Monday, October 12, 2009
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
Ben-Dror Yemini: When an artist boycotts Israel....comes to Israel to accept an award - 'David Reeve is a well known artist who protests from time to time against the separation fence in Bilin, and signs petitions against Israel. In the beginning of 2009 Reeve signed a petition that claimed Israel was committing war crimes and which called for sanctions against Israel. The second petition Reeve signed claimed that Tel Aviv was built on the wreckage of Palestinian villages after the Palestinians were exiled in large numbers, and that identifying with Tel Aviv was akin to identifying with white Johannesburg in the era of apartheid. And now, this same artist, him of all people, will soon receive, in a festive ceremony, the Dizengoff Award, which is the most important award of the Tel Aviv municipality in the field of art and painting...' [Common sense in the face of self-immolation.]
