No racism no zionism

My work explores the sinster and tragic consequences of 1917, 1948 on destiny of a people.

We will not go away. We will counter every deliberate and systematic act of erasure and destruction, with multiple acts of re-construction, re-narration and re-creations.

J’ai publier cette nouvelle sur mon blogue et j’appui la lutte du peuple Palestinien…et soutien la campagne internationale BDS

Après les artistes, il faudrait peut-être aussi faire faire une déclaration semblable aux intellectuels québécois. Pour accroitre l’impact de la campagne internationale de boycott.

I Love that ,keep it up.

The boycott of Israel must be made into a precise programme to distinguish it from a boycott of Jewish people per se. There must also be a distinction made between a boycott of Israel rather than Israelis. Furthermore the Arabic word Yehudi should not be used to refer to Israel or Zionists since it is the name of the entire Jewish People who are in our majority not affiliated to Israel.

Le peuple Palestinien a le droit d’avoir une patrie.Il a assez souffert.J’appuie sa demande….La situation dans laquelle il se trouve doit avoir une fin.

Excellent travail Tadamon! Salutations solidaires aux artistes! Les jours d’impunité pour Israël sont comptés. Rien ne pourra arrêter la campagne internationale de boycott d’Israël. L’apartheid israélien se retrouvera au même endroit que l’apartheid sud-africain: au musée! Ce n’est qu’une question de (relativement peu) de temps avant qu’une masse critique de gens ne soit atteinte. Défenseurs d’Israël: quittez ce navire qui prend l’eau avant qu’il ne soit trop tard! Chantez avec le peuple palestinien le slogan anti-Apartheid d’Afrique du Sud: Amandla!

Congratulations to all the artists who signed and Tadamon for pulling this together! Viva Palestina!

WE WILL NOT GO DOWN….

Peace and love to Palestine.

ONE day the wall will fall on the head of the Israeli coverment.

From a T.O Artist/Teacher: Thank you Montreal artists for this awesome declaration against Israeli Aparthied…there are thousands of other Canadian artists ready to sign this declaration if it goes national. In peace~davis

Vanessa Redgrave says referring to Israel as an apartheid regime is counterproductive to peace and to justice for the Palestinian people.

“If attitudes are hardened on both sides, if those who are fighting within their own communities for peace are insulted, where then is the hope? The point finally is not to grandstand but to inch toward a two-state solution and a world in which both nations can exist, perhaps not lovingly, but at least in peace,” said Redgrave in an October 2009 letter to the New York Review of Books.

Honte à Gilles Vigneault et Richard Desjardins. Ces 2 individus savent sans doute créer de la fiction poétique mais ils peinent, manifestement, à voir les choses telles qu’elles sont, particulièrement quand elles se déroulent au-delà du bout de leur nez.

Et les 500 autres artistes ? Ils font figure d’ »idiots utiles » (l’expression vient de Lénine) aux yeux des islamistes et des terroristes au pouvoir à Gaza: par leur signature, ces artistes se croient utiles à la cause palestinienne alors qu’ils ne réussissent qu’ à faire la promotion de la cause islamiste et terroriste.

La semaine contre l’apartheid (sic) israélien est un dérapage odieux qui mérite l’opposition et la condamnation de tous ceux qui ont une tête sur les épaules, connaissent le sens des mots, ou, simplement, ne sont pas incultes. Tous ceux, en sommes, qui ne sont pas les esclaves superficiels de leurs émotions, défaut sérieux que je ne serais pas surpris de trouver chez la plupart des artistes signataires.

Rappelons aux 500 signataires, que Gaza a une frontière avec l’Egypte : Gaza ne peut être une « prison » (sic) que si l’Egypte bloque, aussi, sa frontière avec Gaza. Si apartheid il y a, il est donc à la fois israélien et égyptien. Quand y aura-t-il « semaine contre l’apartheid israélien et égyptien », ou jointe condamnation de l’Egypte et Israel ? Rép. : aux calendes grecques. Car le but de ces organisateurs est : ventiler une haine atavique et la ventiler unilatéralement, de manière qui attire peu de conséquences personnelles. En clair : dans la direction du seul pays juif de la planète plutôt que dans la direction (oh ennuyante, oh plus complexe, puisqu’il y a 60 autres pays musulmans) d’un pays juif et d’un pays musulman !

