An Israeli water conference in Venice is aimed at keeping the country in European spaces, but it was distinctly under-attended, and organizers inflated the numbers by putting fake names in a conference registry: Aaron Aaron, Tina Tina, Jeffy Jeffy and Yaw Yaw.
On April 16, the international Cartoons on the Bay animation festival will kick off in Venice, Italy. The festival and will be awarding Israel the Pulcinella Award 2015 as a tribute to the country’s ability to produce “interesting, original and innovative” animated cartoons despite its “delicate geopolitical context.” In an open letter to festival organizers, BDS Italy asked what criteria was used to select Israel as “guest country” to a festival of animation for children “when it has shown that it has absolutely no regard or respect for Palestinian youth and children?”
Italian construction firm Pizzarotti is stupefied, bewildered, stunned. In an article on today’s Corriere della…