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Showing posts with label Cultural Boycott of Israel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cultural Boycott of Israel. Show all posts
To readers of this blog, and more generally, Sandra Watfa is probably the best-known public face of the anti-Israel Inminds group.
Her uncompromising sentiments are encapsulated, inter alia, in this recent post:
On 30 November Inminds projected a slide show onto the walls of the BBC's Broadcasting House in London, protesting the holding of the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest in Israel.
Yes. Arch-BDSer Alex Seymour (aka Seymour Alexander) was, as usual, on hand to record the event (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHiA4MaPBfQ) 'Nearly 150 Artists, including Eurovision winners, judges and
broadcasters have all supported the Palestinian call to boycott the
Eurovision Song Contest 2019 if held in Israel' Inminds itself reports, and goes on to quote its chairman, Abbas Ali, as saying 'It's unacceptable that something as culturally prestigious as the
iconic Eurovision Song Contest, which is meant to bring people together
through music, is handed over to an apartheid regime ... We are here to
ask the BBC to serve its licence payers by taking a moral stand against
racism, and pull out of next years Eurovision if its held in Israel.' It reports, too, that
'The projection lasted over an hour during which time many passers by and BBC employees came to congratulate us for voicing their own concerns of how inappropriate it would be for the Eurovision to be hosted by Israel, and shameful for the BBC to support it.' [Emphasis added]
Outside the Jinjuu restaurant in London's Soho on 9 November, Israel-haters from the Islamic-founded BDS-pushing Inminds group target the head chief, Judy Joo, demanding that she join other chefs invited to take part in a culinary show in Tel Aviv by turning down the invitation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cdrGqzIn9A
(Video by Alex Seymour, aka Seymour Alexander)
A hop over the North Sea to Copenhagen. This video shows about 150 to 200 totalitarian Leftists, rabid haters of Israel and champions of Islamofascism that they are, yelling "Nazi Pigs!" at a group of people (with an Israeli flag) mournfully commemorating the 80th anniversary of Kristallnacht.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ikct54XayBQ
More, by way of background, here. Who, one is moved to ask, are the true "Nazi pigs"?
"America's Rabbi" (as he describes himself) Shmuley Boteach has never, to put it mildly, shied away from publicity, and if you look at his Facebook page you'll see that he's been getting very excited each time a news outlet reports on this ad, which he's taken out in the Washington Post.
The ad does make excellent points regarding Lorde's decision to cancel her June gig in Tel Aviv (about which the great David Collier posted so very eloquently here).
The antisemites are, of course, out in force, attacking the rabbi and da Joos Khazars in intemperate terms. But many supporters of Israel are questioning whether taking out this ad was wise, arguing, inter alia, that it has given inordinate publicity to a Kiwi performer who's not been exactly a household name and that Boteach's stunt will backfire, being interpreted as bullying, and making as many converts to the odious BDS cause as it would hope to allay.
As the antipodean J-Wire service reports:
'.... A spokesperson for the New Zealand Jewish Council said: “The advertisement funded by The World Values Network does not promote understanding or engagement. The New Zealand Jewish Council is committed to dialogue and tolerance and distances itself from the inflammatory and aggressive material that stoops to the level of BDS rather than rising above it ....'
The huge kerfuffle over Lorde has, incidentally, tended to obscure a victory for the BDS movement in November that has been the subject of this triumphalist video featuring the plummy-voiced London-based Sandra Watfa from Inminds.
It concerns hip hop artist Rag'n'Bone Man's (Rory Charles Graham's) decision to cancel his gig in Tel Aviv scheduled for next May, and we see the decision played out in real time, as it were, with his manager liaising with anti-Israel protesters outside his concert in Brixton, South London demanding that he do so, and telling them that their demo has convinced Rag'n'Bone man not to go ahead.
Here's the guy who gives a whole new meaning to the term "football fanatic", before the game at Watford last Saturday with the usual Israel-demonising blarney and accompanying banners and leaflets.
Crowds are noticeably absent ("Maintenance work on the train network in preparation for
Crossrail probably kept a lot of supporters away", explains video-maker Alex Seymour/Seymour Alexander in uploading the footage to YouTube.)
The campaign to expel Israel from FIFA has hit a snag, and the star of the video forlornly fumes against UEFA.
Outside Wembley Stadium in London on 20 August, Israel haters familiar and not so familiar appear in this by no means uninteresting footage by video-maker and staunch BDSer Alex Seymour/Seymour Alexander, according to whom (we don't see them, unfortunately) pro-Israel passers-by made their feelings known.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWEpdgp9fZE
There's the loquacious Irishman who constantly campaigns to have Israel thrown out of Fifa (the campaign literature has now been translated into several languages, we hear him say.