(Notons au passage que l’Egypte a entièrement raison de lutter avec Israël contre le terrorisme islamiste.)

Québécois déçus par la pusillanimité de ces artistes dépourvus de discernement, réconfortez-vous: les autres signataires me semblent de purs inconnus. Parmi les plus grands artistes québécois, des douzaines et des douzaines (l’immense majorité) n’ont pas signé cette pétition incendiaire qui ne peut avoir qu’une conséquence prévisible: envenimer les choses là-bas en encourageant les Palestiniens à persévérer dans une direction extrémiste fermée aux compromis ; extrémisme qui dure depuis 60 ans sans jamais leur donner rien d’autre que plus de misère et de dépendance auto-infligée. Il y a du tragique à un peuple dont le motto officieux est, selon Abba Eban : « ne jamais rater une occasion de rater une occasion ». Si au moins les signatairs pointaient le peuple palestinien dans la bonne direction. Mais non : tout comme le fou regarde fixement le doigt du sage qui pointe vers la lune, ces artistes regardent fixement le doigt israélien au lieu de la solution si évidente ; refus du terrorisme, acceptation de compromis.

Si une majorité palestinienne avait été le moindrement ouverte à des compromis (une minorité palestinienne y a toujours été ouverte), il y aurait paix depuis belle lurette au Proche-Orient.

Un mot pour les journalistes québécois ou francophones. Pensez-vous vraiment que ces artistes connaissent quoi que ce soit à la situation là-bas? Non. Mais ils ont sans doute lu vos comptes-rendus, et vos comptes-rendus étaient, pour la plupart, sérieusement biaisés dans une direction pro-palestinienne ou négative envers Israël ; ils n’avaient rien d’une apparence de neutralité.

Avant de ridiculiser la crédulité et la naiveté de ces artistes dominés par leurs émotions beaucoup plus que par la raison et la connaissance, pointons donc du doigt les nombreux journalistes québécois qui les ont systématiquement désinformés sur ce sujet, et ce, depuis 40 ans. Quelques journalistes les ont informés avec compétence et objectivité (Lysiane Gagnon, par exemple), mais ils sont fort minoritaires. Les autres ont systématiquement utilisé un vocabulaire très peu neutre qui était souvent dénigrant envers Israel: un vocabulaire qui correspondait, le plus souvent, à la manière palestinienne de voir les choses, et qui correspondait très rarement à la manière israélienne de voir les choses.

Bravo aux signataires, et 500 fois merci !

Le boycott anti-israélien touche des gens de tous les bords politiques, de toutes les origines ethniques (juifs, druzes, bédouins, circassiens, arabes musulmans et chrétiens). Si le blocus était raciste, la Cisjordanie serait bloquée. 500 artistes adoptent le réflexe nauséeux du boycott d’un pays pour favoriser l’organisation terroriste du Hamas qui avec le Hezbollah sert de supplétifs au régime islamo-fasciste iranien qui opprime son propre peuple et pend ses opposants. Vous oubliez les blessés du Fatah achevés dans les hopitaux par les tueurs du Hamas au moment de la prise de la bande de Gaza, le kidnapping d’un soldat israélien Guilad Shalit sur le sol d’Israël, les bombardements des écoles de Sderot depuis 8 ans, etc.
Merci de m’indiquer où je peux renvoyer mes CD de musique québecoise (j’ai notamment une bonne douzaine de CD de Gilles Vigneault). Quant à mes vacances au Canada, je m’engage à ne pas sortir des quartiers anglophones de Montréal pour m’assurer que l’argent que je dépense ne sert pas à éditer “le protocole des Sages de Sion” ou à payer la corde des pendaisons ordonnées par Ahmadinejedad. Quand je voudrai voir des baleines j’irai à Vancouver et j’oublierai définitivement Tadoussac et le vieil antisémitisme québecois du type “allez sois généreux, ne fais pas le juif”. Et puis la vraie culture française est à Paris, chez vous elle dégénère dans la haine.
Chez nous en France (la vraie France), le boycott anti-israélien ou anti-juif est condamné par les tribunaux de la République.

Vive la République. Vive la France.

