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BDS Success! Elvis Costello Cancels his shows in Apartheid Israel
It Is After Considerable Contemplation…. It is after considerable contemplation that I have lately arrived at the decision that I must withdraw from the two performances scheduled in Israel on the 30th of June and the 1st of July. One lives in hope that music is more than mere noise, filling up idle time, whether […]
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USACBI Open Letter to Joan Armatrading: Don’t Play Apartheid Israel
Dear Joan Armatrading, What message will you deliver to the Palestinian people? In April 2000, you sang “The Messenger,” your tribute song to Nelson Mandela, paying homage to the man who would not abide apartheid in his homeland, and devoted his life to ending it. The image of a free Mandela smiling and dancing on […]
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Apartheid = Immoral Order
Authors Margaret Atwood and Amitav Ghosh are well known for works centered around oppression and colonialism with an anti-war stance. Tel-Aviv University is one of the prime targets of the academic boycott, for its support and part in Israel”s violent occupation over the Palestinian people. The Dan David Prize is one of those high-profile awards […]
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Amitav Ghosh’s Reply to Letter of May 7
May 14, 2010 Dear Signatories to the letter of May 7: I am sorry I have been slow to respond to your letter expressing disappointment in my decision to to accept the Dan David prize. I will attempt to do so now. You begin by describing my work as dwelling “consistently on histories of colonialism […]
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Margaret Atwood believes in dialogue, unless she is criticized, and she likes submissive natives as well
My previous post, Novelistic Scabs, criticizing Atwood and Ghosh, didn’t get approved in the comments to her posting of the two’s “acceptance speech” for the Dan David prize on Atwood’s blog. It was deleted twice. She does allow critical views. My post wasn’t more critical than other comments she let through. It was more detailed, […]
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Margaret Atwood Cashes In
By Jennifer Matsui Novelist Margaret Atwood”s decision to travel to Tel Aviv to share a literary prize worth a million dollars has ignited a controversy in which the septuagenarian author and vice-president of the literary human rights organization PEN International has come under fire by Palestinian rights activists. Ms Atwood”s acceptance of the Dan David […]
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Take Action: Boycott Israeli Jazz Festival in New York
A FESTIVAL OF ISRAELI JAZZ NY 2010 Curated by Roberto Rodriguez New York has become a Mecca for many young Israeli musicians, and percussionist/composer Roberto Rodriguez has focused his tenure at The Stone on New York’s thriving Israeli New Jazz scene. A fabulous week of music featuring some of the most exciting young players now […]
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Novelistic Scabs
Amitav Ghosh and Margaret Atwood decided to accept a literary prize in Israel. The prize, half a million dollar each, donated by an Israeli billionaire who owns photo booths, was to be handed to them at Tel Aviv University, which “boasts of 55 joint technological projects with the Israeli army”, by war criminal Shimon Peres. […]
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