There's the rather plummy-voiced grey-haired lady who's a ubiquitous sidekick to Sandra Watfa (the lady seen on many a Seymour video who inveighs against Israel at countless demos in London including, this year, the Al Quds Day excrescence). Here outside the stadium Sandra's sidekick is seen handing out leaflets to football fans arriving for the game.
Another familiar Israel-hater is the little lady of Jewish origin whose "Israel is an apartheid state" spiel in front of Seymour's lens includes a plaintive charge that "The media seem to focus on how wonderful Israel is". (Ever watched the BBC, darling?)*
A young woman in sun glasses tells Seymour that she has been "a life-long supporter of Palestine," that "Unfortunately they [those pesky Zionists] have a lot of support, a lot of power ... a lot of lobbying, a lot of power" and asserts that, to turn the tide, "We need to support Jeremy Corbyn — back him all the way ..."
But my favourite scene in the video comes when Seymour asks a darkly handsome young man in a keffiyah, who's expressed appreciation of the demo, "Where are you from?"
"I'm from Gaza" the smiling young man replies.
"You managed to get out?"
"Yah!" the Gazan readily assures Seymour. He'll be returning home in a month's time.
(Not the answer to the Israel-haters' prayers, eh, undermining as it does the "Gaza is a prison" trope that's part and parcel of their bag of tricks.)
*Talking of the BBC, see BBC Watch here for the despicable claim of BBC World Service correspondent Max Pearson that ".... Just the phrase ‘tension in the Middle East’ has become shorthand for referencing the decades of mistrust between Jews and Arabs following the creation of the State of Israel, carved – as it was – out of land which had belonged to the Palestinians...."
"We are living in a crazy time ... in a world of total and absolute chaos ... As a growth industry antisemitism has become immense ... Europe is under siege ... Jeremy Corbyn is promoting the worst form of leftist antisemitism and he himself is a primitive troglodyte ... "
That's just part of Isi Leibler's compelling introduction to Dr Manfred Gerstenfeld discussing "the British Disease".
To quote the uploader of this long video, the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs:
"In recent months, a large number of extreme anti-Semitic expressions by elected representatives of the British Labour Party have come to light. The publicity has forced Labour, which is under the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn, to investigate antisemitism, Islamophobia, and racism in the party. The antisemitism issue is overshadowed by the many consequences of Brexit, which include a major crisis in Labour.
Dr Manfred Gerstenfeld is the former Chairman of the Board of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. His many books deal with European-Israeli and European-Jewish issues. He received the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Journal for the Study of Anti-Semitism, and the International Leadership Award by the Simon Wiesenthal Center."
In this recently issued video from the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Adam Shay, a Jerusalem Center expert on the cultural boycott of Israel, answers Lenny Ben-David's question "Has the Cultural Boycott of Israel Peaked?"
To quote the uploader:
"In the 2016 concert season, there is no shortage of international performers coming to Israel and virtually all categories are represented. The South African rave-rap duo Die Antwoord, one of the hottest names around, was a prime target for BDS activity. However, the band paid little or no attention to this and once they took the stage in Tel Aviv they told the boycott activists exactly what they thought of them.
Guitar icon Carlos Santana had cancelled his performance in Israel back in 2010 when the cultural boycott was at its height. This is why Santana's recent performance in Tel Aviv was so important. The fact that a performer of iconic status, who has in the past cancelled a performance, now feels it is safe and legitimate to return, tells us that as far as the cultural boycott is concerned, the worst may very well be behind us."
As for the craziness that engulfs Europe, this new article makes grim reading indeed.
The usual suspects demonstrating here on 25 March are unhappy about the Globe Theatre company's upcoming performance of Hamlet on 30 March in Tel Aviv at the Cameri Theatre.
To quote the uploader, Inminds.com, chaired by Abbas Ali:
'A letter to the Globe's artistic director Dominic Dromgoole, written on the day of the protest, by senior British theatre figures, and Palestinian theatre and cultural groups, asking Shakespeare’s Globe theatre not to perform at the Cameri Theatre was read out at the protest along with speeches and street theatre'.
The wonderful Israeli dance company Batsheva is appearing at l'Opéra Garnier de Paris until 9th January, delighting audiences with their performance.
On hand on opening night was a crowd of Israel-demonisers, demonstrating outside the theatre. Some, inside, managed briefly to disrupt other people's pleasure.