Jonathan Pearson

with all the respect for the Palestinian struggle for interdependency and for art, the real responsible for the cinema closure in the Gaza strip is Hamas and not Israel. 9 operating cinemas in Gaza strip were closed after a violent demonstration of Hamas in 1995 and never reopened again, even after the Israeli withdrawal. in your post and and on your website, you don’t even mention that in the Gaza strip there is a radical Islamic regime that doesn’t allow artistic manifestations (like in Afghanistan during the taliban). except for a martyr movies as “Imad Akal” (if you consider it art…). it’s ok to blame Israel for many things but i think you should also self-criticize what is happening inside the Palestinian society. i know that my comment doesn’t support your cause 100% and might not publish it, but sometime the reality is more complex then Israel – bad, Palastinians – good.

Are you also against Palestinian murderous terror? Against their religious zealousness? Their lack of tolerance towards Christian Arab minority? Their gender based discrimination? their historical lies?

Do you support, like them, the total destruction of the state of Israel? their constant bombardment of Israeli cities?

Israel is no saint, but nor are the Palestinians. Your ignorance does not bring peace, but make it more difficult to achieve it.

funny cause in gaza there is no culture at all !!
israel dont control of gaza the hamas is !
the islam is very democracy….go back to read and learn fools.

I think it’s a wonderful thing that all you people sign and support a pettition without really knowing the facts… I think I will start a pettition of my own – “A call from worldwide artists to support the international campaign for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions against Canadian apartheid of the martians….”
About as logical and true as yours.
I can’t believe how ignorant people can be. Stop feeding off of the one-sided media reports! if either one of you spent only a couple of weeks in israel, you would have understand that there is no apartheid, nor anything that even resambles it. It’s funny how you people support those who don’t care for human rights, women rights, gay rights, or even free speech, and go against the only country in the middle-east that does! We have arab members of the parlament, and the arab people in israel have more rights than every other arab in any other muslim country! I guess it’s easier to put your name down on a stupid pettition then actually trying to understand and know the situation…

there is Culture in Afghanistan ,Sudan the same here in gaza !!
why are you publish so much lies ? what do you know about the palastinian history at all ?
in israel there is 20 % of arab muslim Citizens !!!
israel is the only Democratic country in the middel east !!!
what do you know about the claims of the Palestinian ?
do you heard the name jordan kingdom and Saudi Arabia and how they established ?
Excuse me you dont know s….. you part of Islamic Radical Campaign !!!
i wonder why we dont hear your voices over other Injustices all over the world …
if only one of you will learn the real facts open books and try the find the truth ill be glad/ mean while you supporting terrorist groups not nation or tribe.

your all so one sided about things you dont really know.it’s amazing
keep watching the paliwood show…. have a nice day
i’m here and you wont change that.
adam from israel

Apartheid Week – Hypocrisy at its Best

By: JONATHAN DAHOAH HALEVI
Published: March 2nd 2010

“…The Canadian artists blame Israel for intentionally harassing and bringing disaster to the peaceful Palestinian people during more than 60 years and fail to mention the word “terrorism” even once.

Their account of the historical events as they appear in the statement is to say the least distorted. One paragraph within the long list of “crimes” accuses Israel of deliberately oppressing the Palestinian cultural activity as follows:

“During the first and second intifadas, Israel invaded, ransacked, and even closed down cinemas, theatres and cultural centers in the occupied territories. These deliberate attempts to stifle the Palestinian cultural voice have failed and will continue to fail.” [1]

The five hundred Canadian artists virtually portray Israel as a pinnacle of human evil and their basic premise assumes, as it may be understood, that without Israeli “crimes,” the pluralist and liberal Palestinian culture in the Gaza Strip would be flourishing with cinemas, theatres and cultural centres.

This thesis has one little weakness. Not a single cinema house exists in the Gaza Strip and Hamas – NOT Israel – is responsible for “stifling the Palestinian cultural voice”. Saud Abu Ramadan, a Palestinian reporter working for the Chinese newswire Xinhua, published an article on July 26, 2009 reviewing the history of cinemas in the Gaza Strip while interviewing 57-year old Adnan Abu Beid, who used to run the most famous and biggest movie house in downtown Gaza city called al-Nasser, and today makes his living as a greengrocer. [2]

Abu Ramadan notes that “after Israel signed Oslo accords with the Palestinians, when the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) was established after the Israeli army withdrew from Gaza city, al-Nasser movie house was reopened for a few months, but later it was burned and destroyed by angry Islamic Hamas demonstrators in 1995.” Abu Beid told Xinhua that after al-Nasser movie house was burned and destroyed, “I hid my film archives and decided to become a vegetable vendor.” He added that his archives “are the only that remained after all the movie houses had either shut down, or been destroyed by Hamas activists during demonstrations in Gaza city in 1995.”

