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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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BOYCOTT THOSE WHO REFUSE TO BOYCOTT
The artists who refuse to honour the cultural boycott against apartheid in Israel need a wake up call…… THEIR DVD”s, cassettes, videos and wherever else their works appear must be boycotted, perhaps then they will get the message. Artists that have performed in Israel in the past year include… Paul McCartney Paul Anka The Pet […]
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Lettre de l’AURDIP aux lauréats du prix de la fondation Wolf 2010
29 Avril 2010 | AURDIP, BRICUP, Campagna Diritto allo Studio e Libertí Accademica in Palestina, CUNCAP | Téléchargez cette lettre au format PDF Download the letter as a pdf file Sir David Baulcombe? (University of Cambridge, Cambridge, Britain) Professor Shing-Tung Yau? (Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts USA) Professor Dennis Sullivan? (Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY […]
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Atwood and Amitav Accept Soiled Money
Yesterday, Canadian author Margaret Atwood and Indian author Amitav Ghosh accepted the one million dollar Dan David Prize, funded by a wealthy Zionist philanthropist. Palestinian civil society urged them not to accept the prize. They did. They crossed the picket line, arguing that novelists and authors have a unique right to cross picket lines under […]
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