{"id":3698,"date":"2012-03-31T23:17:13","date_gmt":"2012-03-31T22:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/?p=3698"},"modified":"2012-03-31T23:17:13","modified_gmt":"2012-03-31T22:17:13","slug":"left-wing-luvvies-gang-up-on-israeli-artists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/03\/31\/left-wing-luvvies-gang-up-on-israeli-artists\/","title":{"rendered":"Left-wing luvvies gang up on Israeli artists"},"content":{"rendered":"
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H\/T Barry Shaw<\/p>\n

I don’t read the Guardian. I used to when it was a decent newspaper.<\/p>\n

However…<\/p>\n

when I was alerted to this letter<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2012\/mar\/29\/dismay-globe-invitation-israeli-theatre?newsfeed=true<\/p>\n

(no, \u00a0I am not going to give them the benefit of a link even from my modest website – on principal)<\/p>\n

I was outraged at the list of people, who claim to be artists, that are objecting to the appearance of Israeli theatre group Habima at the Globe.<\/p>\n

The reason is that this company has performed at and co-operated with ‘halls of culture’ in Israeli ‘settlements’.<\/p>\n

Here are these morally outraged Thespian signatories so YOU know who to boycott in the future:<\/p>\n

David Aukin producer
\nPoppy Burton-Morgan artistic director, Metta Theatre
\nLeo Butler playwright
\nNiall Buggy actor
\nDavid Calder actor
\nJonathan Chadwick director
\nCaryl Churchill playwright
\nMichael Darlow writer, director
\nJohn Graham Davies actor, writer
\nTrevor Griffiths playwright
\nAnnie Firbank actor
\nPaul Freeman actor
\nMatyelok Gibbs actor
\nTony Graham director
\nJanet Henfrey actor
\nJames Ivens artistic director, Flood Theatre
\nAndrew Jarvis actor, director, teacher
\nNeville Jason actor
\nUrsula Jones actor
\nProfessor Adah Kay academic, playwright
\nMike Leigh film-maker, dramatist
\nSonja Linden playwright, iceandfire theatre
\nRoger Lloyd Pack actor
\nCherie Lunghi actor
\nMiriam Margolyes actor
\nKika Markham actor
\nJonathan Miller director, author and broadcaster
\nFrances Rifkin director
\nMark Rylance actor
\nAlexei Sayle comedian, writer
\nFarhana Sheikh writer
\nEmma Thompson actor, screenwriter
\nAndy de la Tour actor, director
\nHarriet Walter actor
\nHilary Westlake director
\nRichard Wilson actor, director
\nSusan Wooldridge actor, writer<\/p>\n

I’m sure, like me, you have admired many of these names for years.<\/p>\n

I would hazard a guess that very few of them know the history of the conflict and have accepted the narrative of ‘Occupation’ and ‘colonialism’.<\/p>\n

How many of them have ever protested about anything else?<\/p>\n

How many of them know that although settlements are illegal under certain interpretations of international law there is no ‘Occupation’ in any legal sense and there has never been any legal ruling that Israel is an occupier. \u00a0And before you knee-jerk, just check. Here’s a useful link<\/a> for the sceptics<\/p>\n

Maybe American actors should be boycotted and made pariahs because of Guantanamo or Iraq?<\/p>\n

It’s only ever Israel and the ‘Occupation’ which gets these people frothing at the mouth and hearts bleeding.<\/p>\n

But, you see, this is the Left’s favourite cause. The Lord forfend that they should be tainted by association with Israeli actors who have committed the terrible crime of setting foot in a ‘settlement’.<\/p>\n

“The villainy you teach me, I will execute, and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction.”<\/p>\n

As individuals they are entitled not to go to see Habima.<\/p>\n

As indivduals we are entitled to never watch any film, play or documentary any of these people appear in.<\/p>\n

Keep the list handy.<\/p>\n

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H\/T Barry Shaw I don’t read the Guardian. I used to when it was a decent newspaper. However… when I was alerted to this letter http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2012\/mar\/29\/dismay-globe-invitation-israeli-theatre?newsfeed=true (no, \u00a0I am not going to give them the benefit of a link even from my modest website – on principal) I was outraged at the list of people, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,223],"tags":[459,22,1029,1028,4,679,201],"class_list":["post-3698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anti-zionism-doesnot-equal-anti-semitism","category-israel-palestine","tag-bds","tag-boycott","tag-guardian","tag-habima","tag-israel","tag-occupation","tag-palestine","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3698"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3709,"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3698\/revisions\/3709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}