What on earth does a dance troupe have to do with politics? Especially in this instance? Also, it was not legitimate as it was disrupting a show in a private venue. No one wanted the protesters there besides the protesters themselves. If any of those people were on the fence before, they're sure as shoot going to be sympathetic to Israel now.

What with being Scottish and all....

Actually, it seems like this little stunt - like the previous interruption of an artistic event in the UK - turned the audience against the BDS movement. People don't really like being roped into things they don't care/worry about; especially when they're trying to enjoy themselves.

Each culture show the others their values and wealth, habits, customs and moral. Let the palestiniam show the world their "anima".

I think your illegitimate.

A typical Jew hating comment from LONDONSTAN / EURABIA

Israel was established in 1948 by the United Nations, it had nothing to do with Jews reclaiming their ancestral lands. It was more to do with finding somewhere to placee Holocaust Survivors who were being refused permission to return to their homes. Nothing to do with god or anyone else. It was a political decision taken by the Big 4, to solve a political problem.

I intend to, I have asked the Hurndall family to join the next protest along with the Corrie's We in tend to isolate Israel internationally as the South African Apartheid regime were.

..your boyfriend gregg

Thanks to Batsheva for having the courage to come and face down these spiteful and misguided people. The rest of us in Scotland appreciate it and hope you enjoy every other aspect of your stay in our country..

You are not British and you don't understand what it means to be British. The only pressure growing is the pressure against your sick, oppressive ideology which has devastated your home country necessitating your move here and which we will not tolerate in our country.

I had the misfortune to see some anti Israeli protestors. The majority were on benefits, do not work, and are society misfits. There is no way any protests by such people are effective. They are counter productive as British people do not consider it acceptable to upset innocents, especially women and children.

I assume, therefore, you'll also be banning all Chinese people from interacting with all other peoples on the planet, because of the Chinese occupation of Tibet? And of course there's also the ongoing issues over the Falklands (UK), Gibraltar (UK), Cyprus (Turkey), parts of Azerbaijan (Armenia), Western Sahara (Morocco), Abkhazia and Southern Ossetia (Russia), etc. ....After all, you wouldn't want to be accused of singling out Israel alone, would you, as to do that would just be plain antisemitic. Perhaps it might just be easier to keep track of these things if you simply prevented everyone on earth from 'associating normally' with anyone from any other country, just to be on the safe side, eh? Oh, there's just one other small complication to this: In order for a country to be occupied, first of all it has to actually be a country - and Palestine was never a country.

Why do I think of George Galloway when I read your post?

Mike,you are clueless,Israelites are expanding businesses and education to the rest of the world,but idiots like you are to blind to see it.and #13 please change your name "evenbiggergun"cause my gun is called a "putz"and it's useful while you are useless.

Agree wholeheartedly. They are an inspiration to Israel and the world and an example of grace under pressure. Blessings on them.

No one cares who you bring. These people are misguided idiots with nothing to do but protest a dance performance. Maybe you should get off your biggerbottom and teach the Palestinians to support themselves instead of hiding behind apartheid/occupation cliches. Those darn Israelis. You try to isolate them and they take it as a challenge and become even more successful.

in the land of the Jews ?.

still do not get it What a bunch of morons!

"Palestinians" sure know how to win friends. Preventing people from enjoyoing a fine art, non-political event shows a lack of civility. What a beacon Palestinian society is to the world. Israel is a cultural oasis in the Arab desert

Thank you Batsheva, it was a wonderful show. I have not come across this BDS nonsense before, but having now been subjected to it, I now know what morons these BDS people are. You are welcome to perform in Scotland anytime.I'm not Jewish and love you.

Reading an article like this make me want to launch a personal counter boycott and purchase and patronize Israeli products and attend performances by Israeli artists.

The same scotland that freed a mass-murderer in return for a few barrels of oil! Identifies the moral reality that is scotland!! But then, the murdered were mostly Jews, so why would the Scots ever care?

This phenomenon of pro-Palestinian protestors attempting to disrupt Israeli cultural events is an example of protesting, and protesters, gone awry. Much like the Occupy protests from early 2012, because these movements lost sight of their goals and moved too quickly without keeping track of their affairs, they faded off the map, that is, until another major event can spurn them to rise from the ashes. I recently heard, in a lecture, an Arab story about the horse and the donkey. Both lived in a barn together. The horse was trained for racing, so he got the nicest foods and did very little work. Meanwhile, the donkey woke up early every morning and got back to the barn late at night, ate old grains, and toiled every day in the fields. He thought to himself, “How can I get treated more like the horse?” He spent weeks and weeks studying the horse: how he ran, how he ate and drank, how he groomed his hair, even how he slept. But no matter what he did, no matter how closely he imitated the horse, he still had to get up early, work hard, and eat bad food. He eventually gave up on his plans to become like the horse, but because he had become so invested in this plan, he had forgotten how to truly be a donkey. He forgot how to work hard, how to properly keep his hair, and when to eat for when he works. He had lost his identity. I feel that when these pro-Palestinian protestors take the time to protest Israeli ballets, rather than focus on the fallout of the rapidly crumbling Fatah government in the West Bank or the rapid denial of civil right that Hamas is enforcing on citizens of the Gaza Strip, that these human rights advocates have lost sight of what’s important. The characters Baqiah and Wala’a in Emil Habibi’s The Pessoptimist represent, in the eyes of Ahmad Sa’di through his article defining Al-Naqbah as the characteristic of the Palestinian identity, as the elements of sticking to the homeland and remaining loyal to her and her people. How does protesting an Israeli ballet production in Scotland prove loyalty to Palestine? Better yet, how does it serve to better the interest of her people? It seems to me to be, like the Occupy movement, one that has gone awry.

Another threat against the Jewish people worldwide enshrouded in a thin guise of "Anti-Israeli" critique. In retrospect to the mass murder last year in Toulouse, it is also a vehemently disgusting comment by the proud "British" Mike-Abu Reed. This is of course an old strategy of escalation. Agitation and hate speech will then follow.

I assume you are referring to the tragic death of Corrie. The middle class leftist that was sent to the frontier as cannon fodder and sacrifice for Hamas, PLO etc.? They surely know how to appreciate some good old agitprop :"white US woman bulldozed to death by Zionist regime" They just happened to forget to tell the Corrie family AND Corrie that the house she was squatting in / shielding was actually known as a weapons storage facility and terrorist den. I guess you would tell your "comrades" to try and prevent heavily armed FBI agents from storming drug nests in California as well? You would encourage activist friends and relatives to go to Russia and try and stop the Spetsnaz from storming houses in Chechnya? I guess you would encourage civilians to expose themselves to that kind of danger, right huh? You are not a hypocrite now are you Ivor?