By 1994, after the PNA was established, there were nine movie houses in the Gaza Strip, including al-Nasser, al-Samer, al-Jalaa’ and Amer in Gaza City, al-Khadra and al-Hamra in the city of Khan Younis and three other movie houses in the town of Rafah. However, Abu Beid said, “Nowadays, there is ignorance of movie houses and the contribution they could make in developing our culture.” He went on, saying that “many people who think about reopening movie houses in Gaza are afraid that it would be attacked, burned and destroyed.”

Xinhua’s reporter mentioned in this regard that ”radical Islamic groups have carried out in the last several months a series of attacks against internet cafes, coffee shops and other entertainment sites in the Gaza Strip, claiming that these places are used to spread immoral principles among the young Palestinian generations.” He quoted the response of Osama el-Eassawi, the minister of culture for the Hamas government in Gaza, who conditioned the reopening of any of the closed Gaza movie houses upon respecting the laws and the traditions of the Islamic society by saying the following: “We support the art that respects the moral and religious traditions and cultures.”

The first and yet only movie produced by the Hamas government was Imad Aqel which was screened at the Islamic University of Gaza, in the absence of cinemas in the Gaza Strip. The movie tells the heroic story of the senior terrorist of Hamas, who established its military wing, and is held accountable for the killing of 13 Israeli soldiers and civilians. The film cost $120,000 and was written by Mahmoud al-Zahar, a senior leader of Hamas. Reuters’ reporter, Nidal al-Mughrabi, describes the reaction of Palestinian spectators who came in masses to watch the first movie ever to be screened under Hamas Islamic rule. “The audience in the Gaza Strip clapped and cheered as the actor delivered the movie’s most memorable line: “To kill Israeli soldiers is to worship God.” Majed Jendeya, the movie’s German-trained director, was quoted as saying that he hopes to screen the film at the Cannes festival in France. [3]

In conclusion, it is tremendously hard to comprehend how a huge group of Canadian artists are speaking with big words on human rights and at the same are silent on Hamas oppression of any free cultural activity, and even worse on its pursuance of nurturing a culture of death. I desperately want to believe that the Canadian artists were not familiar with the facts before signing the distorted statement.

in all the critiques towards the Artists Against Israeli Apartheid letter there has failed to be a concrete challenge to the facts outlined in the letter, as outlined below…

“Palestinian citizens face an entrenched system of racial discrimination and segregation, resembling the defeated apartheid system in South Africa. A matrix of Israeli-only roads, electrified fences, and over 500 military checkpoints and roadblocks erase freedom of movement for Palestinians. Israel’s apartheid wall, which was condemned by the International Court of Justice in 2004, cuts through Palestinian lands, further annexing Palestinian territory and surrounding Palestinian communities with electrified barbed wire fences and a concrete barrier soaring eight meters high.

Gaza remains under siege. Israel continues to impose collective punishment on the 1.5 million Palestinians of Gaza, who still face chronic shortages of electricity, fuel, food and basic necessities as the campaign of military violence executed by the apartheid state of Israel endures. UN officials recently observed that the “situation has deteriorated into a full-fledged emergency because of the cut-off of vital supplies for Palestinians.” As a result of Israeli actions, Gaza has become a giant prison.”

concerning the reality of Israeli apartheid in Palestine, there is an excellent article written by the South African anti-apartheid campaigner Desmond Tutu, linked below…

* Apartheid in the Holy Land
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2002/apr/29/comment

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Honte à Karen Young, Jean-Guy Moreau, Shafik de Loco Locass, Yann Perreau, Armand Vaillancourt, Mado Lamothe, François Avard, Samian, Paul Ahmarani, et Lhasa de Sela.

Honte à ces artistes qui, comme Gilles Vigneault et Richard Desjardins, semblent animés par la haine puisqu’ils ont signé un texte incendiaire, calomniateur, ignoble, crapuleux et trompeur qui nous ramène presqu’au temps odieux de l’infâme résolution « sionisme = racisme » d’il y a 35 ans (résolution depuis longemps répudiée par tous les pays de la Terre sauf des pays musulmans et 3 pays communistes (1)).

