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ARTISTS TRY TO BAN ISRAELIS
Powerlie ^ | 28 Feb 2024 | John Hinderaker

Posted on 02/28/2024 4:51:40 PM PST by Rummyfan

The Venice Biennale is one of the world’s biggest art shows. The show has a national focus:

Held since 1895 and considered the world’s top art event, the Venice Biennale, which starts in April, gives nations the chance to show off their best artists at national pavilions.

That is the hook for pro-mass muder artists to try to boot Israel out:

A petition to kick Israel out of the Venice Biennale art show because of the war in Gaza signed by more than 16,000 artists, curators and academics has been angrily dismissed as “shameful” by Italy’s arts minister.

More to come from the culture minister, a Giorgia Meloni appointee.

Signed by art world luminaries including Jesse Darling, the British Turner prize winner, the petition claims: “The Biennale is platforming a genocidal apartheid state. No death in Venice. No business as usual.”

“Platforming” is a sinister term that generally means failing to discriminate against. Culture Minister Gennaro Sangiuliano pushed back....

(Excerpt) Read more at powerlineblog.com ...


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Shameful....
1 posted on 02/28/2024 4:51:40 PM PST by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan

If I was Italian I’d be a lot more concerned with Meloni importing a bunch of low IQ Africans than worrying about a handful of Jewish painters.


2 posted on 02/28/2024 4:55:51 PM PST by EEGator
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To: Rummyfan

What about red Chinese?


3 posted on 02/28/2024 6:39:45 PM PST by Ge0ffrey
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