{"id":1729,"date":"2006-12-25T11:43:37","date_gmt":"2006-12-25T15:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=1729"},"modified":"2006-12-25T11:43:37","modified_gmt":"2006-12-25T15:43:37","slug":"corrie-canceled-in-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=1729","title":{"rendered":"‘Corrie’ canceled in Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"

Play has potential to offend Jewish community
\nRichard Ouzounian, Variety<\/em>, 22 December 2006<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

It’s curtains for “My Name Is Rachel Corrie” in Canada.<\/p>\n

CanStage, the country’s largest not-for-profit theater, has changed its opinion and decided not to present the show as part of its 2007-2008 season.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

Jack Rose, from the CanStage board — while admitting he has neither read nor seen the script — said that “my view was it would provoke a negative reaction in the Jewish community.”<\/p>\n

And philanthropist Bluma Appel, after whom CanStage’s flagship theater is named, concurred. “I told them I would react very badly to a play that was offensive to Jews.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Language and the crimes we permit in Gaza
\nScott Kennedy, Live from Palestine<\/em>, 20 December 2006<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

When looking at the ruins of al Nasr Mosque, several Palestinians whose homes had been bulldozed beseeched me to tell others “in America” what had happened to them. They demonstrated the widespread and seemingly irrepressible faith among Palestinians that if Americans only knew what was going on in Gaza, then surely we would stop sending the weapons that Israel uses to control and attack the civilian Palestinian population.<\/p>\n

I didn’t have the heart — or the courage — to explain that most Americans simply don’t care to know what is done with our money or what is made possible by our nation’s diplomatic and economic support. Or, if they do know, they don’t care enough to do anything about what is going on in places like Gaza. Many otherwise thoughtful people in the United States, people with a demonstrated commitment to human rights and social justice, defend whatever actions Israel may take, regardless of international law and despite devastating consequences for a defenseless civilian population such as the Palestinians in Gaza. Glib slogans are offered in defense of actions that they would not support or want to pay for anywhere else. This degree of indifference is constructed through a concerted effort to prevent the U.S. public from really knowing what is going on.<\/p>\n

Whatever the case, the United States sends $10 million a day to Israel. Our support and tolerance of what goes on there flows essentially unchallenged through Congress and unnoticed by the public.<\/p>\n

Kurt Tucholsky says a country “should be judged … by what it tolerates.” If that be true, in light of what I saw happening in Gaza, the United States and all of us who live, vote or pay taxes here, have a lot to answer for.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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