Honte à tous ces artistes qui ne peuvent que penser à boycotter des produits israéliens, au lieu d’aider vraiment et directement les Palestiniens: faire le mal leur vient donc à l’esprit avant de faire le bien; faire du négatif leur vient à l’esprit avant de faire du positif.

En effet, combien de bourses d’études pour enfant palestinien en leur nom? Combien d’ailes d’écoles ou d’hôpital en Judée-Samarie en leur nom? Combien d’arbres plantés en leur nom? Combien de sculptures, de peintures données aux Palestiniens en leur nom ? All hat no horse! All talk no action! Ils déshonorent le Québec vaillant par leur geste non constructif.

Bravo à Jacques Brassard qui, dans son blogue (2), a écrit 7 paragraphes bien sentis à ces artistes, paragraphes qui auront au moins clarifié une chose : la haine les anime, à moins que ce ne soit une ignorance crasse du sujet sur lequel ils s’expriment.

Ces artistes devraient comprendre le pouvoir des mots. Mais ils s’en sont servi pour se lancer dans une invective qui contient des assauts radicaux contre les faits et la vérité : une telle somme de pusillanimité n’est pas acceptable, et doit être dénoncée.


 (1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_General_Assembly_Resolution_46/

(2) http://blogjacquesbrassard.blogspot.com/

Certains commentaires ici font sourire, certains arguments font pitié et une certains violence incite à penser que les artistes ont, comme il se doit, su toucher une corde sensible et montrer la voie de la conscience.

N’oubliez pas que ce sont bien les 4 frontières de Gaza, y compris la mer et la frontière égyptienne, qui sont gérées par israel, comme le rappelle Marianne Blume dans cet entretien:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=706UnWD0yvM

L’argument qui revient sans cesse est “pourquoi s’en prendre à israel et pas aux autres pays où il existe aussi des injustices?”.

Puisqu’il faut encore le répéter, rappelons que les mouvements de solidarité avec la Palestine dans le monde entier, et Tadamon à Montréal ne fait pas exception, sont constitués de citoyens de conscience qui sont, bien entendu, concernés par d’autres souffrances de par le monde. Au même titre que nombre des artistes signataires de la lettre contre l’apartheid israélien, Tadamon est signataire d’une quantité d’appels qui condamnent l’injustice et l’oppression partout où elles se trouvent. Nous nous battons pour la justice en Egypte comme au Canada, en France comme en Afghanistan, en Irak comme en Tchétchénie… alors pourquoi pas en Palestine?!

I will repeat this for the anglophones: international solidarity with the Palestinians, and Tadamon is no exception, is carried out by people who are, of course, concerned by other causes throughout the world. Like many of the artists who signed the letter against israeli apartheid, Tadamon endorses many appeals that condemn injustice and oppression, wherever they stand. We fight for justice in Egypt and in Canada, in France and in Afghanistan, in Irak and in Tchetchnia… so why not Palestine?!

Dr. Michael Laughrea,
Les gens sont tannés. Tannés de 40+ d’occupation, de promesses brisées, de mensonges, de guerres et on cherche une solution. On a TOUT essayé mais l’Israel continue de construire des colonies et des murs et REFUSE d’établir un état pour les palestiniens qui est juste et équitable. Il y A déjà des bourses, des arbres plantés et des programmes sociaux dans les territoires occupés mais à quoi ça sert si l’Israel d’un coup de main déracine les arbres, emprisonnes les gens sans proces et tue 1400 personnes. Est-ce que une bourse de recherche garantie des droits fondamentaux? La paix? la justice? ce que vous suggèrez est beau sur papier mais n’a AUCUNE application dans la réalité sur le terrain. Proposez plutôt la création d’un état! Ou des droits justes et équitables! Ces artistes savent que ceux qui peuvent faire des changements dans ce conflit sont ceux avec le pouvoir, avec la 4ieme plus grosse armee de la terre et ils veulent leur faire savoir que si vous voulez des relations normales avec l’occident: comportez vous avec des valeurs avec lesquels on est d’accord.

Though certainly contentious and far from unequivocal, one must by necessity have the courage to assume a moral position as regards the state of Israel’s (in collusion with the United State’s with the tacit support of the Canadian’s) treatment of the Palestinian people. Many of the comments posted on Tadamon explicate contingencies and nuances and though thoughtful and well-intentioned they nonetheless fail to respond to the irrefutable fact that the treatment of the Palestinians in the West Bank and particularly in Gaza is morally offensive and in terms of international law illegal.

