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European magazine demands ideological purity
Merav Yudilovitch
Published: 22.03.06, 12:16
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1. A similar thing happened to me once.
Elad Lending ,   Israel   (03.22.06)
Around 1995, I wanted to buy a book from Sher Music Company, a publisher of jazz sheet music "Real Books". When the owner, Mr. Sher (himself a Jew), realized that he was selling to an Israeli, he refused, writing back vile emails (I'd be happy to share them with anybody who's interested-email me privately). In the end I mobilized Jewish musicians across the USA who emailed him incessantly, and I lodged a complaint with the Better Business Bureau of his state. In the end he sold me the book (though I never bought anything else from him). Fight these bastards; it is possible to win....
2. Do British dancers have to say they oppose the Iraq war??
Moti ,   Haifa, Israel   (03.22.06)
Of course not. More hypocrisy and anti-Semitism from the land of bigots. Screw this British dance magazine, it should be boycotted. And any Israelis who cooperate with it should be ashamed of themselves.
3. Remember
atmawi ,   Palestine   (03.22.06)
Remember Israeli Ampasador to one of the EU contries? He did destroy a peice of art for a jewish Artist, just because it talks a bout Sucide bumbers? ART and Politics are jointly attched. Unfortunately, Artists cann not turn their backs to politics. Vice-Versa, they can represent in a very admirable language the political sircmstances.
4. the inquisition all over again
Avi ,   Jerusalem, Israel   (03.22.06)
Deligitimisation of anything and everything to do with Israel continues with England's chattering classes. It has been going on for decades. These ignoramuses continue just to pick on us and leave everyone else alone. They can not fathom the fact that the Jews have stopped being a Dhimmi to the Moslems and the Christians too for that matter. It gets up their noses. They like their Jews submissive and if possible dead so that they can celebrate our wonderful culture with no actual Jews to worry them. They demand of us to confess our sins and repent in public. Forget any historical context for the Israel Arab conflict. The chattering classes have chosen their side and for them, the support of their team is blind. Don't confuse them with the facts. Historically, in Europe in general and in Spain in particular, this was the precursor to expulsion and murder. I would not expect a dancer to understand such things. Or even know what I am talking about. Has this august journal demanded of the dance groups from China to condemn the persecution of the Tibetans or the murders in Tienanmen Square? Or the Russian dance groups condemn the role of the Russian government in the bloody conflict in Chechnia? Who else but the Jews needs such as "kashrut certification certificate" from these purveyors of morality? There is an answer to this. Come and join me in Israel and show the b*****ds what we are made of. The fact that there are Israelis stupid enough to sign such things does not surprise me. After all they are dancers and artists and their grasp of reality is tenuous at best. Leave them to fester in their swamp of hatred. We have got our work cut out making Israel a better place for us, our children and our neighbours. We will not be deflected from this by a bunch of neo Anti-Semitic prancers.
5. the point is
aa ,   london   (03.22.06)
israel is an occupier and the whole world knows this , even if this magazine changes its mind and does what the jews want from all the pressure it will face from all the jews , israel should know that the world is not deaf and dumb , and we all know what is going on , and that the occupation and land theft and killing of the palestinians is not forgoten .....
6. Who care what these pansies think?
Dani ,   Tel Aviv   (03.22.06)
I don't.
7. pollack is missing a screw
elianna ,   Israel   (03.22.06)
Pollack shows that although the stereotype of pollaks is not true in most cases it is true in his case. He just misses the point for his own convinence.
8. Dance Europe
Raoul Schur ,   Israel   (03.22.06)
It has become abundantly clear that there is no connection with the concessions Israel makes. Since we have withdrawn from Gaza, the animosity only gets worse. The bottom line is that we are facing simply the ugly head of anti-Semitism, and not disagreement with our policies.
9. Thanks to Israeli (Israel-hating) leftists. This is the
Judith ,   Haifa   (03.22.06)
result of you actions. Maybe Israel should cease to exist, so that we can all disperse again (and maybe appear in British magazines). You have been trying so long to accomplish this, and who knows, you may succeed in the end. I am sure that your accomplishment will bring an end to anti-Semitism. The world will again welcome Jews back into their countries and treat them very well, and you lot will live happily ever after knowing that you accomplished a great triumph; the destruction of the one and only Jewish state and the establishment of another fictitious Arab state (because there just aren't enough, are there?). You will be sad, however, to find that no prize will await you. You will all be thrown into the nearest history dump for collaborators, because they may use you to fight Israel and even feign fondness, but no one really likes collaborators, especially those who betray their own country/people, because if one betrays one's people they cannot be trusted by anyone else. Sad how people never learn.
10. aa form London...
DR ,   Florida, USA   (03.22.06)
Isn't your country "occupying" Iraq??? A danc magazine has nothing to do with world politics. This is a ploy by one person or group to make a statement and it's inappropriate to punish these dancers for the actions of the Israeli gov't. Wha would happen if the whole world boycotted arabs for supporting terror?