Read about it (in French) here; brief video of the demo outside the theatre, and the queues waiting to watch Batsheva, at source.
Rather read about it in English?
Yep, so would I:
'A few dozen pro-Palestinian activists tried to disrupt a performance by the Batsheva Israeli dance company in Paris on Tuesday night.
Several dozen protesters held a demonstration outside the Opéra de Paris, but a number of pro-Palestinian activists managed to get inside where they draped Palestinian flags and shouted anti-Israel slogans.
A number of pro-Palestinian activist groups released a statement prior to the performance calling for it's members to demonstrate against it....
Despite security checks, several protesters wearing keffiyehs (an Arabic headdress) and waving Palestinian flags called for a boycott of Israel, shouting "a racist gang in the Opéra Garnier", "We do not dance with apartheid" and "murderer Israel, Palestine will conquer." The demonstrators also accused the Paris Opera of "complicity with the Zionist colonizers."....
The demonstrators were quickly removed the auditorium by security following the disturbance, allowing the show to begin.'
As poisonous as a "Portuguese man of war," this (translated) message from Israel-haters in the country known as "England's oldest ally":
Activists protested on Wednesday (16/12) the concert of the Jerusalem
Quartet at the Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon. They opposed the
Quartet's official association with the Israeli army committing war
crimes against Palestinians.
In a video released by the
Comité de Solidariedade com a Palestina protesters are seen chanting
"boycott Israel" as the concert was taking place. At one point the
Jerusalem Quartet was forced to interrupt the performance.
The
heckling came in two waves and lasted for several minutes catching the
audience by surprise. The Jerusalem Quartet seemed undaunted and indeed
used to the protests given the frequency in which they take place at
venues where they play around the world.
Protesters
distributed leaflets explaining the reason for their action and
condemned the Gulbenkian Foundation for hosting the Quartet despite
appeals. This is the second time the Gulbenkian Foundation, an Armenian
cultural institution based in Portugal, hosts the Jerusalem Quartet.
Both times activists protested the performance.
This
year Armenians from the diaspora, from the US and Palestine, wrote to
the Foundation's management requesting the concert to be canceled.
Similar appeals were sent by Portuguese citizens. They pointed at the
Foundations history of support for Armenians in Palestine, who like
other Palestinians live under Israel's occupation and apartheid, echoing
evidence linking the Jerusalem Quartet with Israel's propaganda in
defense of war and occupation. The appeals went unheeded and the
Gulbenkian Foundation refused to address the arguments in the letters.
The
direct action by Portugal's Comité de Solidariedade com a Palestina is
in support of the Palestinian-led Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS)
movement, which advocates for a cultural boycott of Israeli cultural
institutions complicit with Israel's violations of international law....
The Israeli ambassador to the UK
said in 2008 when protesters disrupted the Quartet at the Edinburgh
Festival “we must not give in to attempts to sabotage the marketing of
Israeli art and culture….” Since the quartet has made no attempt to
dissociate itself from Israel’s apartheid policies, issuing only
half-baked statements, we can only conclude that it is happy to play
under the patronage of the State of Israel and/or its institutions while
the charges of war crimes against Israel hang thick in the air
worldwide.
In London, a bunch of usual suspects, addressed by the familiar Sandra, demonstrate at the weekend outside the venue at which the Jerusalem Quartet is playing.
At the beginning of the video we see an elderly gentleman angrily snatch the Palestinian flag just as the demonstrators are about to raise it on their flagpole.
Their subsequent screams of "From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free," that vile war cry meaning that the Jewish State must be eradicated, and thus denying Jewish rights to self-determination in the Jewish homeland, proves too much for some Jewish concert-goers, who complain to a policewoman that the phrase, with its inherent concept, is antisemitic.
The policewoman warns the little gaggle of usual suspects that the complainants could report their chanting as "a hate crime," should they care to do so.
'An Irish dance academy was forced to cancel the first ever Irish
dance competition to be held in Israel after receiving threatening
messages from an anti-Israel group. [See here]
The Carey Academy Israel was set to hold the “1st Israeli Feis” in
Tel Aviv on August 15 but called it off after a protest outside its UK
dance studio in Birmingham.
The organisers said that students, parents and teachers had received threats from boycotters.