Stating this does not in any way make other acts in other regions whether they are committed by so-called terrorists or by other governments less odious. All too often one hears, as a few of those who have commented have stated, that the reality on the ground in the Middle-East is so complex that no one can claim to fully understand let alone pass judgment. Within a certain context that is certainly true. What after all do a bunch of artists residing in Montreal know about all the idiosyncrasies of Middle-East politics? I suspect some know more than others. But, however valid that may be, it is besides the point; the point being that what we do know and not only have a right but an obligation to state openly and unequivocally is that the government of Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians is morally offensive and must stop.

It is with the deepest respect and admiration for the Jewish people that I feel compelled to name the government of Israel’s policy toward the Palestinians as a moral wrong. I know a considerable number of Israeli’s together with an increasing number of the international community of Jews both Zionist and non-Zionist would agree with this and are working hard to have their voice be heard. It is therefore equally odious to witness our own government’s attempt to stifle any debate in it’s McCathyesque effort to equate criticism of Israeli state policy with anti-Semitism. This is a frightening and again morally reprehensible precedent against which many more than 500 voices should and must be raised.

It is therefore with these considerations in mind (and many more besides for which the space here prohibits me from listing) that I willingly add my voice to the list of those who support doing whatever is necessary in a peaceful manner to coerce the state of Israel, together with those governments who support them, to raise themselves to a higher standard, to understand that an apartheid like solution will never be a solution only an unending misery for all concerned.

Dwight Smith, writer

what a bunch of garbage signed by ignorant artists who obviously have no time to read anything but a senseless petition. If the people of gaza wanted anything resembling a productive life, they would not have destroyed everything israel left for them when they exited gaza,they would not let themselves be used as pawns by the arab world, and would have moved forward on their own with all the help in the world. Instead, they throw cement blocks, use their own people to blow themselves up (i hope they find the 70 virgins) and concentrate on revenge for the physical wars THEY start. After receiving years of rocks and bombs, what is Israel to do to defend itself? I will divest myself of any so-called art of these petitioners-most of whose names are unknown to me.

Thank you Dwight.

Wow ! The hasbarists or megaphone people are in full attack mode. They are so laughable and easy to detect….. Get a life !!

Bravo à tous ces artistes! Cependant, il faudrait que ces derniers en parlent davantage sur la place public. Tous ensemble pour soulager la misère de ces malheureux Palestiniens!

Oui, nous appuyons cet engagement des artistes canadiens à faire prendre conscience aux peuples de l’est de la Méditerranée qu’ils doivent se respecter mutuellement et vivre en paix, en arrêtant de se mettre les bâtons dans les roues de leurs développements respectifs !

Je suis fiere d’ajouter ma voix a celles de nos artistes . Israel est un etat voyou qui ne respecte pas les resolutions de l’ONU , qui pratique l’Apartheid envers ces propres citoyens non juifs et qui menace la paix dans le monde.
Ceux et celles qui supportent le regime sioniste font partis d’un club select HASBARA , ils surfent 24heure sur 24 et sont payes par le gouvernemt pour desinformer, amalgamer et essayer de justifi

Greetings.
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It occurs to me that the world does not know who are the Palestinians.
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It goes like this:
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The Canaanite civilization was comprised of dozens of city state like communities. Not unlike ancient Ireland or Scotland.
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Enter into Canaan, the Jews with the beginnings of monothesim, from Eastern Arabia; likely, what is now called Iraq. Fleeing from what the Jews described as famine, they entered Egypt. The Egyptians welcomed them at first, yet if what Mark Twain declared, (paraphrase) Let us quote Genesis chapter 47, We’ve all heard of the years of plenty, and the years of famine in Egypt, and with that, Joesph and the Hebrews decided to make a corner in the markets. So, during the years of plenty, Joesph and the Hebrews bought up all the land to the last acre, all the livestock to the last hoof…all the wheat to the last bussel…This, contended Twain, was why the Egyptians enslaved the Jews.
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Well, somehow, some of them escaped, not a million, it’s ridiculous, and found their way back to Canaan, monotheism shawdowing them. Monotheism began to be embraced by the Canaanites. A Canaanite peasantry revolt occurred, was successful, and the birth of Israel began.
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Decades more than a thousand years later, while under the Roman ” occupation” (they didn’t like it), the Jews revolted and Jerusalem suffered the consequences. Not all of the Jews were killed or fled, however. Tens of thousands remained. Many had or were converting to Christianity, many weren’t.
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Circa 170 CE: Roman Emporer Hadrian (Hadrian’s Wall – UK) renamed the region Palestine. Eventually many of the Jews, who were Christians as well, came to know themselves as Palestinians.
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Circa 650 CE: Islam swept across the region and conversions ensued.
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Circa 1948 CE: Zionism conquers Palestine. So, who are the Palestinians; who are the Zionists?
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Circa, decades after the year one: Some Jews flee, some remain. The Jews that flee incorporate European, Russian and other DNA into their identity. The Jews that remain, largely come to know themselves as Palestinians.
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Many of the Zionists are the decendants of the Jews, with additional, non indiginous DNA, who are descended from the original Canaanites. Their ancestors left, and they returned.
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The Palestinians are largely the direct descendants of the original Jews, who were descended from the original Canaanites.
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The Palestinians ancestors never left. Two, three, four thousand years of the same, indiginous people. The Canaanites became the Jews who became the Palestinians.
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The Palestinians are the direct descendants of the original, indiginous people.

