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A necessary prelude to peace?
by Ghada Karmi (Monday, August 9, 2010) “Beneath the official level of western governmental support for Israel, there is private disquiet about Israeli conduct. And at the popular level, there is a sea change in opinion: where Israel was once seen as the victim, it has now become the bully. In Britain, for example, the […]
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Words without Borders “dialogue” violates Palestinian boycott call
Haidar Eid, The Electronic Intifada, 9 August 2010 An initiative recently launched by the prestigious online literature magazine Words without Borders entitled “Cross-Cultural-Dialogues in the Middle East,” rings alarm bells in light of the Palestinian civil society call for boycott divestment and sanctions (BDS) on Israel. The initiators of this series of articles are Azareen […]
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Don’t let Armatrading play us as supporters of Israeli racism and apartheid
by Women of Color in the Global Women”s Strike, Bay Area Campaign to End Israeli Apartheid Joan Armatrading”s statement posted on her homepage calling on leaders of Israel and Palestine, Benjamin Netanyahu, Mahmoud Abbas and Khaled Meshal, to “take that step” to solve “the problem” is a backwards way of acknowledging protests of her recent […]
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Criticisms of Israel not anti-Semitic
Published Date: 05 August 2010 IN response to Kevin Hartley’s letter, Palestine solidarity supporters do not demonise Israel – there is much that Israelis should be duly proud of. This does not mean there are not criticisms of Israel and that these are anti-Semitic. The criticisms are that Israel violates international law and human rights […]
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BDS grows in power in Australia and Zionists don’t even wonder why (hint: the occupation)
Following the current controversy over the Melbourne Film Festival accepting money from the Zionist state, the Jewish News includes a very revealing and fearful quote: Zionist Federation of Australia president Philip Chester has spoken out against an attempt by the makers of the film Son of Babylon to boycott the Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) […]
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The cultural boycott and the outraged artist
by Eleanor Kilroy on August 5, 2010 When you arrive in Israel as an internationally-renowned artist to give a concert or accept a cultural award, it is only natural that you not be spat at and knee-capped by Jews. I say this apropos of the odd comments made over the last couple of months by […]
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Boycott : ARTISTS Supporting ISRAEL
Amitav Ghosh Amy Pascal Anne Kopelson Annette Bening Ari Emanuel Arnold Kopelson Arnon Milchan Arthur Cohn Avi Arad Ben Feingold Bernie Mac (dead) Boaz Davidson Bob Gale Branko Lustig Bruce Ramer Bruce Willis Bryan Cranston Clint Culpepper Collin Callender Cynthia PettDante Danny De Vito Danny Dimbort Daniel Adam Sussman David Cronenberg David Lonner David Matalon […]
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Three More Days to Tell Diana Krall not to Play Apartheid Israel
Only a few days left before Diana’s Israeli gig this Wednesday. Please post your messages to her in this facebook and on her own facebook: http://www.facebook.com/dianakrall On: http://www.myspace.com/dianakrall Write to Diana Krall’s management: hopper[at]hopper-management.com For your information: “Open letter from Lebanon to Diana Krall: Don”t entertain an apartheid state” http://boycottzionism.wordpress.com/open-letter-from-lebanon-to-diana-krall-don%e2%80%99t-entertain-an-apartheid-state/ Her official website: http://www.dianakrall.com/
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French university cancels writer’s conference due to anti-Israel protest
Israeli author Esther Orner says she did not expect such a decision by the University of Provence Aix-Marseille. By The Associated Press and Haaretz Service A French university has canceled a conference of Mediterranean writers after participants protested the presence of an Israeli author. The author, Esther Orner, said Sunday she wasn’t expecting the decision […]
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