On 27 May (2009), Scottish composer James MacMillan CBE denounced to the Scotsman ‘the attempt to prevent Tel Aviv University graduate Tali Shalom Ezer…from travelling to Edinburgh for a screening of her film…at this year’s International Film Festival.’ This despite no-one attempting any such thing, and film director Ken Loach urging all to make the Israeli…
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Jerusalem rail operator jumps ship, Tel Aviv group isn’t even responding Haaretz, 8th June, 2009 The light rail projects for Jerusalem and Tel Aviv are both facing difficulties. In a body-blow to the future Jerusalem light rail, the French company Veolia, which was supposed to run the train system after its construction, is abandoning the…
Once you strip away the mujamalat – the courtesies exchanged between guest and host – the substance of President Obama’s speech in Cairo indicates there is likely to be little real change in US policy. It is not necessary to divine Obama’s intentions – he may be utterly sincere and I believe he is. It…
Haaretz, 3 June 2009 Settlers set fire to a Palestinian field and blocked a junction Wednesday just hours after security forces re-evacuated nearby illegal West Bank outposts. The settlers also returned to the site of the evacuated outposts, Maoz Esther and Ramat Migron, and erected two new outposts close by. Advertisement Maoz Esther, which lies…
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By Eli Ashkenazi Published by Haaretz, 5 June 2009 Residents of the Misgav bloc of communities in the Galilee consider themselves to be liberal, peace-loving people who support coexistence with their Arab neighbors and even root for Bnei Sakhnin, the soccer club based in a nearby Arab town considered a prominent symbol of that community.…
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Letter published in The Scotsman, 5 June 2009 The Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC) applauds the decision of the Edinburgh International Film Festival to return funding from the Israeli Embassy, and welcomes the intervention on this matter from British director Ken Loach (your report, 19 May). Standing up to the State of Israel is not…