If The Merchant of Venice is Habima's chosen play, I would also prefer that they not appear!

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Mike Leigh anti-Israel Jewish playwrie ex-Habinim member Miriam Marguoles fat ugly lesbian Jewish left-wing actress Others no idea and don't care they can go and stick their collective ignorant heads up a dead bear's bum.

Get some education and shut your stupid mouth about things you know nothing about. What is the difference between you and the Nazis who boycotted Jewish performers? You make me sick.

I am also against Israel's control of the West Bank, but don't see anyway Israel can withdraw because of Hamas. We should stop building settlements though. However I am sick of the European Left singling out Israel. The British should also boycott all Russian acts for human rights violations in Chechnya, India for Kashmir, the whole of the Arab world', China for occupying Tibet and of course the US and UK itself, for having thousands of troops in Afghanistan and having killed far more civilians there than ever in the Israel/Palestine dispute etc etc.Then there may be some justification for boycotting Irsael too. If not and it appears not, we may conclude that the British establishment is just singling out Israel- a common for of PC discrimination these days sadly.

So if they want to take on board the intensively marketed, and currently very fashionable lies purveyed by Israel's Arab foes, its not really surprising. We should just let these nobodies who spout other peoples words for cash just get on with it.

Imagine the Hebrew theater Habima performing "The merchant of Venice" is like expecting the IPO playing Wagner!. It has to be thrilling! Wished to be there

kings and queens of hypocrisy. they should be a bit more concerned about what is happening in their own country and cities. but of course israel and its so called occupation of the the west bank of the jordan river is a much easier target, something they can all feel fuzzy and superior about. i wouldn't expect anything less from the nazi appeasing jew hating brits. how many jews did they string up while they occupied palestine? how many jews did they kill when they wouldn't allow them entry to the jewish homeland? how many did they send back to the gas chambers? they make me sick. cowardly lying hypocrites.

your sniveling response is absolutely pathetic. oh please brits look at us, we hate israel too! sickening. grow some betzim will you and tell them to take their stinking festival and shove it where the sun don't shine!

We tried that. We left Gaza. Results: Over 3000 rockets launches on our civilian populations. I don't remember Emma Thompson or any other actor or British union defending or even mentioning the rights of Israeli children in internationally recognized Israel territory who live under ongoing rocket barrage. It is Emma's and her cronies ignorance, arrogance, hypocrisy, and hatred of Jews motivating this. She may get her footnote in history as a contributor to the next holocaust.

they can demand land from the winning side. ( as did Israel ) Establishing nations comes with the winning of wars as did America, israel, and India (through passive resistance,) After Ben Gurion declared Israel a Nation by her victories over the arabs, Truman followed and so did the other officiants. The League of Nations no longer exists. The UN has become a subject of disgust and repugnancy. You should remember these older adages, "To the victor belongs the spoils.' "Possession is nine tenths of the law." If every nation followed these anti semitic guidelines, no nation now known would remain in tact. So FO, stuff it, your ignorance is overwhelmingly underwhelming and short on facts. There will never be a pal state, they are kept in cages for a reason, their 'arab brothers consider them too violent, even for them.

Or, 'off with their heads' like Alice in wonderland."

The thespians and their mentors involved in taking this action todiscriminate against Habima have literally lost the plot of the real drama going on in the Middle-East. Never before have so many arabs been seen to be sharpening their knives to cut themselves a piece of Jewish flesh. There is nothing in international law or UN Resolution 242 to cite against the Israeli construction of settlements in the disputed areas. These thespians are doing jack shit to implore the arabs to recognize Israel's right to exist. But regarding the thespians attitude towards Israel on the other hand I have to say: IS THIS A DAGGER I SEE BEFORE ME????? Israel might say....Whether 'tis nobler to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune or to take up arms and by opposing end them!! But no. We don't want to take up arms. Jews don't love killing people like Arabs do love killing Jews. No, we Jews want a lasting SETTLEMENT with them. So we are building settlements and Jewish communities in the land of Judea/Samaria and someday..... perhaps with little acts of help from the international community..... we Jews shall have a lasting peace settlement with the arabs. Israel will not pay attention to these self-righteous after-dinner speakers. They are playing with the peace and security of Israel in this policy of theirs and it endangers us. I say we throw some rotten Easter eggs at them and boooo them off their self-righteous arrogant ignorant stage.