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Encore une fois nos artistes les plus engagés n’ont pas peur de se mouiller pour une cause. Félicitations. Juifs, Palestiniens et tout autres assoiffés de justice pourront trouvés une solution. Il faut cesser de voir le Moyen-Orient comme une pièce de théâtre au dénouement fatal. Il faut agir.

This is pure propaganda. What an astounding lack of fact and truth! It’s just shocking and sad.

Justement : La France est classé 44 e pour la liberté de la presse : c’est tout dire.

Le Québec n’est pas la France.

En outre, le boycott a été utilsé dans diverses situations, y compris contre l’Afrique du Sud, dont Israël, sans surprise, a été allié solide et durable.

De ce fait, Israël mérite 2 fois le boycott.

Et aussi parce qu’Israël est le seul pays à s’être assis sur 500 résolutions de l’ONU, seul cadre de référence admis par la communauté internationale pour la négociation, ce qui signifie qu’Israel méprise totalement et la France, et le Québec et tous les pays, hormis les États-Unis.

Apartheid Week – Hypocrisy at its Best

By: JONATHAN DAHOAH HALEVI
Published: March 2nd 2010

“…The Canadian artists blame Israel for intentionally harassing and bringing disaster to the peaceful Palestinian people during more than 60 years and fail to mention the word “terrorism” even once.

Their account of the historical events as they appear in the statement is to say the least distorted. One paragraph within the long list of “crimes” accuses Israel of deliberately oppressing the Palestinian cultural activity as follows:

“During the first and second intifadas, Israel invaded, ransacked, and even closed down cinemas, theatres and cultural centers in the occupied territories. These deliberate attempts to stifle the Palestinian cultural voice have failed and will continue to fail.” [1]

The five hundred Canadian artists virtually portray Israel as a pinnacle of human evil and their basic premise assumes, as it may be understood, that without Israeli “crimes,” the pluralist and liberal Palestinian culture in the Gaza Strip would be flourishing with cinemas, theatres and cultural centres.

This thesis has one little weakness. Not a single cinema house exists in the Gaza Strip and Hamas – NOT Israel – is responsible for “stifling the Palestinian cultural voice”. Saud Abu Ramadan, a Palestinian reporter working for the Chinese newswire Xinhua, published an article on July 26, 2009 reviewing the history of cinemas in the Gaza Strip while interviewing 57-year old Adnan Abu Beid, who used to run the most famous and biggest movie house in downtown Gaza city called al-Nasser, and today makes his living as a greengrocer. [2]

Abu Ramadan notes that “after Israel signed Oslo accords with the Palestinians, when the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) was established after the Israeli army withdrew from Gaza city, al-Nasser movie house was reopened for a few months, but later it was burned and destroyed by angry Islamic Hamas demonstrators in 1995.” Abu Beid told Xinhua that after al-Nasser movie house was burned and destroyed, “I hid my film archives and decided to become a vegetable vendor.” He added that his archives “are the only that remained after all the movie houses had either shut down, or been destroyed by Hamas activists during demonstrations in Gaza city in 1995.”

