Cultural protest
Meanwhile, an Israeli state representative is invited to attend Batsheva’s performance.
It seems that culture is political only when used to justify an occupying, colonising and apartheid segregating regime, not when challenging it. It is a tragedy when art is desecrated, but the desecration has already occurred when artists legitimate a policy of ethnic cleansing which denies human dignity.
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Hide AdThose in charge of the EIF should, therefore, respect the boycott called for by Palestinian artists and cancel the invitation to these Israeli cultural ambassadors unless Batsheva turn against their paymasters and challenge Israel’s apartheid regime.
Eurig Scandrett
North Berwick