In a statement on the event’s Facebook page, the organisers said:
“Unfortunately we have to announce the cancellation of what would have
been the 1st Israeli Feis. Age, nationality, or religious beliefs do not
matter to us. Unfortunately, there was a protest outside our dance
studio. We do not want to risk safety of anyone connected to the Carey
Academy. The feis was not meant to be anything more than what it really
is - a celebration of dancing, friendship and joy. We are sorry for any
inconvenience caused to people who may have already booked tickets but I
am sure you understand the safety of our dancers is our number one
priority.”....'
Naturally, the BDSers are dancing for joy, although their joy is tempered. See, for instance, this mad-as-a-nest-of-disturbed-hornets press release from the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign, linked to by a despicably Israel-demonising group of as-a-Jews:
http://www.ipsc.ie/press-releases/6237
And note the indignation here:
Meanwhile, from a staunch Israel-basher in the Emerald Isle, composer Raymond Deane:
For PalFest Ireland's various anti-Israel initiatives see here
The Greek crisis has all but pushed Israel out of the picture as far as many normally Israel-obsessed leftists on social media are concerned.
Meanwhile, though, American singer Gloria Gaynor, due to perform in Tel Aviv on 29 July, has received a billet-doux imploring her as a "woman of color" to cancel the gig, and Israel-haters are encouraging the like-minded to harass her on Twitter.
'We, the undersigned, the Campaign to Boycott Supporters of Israel in Lebanon (CBSI) and the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) are pleased to learn that you plan to perform in Lebanon on July 31, 2015 but are deeply dismayed that, two days earlier, you are scheduled to sing in Tel Aviv. We call on you to cancel your Tel Aviv performance, as no matter what your intentions are, Israel’s regime of oppression will use your name, as the South African apartheid regime used artists’ names, to whitewash its crimes.
We represent large segments in Lebanese and Palestinian societies that hail from different backgrounds but are united in a common struggle to end Israel’s regime of occupation, settler-colonialism and apartheid, including the occupation of parts of Lebanon. We uphold the inalienable right of the Palestinian people to self-determination, and the right of return of Palestinian refugees who were ethnically “cleansed” from their homeland in 1948....'
My previous post shows Professor William Jacobson analysing the Academic Boycott. In this video we see a mob of BDSers in London demonstrating against the forthcoming performance in Israel of the Brazilian singers Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil.
I nearly entitled this "Girls in their summer dresses" because that's what it appears to show at first, Londoners and visitors to London strolling in their warm weather finery.
But in the background a familiar group of Israel-haters are erecting their propaganda posters, and at 3:24 a familiar plummy voice begins with the usual "We are here today ..."
It's the voice of the woman who had a habit of boarding Tube trains and reciting anti-Israel "poetry" to the trapped commuters.
Please don't miss David Singer's latest article (the post before this), regarding BDS and a Harvard student who went to Israel with the intention of hating that country but instead, once there, had the scales fall from his eyes.
And don't miss Professor Denis MacEoin's marvellous indictment of student BDS and the topsy turvy outlook and breath-taking hypocrisy that surrounds it, as exemplified by the attitude of the National Union of Students in Britain.
'The world you live in us upside down: you claim to act in defense of human rights, but your motions do not reflect this. You give free passage to the worst abusers of human rights -- countries that persecute religious minorities, suppress and kill women, throw homosexuals from high roofs, execute hundreds of dissidents every year, and imprison, torture and slaughter -- without rebuke. Yet you fulminate against Israel, which does none of these things. It does not use torture; it does not execute anyone -- not even Palestinian terrorists who have committed mass murder against innocent civilians and children.
Neither the great many supporters of Israel whom I know personally nor I want anything but the best possible future for the Palestinians.
No one I know hates the Palestinians. What we do hate are the organizations that exploit and dominate the Palestinian people, that deny them the right to vote for new governments, the culture of hatred in Palestinian mosques, schools, and political speeches, and the acts of terror and war that have been directed at Jewish, Muslim and Christian Arab Israelis for many decades.
It is the hatred and the violence we deplore, knowing as we do that this hurts not only Israelis, but that, since 1948, it has been blocking Palestinians from achieving their true potential.
We believe sincerely that boycotting, sanctioning and divesting from Israel will not bring peace so long as the Palestinian leaderships in Gaza and the West Bank insist that they intend to destroy Israel and take control of its entire territory.....'
Meanwhile, in London, here's the ubiquitous Sandra at the mike.