By 1994, after the PNA was established, there were nine movie houses in the Gaza Strip, including al-Nasser, al-Samer, al-Jalaa’ and Amer in Gaza City, al-Khadra and al-Hamra in the city of Khan Younis and three other movie houses in the town of Rafah. However, Abu Beid said, “Nowadays, there is ignorance of movie houses and the contribution they could make in developing our culture.” He went on, saying that “many people who think about reopening movie houses in Gaza are afraid that it would be attacked, burned and destroyed.”

Xinhua’s reporter mentioned in this regard that ”radical Islamic groups have carried out in the last several months a series of attacks against internet cafes, coffee shops and other entertainment sites in the Gaza Strip, claiming that these places are used to spread immoral principles among the young Palestinian generations.” He quoted the response of Osama el-Eassawi, the minister of culture for the Hamas government in Gaza, who conditioned the reopening of any of the closed Gaza movie houses upon respecting the laws and the traditions of the Islamic society by saying the following: “We support the art that respects the moral and religious traditions and cultures.”

The first and yet only movie produced by the Hamas government was Imad Aqel which was screened at the Islamic University of Gaza, in the absence of cinemas in the Gaza Strip. The movie tells the heroic story of the senior terrorist of Hamas, who established its military wing, and is held accountable for the killing of 13 Israeli soldiers and civilians. The film cost $120,000 and was written by Mahmoud al-Zahar, a senior leader of Hamas. Reuters’ reporter, Nidal al-Mughrabi, describes the reaction of Palestinian spectators who came in masses to watch the first movie ever to be screened under Hamas Islamic rule. “The audience in the Gaza Strip clapped and cheered as the actor delivered the movie’s most memorable line: “To kill Israeli soldiers is to worship God.” Majed Jendeya, the movie’s German-trained director, was quoted as saying that he hopes to screen the film at the Cannes festival in France. [3]

In conclusion, it is tremendously hard to comprehend how a huge group of Canadian artists are speaking with big words on human rights and at the same are silent on Hamas oppression of any free cultural activity, and even worse on its pursuance of nurturing a culture of death. I desperately want to believe that the Canadian artists were not familiar with the facts before signing the distorted statement.

Is there any “artist” out there that is known outside of his(her) district?

Bonjour,
J’ai de la peine, parce que je vois qu’on cherche à promouvoir la haine entre les deux peuples alors que sur le terrain des ONG luttent pour permettre de se rencontrer, de voir comment vivre ensemble, réparer des injustices, etc. Regardez le travail aussi accompli à l’exemple de Wahat-al-Salam, la ferme collective où ensemble Arabes et Juifs travaillent cette terre que tous nous aimons. Regardez les acteurs palestiniens et israéliens qui tournent ensemble des films où l’on n’évite pas les réalités mais où on cherche des solutions. Boycott ? Alors tu mets aussi au chômage technique le petit producteur d’huile palestinien, tu boycottes du même coup tout le monde ? Et je perçois des relents nauséeux d’antisémitisme comme je ne suis pas du tout certain que ces “amis de la cause palestinienne” soit si ouverts au monde arabo-musulman, voyez la maltraitance contre les immigrés, au Québec autant qu’ailleurs, pas de leçon à donner. Tu veux la terre pour les Arabes ? Ok, mais tu traites comment l’Arabe dans tes rues ? Deux poids deux mesures. Et le Juif, tu ne l’as jamais accepté, et quand c’est un Juif de pays arabe, alors c’est la totale. Ne dis pas que je mens car j’en ai été témoin. Ici, comme en France et ailleurs, on n’aime pas plus les Juifs que les Arabes, c’est un fait. Alors qu’au moins on n’ait pas l’hypocrisie de se la jouer solidaires. Et s’il reste un tant soit peu de bon sens, au lieu de jaser apartheid et des mots/des maux qu’on ne connait pas, faisons plutôt bon accueil à nos frères arabes musulmans ou chrétiens, à nos frères juifs et à tous les autres, respectons les autochtones et travaillons pour la paix, la rencontre et le partage. Assez de paroles de haine déjà pour que nous en rajoutions !
Et si on se le demande, je suis bouddhiste mais je pourrais tout aussi bien être musulman, juif ou chrétien tant qu’on pratique la compassion/charité. Et je serais honoré d’appartenir à ces cultures qui ont donné le meilleur à l’humanité, loin de vos navrantes mesquineries actuelles.

NO ONE IS FREE WHEN OTHERS ARE OPPRESSED