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2024-10-31 International-UN-NGOs
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In letter, over 1,000 reject attempts ‘to boycott, scapegoat Jewish and Israeli authors’
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[IsraelTimes] After cultural boycott call, literary and entertainment figures back those who ‘don’t share one-sided narrative’ about Oct. 7, slam ‘censorship based on identity or litmus tests’
A group of over 1,000 figures from the literary and entertainment industries have signed a letter rejecting attempts "to boycott, harass and scapegoat Jewish and Israeli authors and literary institutions."
Their letter came after some 1,000 authors and literary professionals signed a pledge to boycott Israeli cultural institutions. The signatories pledged not to work with Israeli publishers, festivals, literary agencies and publications that are "complicit in violating Paleostinian rights," including "whitewashing and justifying Israel’s occupation, apartheid, or genocide."
The signatories rejecting the boycott pledge included Bernard Henri-Lévy, Lee Child, Herta Muller, Howard Jacobson, Yossi Klein Halevi, Elfriede Jelinek, Mayim Bialik, Debra Messing, Julianna Margulies, Haim Saban and many more.
They declared that they "continue to be shocked and disappointed to see members of the literary community harass and ostracize their colleagues because they don’t share a one-sided narrative in response to the greatest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust."
"Regardless of one’s views on the current conflict, boycotts of creatives and creative institutions simply create more divisive
...politicians call things divisive when when the other side sez something they don't like. Their own statements are never divisive, they're principled ...
ness and foment further hatred," they said.
"Israel is fighting existential wars against Hamas
 ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
and Hezbollah, both US, UK, and European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
designated terrorist groups. The exclusion of anyone who doesn’t unilaterally condemn Israel is an inversion of morality and an obfuscation of reality.
"We call on our friends and colleagues worldwide to join us in expressing their support for Israeli and Jewish publishers, authors, and all book festivals, publishers, and literary agencies that refuse to capitulate to censorship based on identity or litmus tests."
The letter also said that "history is full of examples of self-righteous sects, movements and cults who have used short-lived moments of power to enforce their vision of purity, to persecute, exclude, boycott and intimidate those with whom they disagreed, who made lists of people with ’bad’ views, who burned ’sinful’ books (and sometimes ’sinful’ people)."
Ouch. That slices deep. "The instincts and motivations behind cultural boycotts, in practice and throughout history, are directly in opposition to the liberal values most writers hold sacred."
The boycott call endorsed by Rooney
…Irish writer Sally Rooney, who regularly indulges her hobby of urging the literary world to join her anti-Israel boycott, an urge that long predates the current excitements… and others follows numerous other campaigns around the globe urging individuals and institutions to cut ties with Israel amid the ongoing war in the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response ...
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