Great to see that she and the other anti-Israel demonstrators in London on Thursday outside the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), protesting against BAFTA's decision to host the Israeli-funded Seret film
festival, encountered some backtalk from a number of, er, Zionists:
More videos of the anti-Israel protesters hereand here
Like White, British anti-Israel propagandist broadcast journalist Harry Fear seems inordinately fond of Islam and of peppering his posts with Islamic phrases:
Meanwhile, reading between the lines of his latest screed,
which reminds Dionne Warwick of the fight against Apartheid South Africa and of
Jim Crow in the American South, it would seem that the eradication of
Israel as a sovereign state is what aged rocker and veteran Israel hater Roger Waters hopes for:
'[W]e,
in the nonviolent Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement,
will win this one against the similarly racist and colonialist policies
of the Israeli government of occupation. We will continue to press
forward in favor of equal rights for all the peoples of the Holy
Land.... There is no place today in this world for another racist,
apartheid regime.
.... I remember the road to Montgomery, I remember
Selma, I remember the struggles against the Jim Crow laws here. Sadly,
we are still fighting those battles, whether here in the USA in Ferguson
or Baltimore, or in Gaza or the Negev, wherever the oppressed need us
to raise our voices unafraid. We need to stand shoulder to shoulder
with them, our brothers and sisters, until true equality and justice are
won....
... When
global pressure finally forces Israel to end its occupation, when the
apartheid wall comes down, when justice is served to Palestinian
refugees and all people there are free and equal, I will gladly join you
in concert in the Holy Land, cross all the boundaries and share our
music with all the people.'
Samuel (Sam) West is a British actor and director. Unlike John Altman (aka "Nasty" Nick Cotton, whom we see slandering Israel on my previous post but one) he specialises in polished, posh-talking parts, befitting a member of theatrical royalty (his parents are the well-known thespians Prunella ("Sybil Fawlty") Scales and Timothy West, and his paternal grandfather was the actor Lockwood West, a distant cousin of film star Margaret ("The Lady Vanishes") Lockwood.
Despite his rather privileged background, the undeniably talented Mr West (as a naval history buff I enjoyed his billing, years ago, as a supercilious young military officer on horseback in the "Hornblower" miniseries) is a far leftist.
While at Oxford University, he was, we're told, "a member of the Socialist Workers Party and later briefly the Socialist Alliance". Moreover, he "has been a left-wing activist for many years; he was a critic of Tony Blair's New Labour government. On 26 March 2011 he spoke at the TUC March for the Alternative."
As far leftists tend to be, Mr West is also a vociferous critic of the only true democracy in the Middle East. Here's footage of him some years ago rocking the anti-Israel crowd with a star turn:
Much more recently, he (and his parents) were among the stars and spear carriers who announced their intention to deprive Israel of the honour of their presence (well, words to that effect, anyway).
Now, a number of the theatre world's finest (super-finest in the Israel baiting stakes) have rounded upon the "Israel lobby" in the UK.
A couple of press release from Artists for Palestine UK,both dated 10 May, tell the story:
'(NB this original text differs slightly from the version published by the Daily Mail on May 8)
As theatre practitioners in Britain, we are alarmed that the Daily Mail is attacking the Arts Council and the British Council for supporting a UK tour by a Palestinian theatre company.
A scene from the play; photo credit Jewish Chronicle
Your piece, with its inflammatory title UK taxpayers fund ‘pro-terrorist’ play, cites “concerns” from the Board of Deputies of British Jews, an organisation with a shocking record of acting to suppress both cultural and academic events which explore the bitter reality of Palestinian existence. Only last month the University of Southampton succumbed to demonisation and threats and banned an academic conference on the legal status of Israel. [Emphasis added here and below]
Neither the Daily Mail nor the Board of Deputies has seen Freedom Theatre’s play The Siege, yet both somehow feel qualified to suggest that it is “promoting terrorism”. Not for the first time, Palestinian voices are in danger of being drowned out by a vociferous pro-Israel lobby that smears all Palestinians as terrorists and antisemites. This lobby wants us to believe that theatre-goers in the UK cannot be trusted to hear these voices and make their own judgements.
The Palestinian West Bank, where the Freedom Theatre is based, has been under illegal Israeli military occupation since 1967. We endorse the words of British playwright Howard Brenton, an honorary director of the Freedom Theatre, who writes of the forthcoming tour:
“This is real political theatre, performed out of the both terrible and inspiring experience of a struggle for freedom and justice. [The Freedom Theatre] are living proof that telling stories and entertaining audiences are powerful acts of resistance to oppression. Do go and see them, they have news for us.”