I have nothing but contempt for these so called 'celebrities for their ignorance of Jewish history, their sheep like inclination to follow the herd and above all having the chutzpah to interfere in the internal affairs of Israel which is none of their business. Though I'm sure they're far too modest to say so publicly they no doubt regard themselves as members of the 'intelligencia' and therefore of more important than mere ordinary folk. As far as I’m concerned their views should carry no more weight than those of shopkeepers, taxi drivers or cleaners and if they happen to have no connection to Israel then they should be ignored. Carry on building in all parts of The Land of Israel and pay no attention to these self important idiots!

Malvinas Gibraltar Scotland North Ireland Etc, Could somebody boycott himself?

These liberal clowns play their parts perfectly...don't they? Who cares what these idiots' think! They are godless losers who are going to Hell!

The logic is just missing.

that the british toady up to the arabs. having lived there for over 50yrs i can confirm that they have a hatred to israel and the jews. they can go and f...k themselves, the lot of them. within 20yrs they will be occupied by those same muslims they now support.

When do we BDS England?

or admit you have no idea what you are talking about.

William Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice," Is a Jew hating story written and played by Jew haters. The liberal left in Israel thought they would be loved by the Global leftist elite by playing an Anti Semitic play on the stage for Jew Haters in a Muslim run country. Serves them right, let this be a warning to all the leftist scum who collaborate with Muslims and Liberals in other countries, they will always hate Jews no matter how treasonous you are to your own people, matter of fact, these anti semites have far more respect for Right Wing Jews who spit in their face. No honorable Jew should be playing any Shakespear. I hope the EDL takes over the UK.

The occupation is shameful and I understand the position of Israeli artists who do not perform in Ariel. As citizens they are making a non violent political statement against specific policies and are maneuvering within the israeli democratic system. Yet when foreign entities (Gentiles or Jews) boycott Israel they are damning an entire nation. The conflict is a dispute between two sides both of whom need to be more honest and forthcoming. I personally do not boycott settlers in their homes Foreign boycotts only reinforces stubbornness and self righteousness.

Just remember it goes both ways. When I go to see a movie I don't care about the actor opinion about anything. I care about their professional act. If you boycott Israel, we will boycott your movies. I will make sure to tell all my friends and family... and I hope others that read this post will join me.

Theater companies from Iran or Syria or Afghanistan or any other Muslim backwater yearning for free artistic expression. By all means invite them, if they can get out alive.

There goes another actress I won't watch anymore.

Its a pity she doesn't seem to remember the butchers of the Ma'alot School Massacre, the murder of the Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics, so many terror attacks in Israel and even in the UK and how her "poor" Arab friends sided with Hitler and his "Final Solution of the Jewish Question" which, had the Nazis won the war, would have found her family in the gas chambers!

Your suggestion to' leave the WB and live in peace with respect and dignity' would be both reckless and suicidal. As the example of gaza shows as soon as Israel withdraws from the 'west bank' arab terrorists will launch rockets into Israeli communities. Security concerns aside Israel should not withdraw from the the 'west bank' because this is in fact Judea and Samaria and historically part of the Land of Israel a fact you're no doubt ignorant of. Perhaps you can explain to the Jewish community of Hebron one of the four holiest places in Judaism which has had a Jewish community for about three thousand years apart from a brief spell following the 1929 massacre of it's Jewish inhabitants why they should be evacuated? If you support a palestinian homeland on the west bank based on the demands of fatah and all other palestinian parties for a state free of all Jews then by implication you're a supporter of a racist and apartheid state! Unlike Israel whose population has over 20% of arabs all of whom enjoy full equality under the law.

Mike Leigh is a so-called half-Jew. And since "only" his father was Jewish, he is absolutely not entitled to call himself a JEW. That's nice, then.