Posted on 06/08/2015 3:11:18 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
A group of 40 British filmmakers and artists have sent an open letter to The Guardian on Monday calling for the Curzon and Odeon cinema chains to stop screenings of an Israeli film festival opening in London this week.
Seret 2015, the London Israeli Film and Television Festival, will open Thursday with a gala screening at Bafta, followed by a number of screenings at the aforementioned theaters in the days to follow.
Denying the boycott is about refusing to show films by individual filmmakers, the letter stresses cinemas should cancel the screenings because the Israeli state is “promoting this festival and supporting it financially."
“By hosting it, these cinemas are ignoring the 2004 call by Palestinian civil society for sanctions against Israel until Israel abides by international law and ends its illegal displacement of Palestinians, discrimination against them, and occupation of their land.”
“By benefiting from money from the Israeli state," the letter continues, "the cinemas become silent accomplice to the violence inflicted on the Palestinian people. Such collaboration and cooperation is unacceptable. It normalizes, even if unintentionally, the Israeli government’s violent, systematic and illegal oppression of the Palestinians.”
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Salah Shabati, starring Chaim Topol, airport scene deleted https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DL4aU8duqFA&list=PL6A7AEC315509F1B4
Usphizin, produced by Chassidic Jew. Wife is really his wife. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgiCDDGdnv4
It’s fascinating how the islamonazis are “outing” themselves — you can be sure He’s taking good notes on each and every one of them. ( and, that He’s not alone...)
British anti-Semitism on the march!
With German credits and dubbing, airport scene in, fail fix.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4x2LlL8wjZQ&list=PLE014D6090C505ADB
Original Hebrew but sans airport scene.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DL4aU8duqFA&list=PL6A7AEC315509F1B4
Don’t blame 62m people for 40 luvvies.
Support the Girlcott. GIB (Girlcott, Investment, Bonuses).
It’s international leftist wankery on the march, really. Nothing especially British about it, per se. We have the same idiots in Israel and America.
Sounds like a definite improvement. Mossad needs to transgenderize some of the islamonazis maybe?
I did not know that 40 British filmmakers and artists were anti-semetic! Are there any that are not?
Has Britain been that influenced by Islam and Arab money that they now openly proclaim hatred toward Israel?
If CP Scott was still editing the Guardian, this letter would have been thrown straight in the bin. He’d be so pissed off at what his old paper was printing against Israel the whole time, I’m suprised that the energy experts haven’t hooked up his corpse to a generator to provide millions of megawatts of renewable energy from all the spinning he’s doing in his grave.
Most film buffs vaguely know who Mike Leigh and Ken Loach are.
The other 37 are nonentities.
I'm sure Harold Pinter would have signed it, but he's busy taking tea with Himmler.
Aww I love Mike Leigh’s films.
Iranians are already using him for a centrifuge.
Why don’t these “artists” first boycott Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Dubai (and the whole UAE), Kuwait, Qatar, Indonesia, Malaysia etc?
More simple leftwing dislike of Israel.
What? And lose all that SAudi, Dubai, UAE, Kuwaiti and Qatari oil money for boycotting Israel?
Support the girlcott. It pays less, but saves more.
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