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TIFF focus on Tel Aviv draws Protest
International group of artists decries festival’s complicity with ‘Israeli propaganda machine’ Michael Posner Last updated on Thursday, Sep. 03, 2009 02:07PM EDT An international group of more than 50 prominent filmmakers, writers, artists and academics – including Ken Loach, David Byrne, Naomi Klein, Alice Walker, Jane Fonda, Wallace Shawn and Danny Glover – has signed […]
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The Toronto Declaration: No Celebration of Occupation
Wednesday, September 2, 2009 An Open Letter to the Toronto International Film Festival: September 2, 2009 As members of the Canadian and international film, culture and media arts communities, we are deeply disturbed by the Toronto International Film Festival”s decision to host a celebratory spotlight on Tel Aviv. We protest that TIFF, whether intentionally or […]
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Boycotts don’t equal censorship
Film-makers should support the growing international movement to boycott Israel – it’s wrong to cast our actions as censorship * Ken Loach, Rebecca O’Brien and Paul Laverty * guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 1 September 2009 09.10 BST When we decided to pull our film Looking for Eric from the Melbourne International Film festival following our discovery that […]
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Curators pull out of Tel Aviv art biennial over Gaza war protest
By Liora Kaplan Two international curators who were to participate in the planning of ArtTLV, an art biennial taking place in Israel in September, have pulled out of the project after their Israeli counterparts refused to publish articles condemning Israel’s Operation Cast Lead in Gaza and to arrange a symposium on art and war. The […]
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Israel and Academic Freedom
August 31, 2009 Neve Gordon has no illusions about the ability of Palestinian terrorists to harm Israelis. In 1986, while serving as a paratrooper on Israel’s border with Lebanon, he suffered severe injuries from hand grenades and bullets. These days, Gordon is under a very different kind of attack — one that he and other […]
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Did Leviev’s Empire Succumb to Boycott?
On 31 August 2009, Lev Leviev, the sixth richest Israeli according to Forbes Magazine, convened a press conference and announced that his company Africa Israel will be unable to meet its financial obligations and repay its debts on time. Leviev’s debt is estimated at nearly Euro 1.4 billion. While this tycoon said in August 2008 […]
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Tutu to Haaretz: Arabs paying the price of the Holocaust
By Akiva Eldar, Haaretz Correspondent “The lesson that Israel must learn from the Holocaust is that it can never get security through fences, walls and guns,” Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu of South Africa told Haaretz Thursday. Commenting on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s statement in Germany Thursday that the lesson of the Holocaust is that Israel […]
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AUSTRALIA’S BIGGEST DESALINATION PLANT TO SECURE WATER AND JOBS
Thursday, 30 July 2009 The Premier, John Brumby, today announced the AquaSure consortium had been awarded the contract to build Australia”s biggest desalination plant, which will secure Victoria”s water supplies, deliver as many as 1700 direct new jobs and help ease tough water restrictions. Mr Brumby said the Victorian Government selected AquaSure, consisting of Suez […]
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UNITED NATIONS INTERNATIONAL MEETING ON QUESTION OF PALESTINE OPENS IN GENEVA TO DISCUSS ISSUES SURROUNDING GAZA WAR
Speakers Call Attacks on Civilians War Crimes and Possibly Crimes against Humanity and Call for Independent Investigations 22 July 2009 An international meeting on the question of Palestine, organized by the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, opened today in Geneva to discuss the responsibility of the international community […]
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Jews plan Israel’s boycott
By Leon Symons, July 30, 2009 The JC has revealed plans developed by Jews For Justice For Palestinians (JFJFP) to cause maximum damage to Israel by extending boycotts. At the anti-Israel organisation”s recent annual meeting, activists discussed a survey of its members which showed clear support for a comprehensive boycott. More than 400 JFJFP activists […]
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