Canadian Jew-haters assemble in Toronto, hoping no one will notice their detestable and hypocritical character flaws. ht/ DailyAlert, via Toronto Star:
“Tel Aviv is built on destroyed Palestinian villages” observes an ad hoc committee of artists and filmmakers heaping scorn on the Toronto International Film Festival for daring to program a Tel Aviv segment, as Israel’s biggest city marks its 100th anniversary. While the UN awarded Tel Aviv to Israel more than six decades ago, the subtext is that Tel Aviv is akin to an illegal Jewish settlement.
Anti-Israel diatribes are becoming a bore: Complaints against the Royal Ontario Museum for showing Israel’s biblical Dead Sea Scrolls; “Israel Apartheid Week” for high-minded student activists; public employee union locals calling for a boycott of Israeli academics; and the latest Pride parade featuring a float that attacked gay-friendly Israel for apartheid policies (ignoring other Middle Eastern regimes that persecute gays).
What a strange plot twist: Canadian filmmakers who pay lip service to free expression trying to bring the curtains down on Israeli filmmakers whose art is tainted by their Tel Aviv origins. But why not castigate city hall for twinning Toronto with Chongqing, given China’s human rights abuses? Or demand that Toronto sever its “friendship” links with Volgograd because of Russia’s political sins? Tel Aviv, it seems, makes for a more tempting target.
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September 10th, 2009 at 12:14 pm
It is John Greyson who is politicizing TIFF and abusing it for his own political ends.
I wonder if John Greyson’s big public hissy fit about TIFF has anything to do with him being on the Advisory Board of the Toronto Palestinian Film Festival and always pushing for a world-wide boycott of anything even remotely related to Israel?
Knowing what TIFF’s plans were, one wonders why he waited to the last moment to withdraw, rather than just in the beginning many months ago withdrawing?
As for Naomi Klein, her husband couldn’t find any jobs in journalism after being dumped by the CBC. Then he was hired by Al Jeezera and she upped her antiIsrael rhetoric. She works very hard to keep her husbands job for him!