Resistance liberates the imagination from slavery
Translation of a statement by a coalition of prominent Syrian cultural figures that was first published in the online edition of French newspaper Le Monde at the end of January.
Double standard for the neighbor– Paul Auster and Turkey
A fine stand American novelist Paul Auster is taking: boycott a country (in this case, in its entirety – no time for selective boycotts), and you can help expose, and attract immediate international condemnation for human rights violations. Auster to … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, BDS, Israel/Palestine
13 Comments
Israel’s national theater to bring ‘Merchant’ to World Shakespeare Fest in May
Unlike many post-Oslo normalization programs that claim to promote peaceful co-existence and respect the ‘Green Line’ – thereby obfuscating the reality of colonial power relations –, the case of the Israeli national theater company Habima presents event organizers and the … Continue reading
Posted in BDS, Israel/Palestine
8 Comments
The end of civilization: no ‘dignity’ in remaining silent at BBC Proms
In a Guardian review of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (IPO) at the BBC Proms, and referring to the boycott protests that disrupted their concert in London’s Royal Albert Hall on Thursday, classical music critic Erica Jeal praises IPO conductor, Zubin Mehta, … Continue reading
Posted in BDS, Beyondoweiss, Israel/Palestine
15 Comments
Protesters interrupted Passacaglia w/ Beethoven (more on Israel Philharmonic protest in London)
“We will picket the Proms” promised Palestine solidarity activists who had responded to a Palestinian call for a boycott of the BBC Proms concert by the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (IPO) in London. When the concert went ahead this evening, more than 40 protesters gathered … Continue reading
Posted in BDS, Israel/Palestine
160 Comments
