The Don’t Dance with Israeli Apartheid Coalition is calling for demonstrations against Brand Israel asset, Batsheva Dance Company, when they perform across the UK. The Batsheva tour starts in Edinburgh on October 30th and ends in Plymouth on November 24th. If you will be joining in either or both of the Edinburgh protests, or you’d…
Boycott campaigners turned the empty Zionist slogan “Culture unites, Boycotts Divide” totally on its head in Edinburgh last weekend, drawing some of Scotland’s best known cultural figures, many theatre–goers and Ohad Naharin, artistic director of Israel’s world-renowned Batsheva dance company, into public dialogue about its role as a state-funded “cultural ambassador.” In an unprecedented encounter…
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by Liz Lochhead, poet, dramatist and Scottish Makar2 September 2012 …I was glad to join other Scottish artists and writers in signing a letter protesting the appearance of the Israeli Batsheva Dance Company at the Edinburgh International Festival this week. Why? Because I have been profoundly changed by what I witnessed and experienced first hand…
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IF you are angry at the Israeli court blaming Rachel Corrie for her own death under an Israeli bulldozer, while trying to intercede against a – routine – Israeli bulldozing of Palestinian homes and propertyIF you are angry at Israel shelling of Gaza yesterday and its other cruelties IF you want to send a message…
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The Zionist Federation UK will be demonstrating in support of Batsheva and Israel outside the Edinburgh Playhouse Theatre. Israeli Minister Limor Livnat will attend one of the Israeli State-sponsored dance group’s three performances for the Edinburgh International Festival (EIF) for three nights beginning Thursday August 30th. EIF Director Jonathan Mills has publicly warned pro-Palestine demonstrators…
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Naomi Wimborne-IdrissiPublished in The Scotsman22 August 2012Protests against Israel’s Batsheva Dance Company performing at the Edinburgh International Festival are attracting support from contemporary dance figures including Alain Platel, founder of the Belgian dance company Les Ballets C de la B, and UK choreographer Jonathan Burrows. Both have endorsed statements opposing the participation of Batsheva because…
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