[signed] Caryl Churchill, Dominic Cooke, April De Angelis, David Edgar, Lucy Kirkwood, David Lan, Miriam Margolyes, Paul Mayersberg, Maxine Peake, Mark Rylance, Jennie Stoller, Mark Thomas, Samuel West
The other press release says in part:
'.... Leading theatre practitioners have leapt to the defence of the Palestinian Freedom Theatre, about to start its first tour of the UK, after an article in the Mail on Sunday accused supporting arts organisations of funding “a pro-terrorist play”.
The Mail on Sunday piece, written by Nick Craven, charged Arts Council England with giving £15,000 of taxpayers’ money “to producers of an unashamedly one-sided drama based on accounts from the gunmen and bombers of Hamas and the Al Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade.”
It cited “extreme concerns” from the Board of Deputies of British Jews and quoted the Israeli Foreign Ministry saying the play used testimony from “men with blood on their hands.”
Neither Craven nor the critics he quotes have seen the play – The Siege – based on dramatic events in Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity in 2002. Its tour opens in Manchester on May 13.....'
It refers to the letter quoted above, and quotes one of the signatories, Mark Thomas, thus:
“Free speech for Palestinian artists is increasingly threatened, more
often than not by supporters of Israel’s apartheid occupation.
Palestinian voices not only have a right to be heard, we have duty to
listen to them.”
And it gives the dates and ten locations of the performances of the play, which opens in Manchester and winds up in Glasgow in mid-June.
"A Land Without People charts London’s political wrangling in the lead-up to the United Nations proposal to partition Palestine into Jewish and Arab territories.
Through meticulous research of contemporary documents, it tells the story behind the overthrow of British rule in Palestine at the hands of Zionist terrorists and the violent clearing of its Arab inhabitants that was to follow."
Great, too, to see that British singer Robbie Williams has ignored the sanctimonious bullying from the execrable Roger Waters and the rest of the anti-Israel BDSer pack and landed in da Zionist Entity:
Also due in Israel, to give a concert later this week, is American R&B and soul singer Lauryn Hill:
Not so great is the ear-assaulting experience of listening to the Israel-libelling "international activists" on this video, imploring Lauryn Hill to cancel her planned concert to Tel Aviv; talk about off key!
As for polls (geddit?) apart, British anti-Israel activist RT journalist Harry Fear in this post on Facebook exemplifies the flagrantly obsessive tunnel vision of the BDS movement:
Amid all the approval from Fear's followers one of them has broken ranks to make the perfect, feather-ruffling, comment:
Pardon the "great Australian adjective", but that infamous set of mendacious maps which does yeoman service to the anti-Israel cause has now turned up on the side of public buses in Copenhagen:
To quote the Israel-libellers:
Copenhagen bus adverts call for settlement boycott
May the world's buses carry messages of justice for the Palestinians.
The campaign started yesterday in the Capital of Denmark.
If enough funds are collected through the website, the campaign will go country wide. Check the FB-page and website below.
In Danish it says:
"Our conscience is clear! We neither buy products from or invest in the settlement industry".
(Charlotte and Lizzie)
http://nejtaktilbsp.dk/
https://facebook.com/nejtaktilbsp
#nejtaktilbsp
I know of at least one pro-Israel activist who has sent a message of protest to Denmark's ambassador in his country, expressing disgust at the bus ad (especially coming as it does just two months after the murder of a Copenhagen Jew standing watch outside a Copenhagen synagogue during a bat mitzvah ceremony), directing the envoy to this post that shows the maps for the libels they are, and politely requesting that the ads be removed.
More BDS afoot, this time to dissuade American diva Dionne Warwick from performing in Israel next month:
Meanwhile, this latest article by the frank, fearless and free Israeli journalist Khaled Abu Toameh entitled "The Palestinians No One Talks About" is highly recommended.
(Oh, and so is my latest Tuesday column on Elder of Ziyon!)
Disrupted in full flood outside the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London's Southbank a few days ago, by a Sikh security guard, the thespian manqué who blares her demonisation of Israel every chance she gets, tells him arrogantly "I am talking!" and then, angrily: "The more you tell me to keep the volume down the more I'm going to shout louder"
She eventually started up again, spewing her venom against Israel and the Jerusalem Quartet, and by the end was clearly in need of a Fisherman's Friend (or three)
On hand to support her with their obnoxious chants and banners were the usual crowd of Jew-haters, including the seemingly ubiquitous plummy-voiced woman with long grey hair who some months ago tried the caper of boarding Tube trains to recite Israel-libelling "poetry" to the travelling public.
At the end two usual suspects tell proudly how they disrupted the concert, and boast that the concert hall's staff were obviously on their side.