11. Proof of their Anti-Semitism...
Seth ,   Washington, DC   (03.22.06)
...they don't have anything against China which invaded and annexed Tibet and moved so many Han Chinese into their new "province" that Tibetans are now the minority.
12. I said dance (as I fired my six-gun at their feet)
Yoel Ariel ,   USA   (03.22.06)
You have the wrong hobby! Forget Dance. Go shooting. I have been reading the so called "redneck oriented" Firearms specific journals & magazines, i.e. GUNS, American Handgunner, Guns & Ammo, Combat Handguns, American Rifleman, and several military oriented magazines, for over forty years, and have NEVER, I say again, NEVER have precieved even a teensy tiny itsy bitsy micro-smidgen of Anti-Jewish or Anti-Israel slant or propaganda. (Bad reviews of obviously poor products which were made in Israel do not count) Maybe the "liberal" artsy fartsy thinkers are not so liberal after all, and when scratched reveal the old anti Jewish usual suspects and the allegded closed "minded rurals" are much more decent and human than ordinarily given credit for
13. to # 5 aa
Avi ,   Jerusalem, Israel   (03.22.06)
Dearest aa You forgot to write Zionist instead of Jew. Your anti Semetism is showing and that is not polite in the sort of company that you obviously keep. Just remember, Zionism is the legitimate national liberation movement of the Jewish people. We succeeded in building a thriving country on and of our own. The opposition of the Muslim Arabs to the lowly Jews daring to rear their Dhimmied heads and take their national sovereign rights in the Jews ancient homeland goes against the very basis of Moslem Arab imperialism. How dare the Jews. My goodness, next they will be speaking their own language, producing their own literature, arts and culture. We can't have that can we? Back to the ghetto with them, into the Melach where they belong. NB please be careful, irony and sarcasm were used in this post.
14. Anti Semitism Pure and Simple
Sam Weinstein ,   USA   (03.22.06)
Based on the article Anti Semitism Pure and Simple anyone who goes by their conditions is as guilty of supporting anti semitism as the magazine is. Shame on those dancers.they should have walked away.
15. Remember #3
Linda   (03.22.06)
That if you want to put an Ad here on Ynet and they tell you that you MUST write that you are agaist selfbombers, would you do that even when you agree? I would not, because you PAY money for your Ad and it's not there's do deside who is wrong and who is right. That is for politics and not for artist! And if they would asked also Pals to do it and other people it would be something else, now it is only aginst Israeli's, and that is racism!
16. To aa London: Practice what you preach.
MARK ,   USA   (03.22.06)
the United Kingdom is the brutal occupier of Northern Ireland. The United Kingdom killed many in Belfast. The U.K. NEEDS to leave Northern Ireland now!!! Every country that they occupy they destroy. The U.K. is responsible for this conflict in the Mideast. The UK NEEDS to FIX it.
17. How sweet!
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18. TO #5 This is what the UK does
MARK ,   USA   (03.22.06)
They occupy land without permission and often leave it in a terrible mess when they move on. The UK has a nerve to call Israel an occupier. They are occupying Northern Ireland. They are hypocrites. You left Israel and the Jews had to build everything. The British do not have that ability. They destroy land. You destroyed our land.
19. #5 London aa Help bring peace to the region
MARK ,   USA   (03.22.06)
You need to help the situation and not blame people. The U.K. occupies Iraq and tortures Iraqi citizens. That is a reflection of your culture. This is 2006 not the Middle Ages. Stop torturing people like you did during the Middle Ages. The UK excelled at torture.
20. Response to #5
Patriot ,   Redmond, Oregon USA   (03.22.06)
So Israel stole the land that they have lived in before there were very many arabs in this "disputed" land? The arabs have attacked Israel how many times in war? Three or four and Israel defended themselves and won this "disputed" land fair and square as the spoils of war. Israel was defending herself from ugly arab attacks with the one goal of trying to annilate Israel once and for all. Is that what you really want? Look in your own backyard to Northern Ireland and to your past of the mighty British empire that was brutal and imperialistic at best. The pullout from Gaza was a terrible mistake that has turned Gaza into a hell hole of islamofacist vomit. Remember it is not the Israelis who are strapping bombs on and killing innocent people. Yes, there have been accidental deaths caused by the IDF but those took place when trying to hunt down and kill the islamofacists who attack Israel. When was the last time you read about a Jew blowing himself up in an arab market? You should look around as islam is swallowing up your own country right before your eyes!
21. Dance Europe
Helen Eleasari ,   Tel Aviv, Israel   (03.22.06)
The point is that entirely too much attention is being paid to Dance Europe. Ignorance is excusable because it's curable. Stupidity, as amply demonstrated by the magazine's policy makers, is not because it is ineradicable. And those who kowtow to their benighted arrogance are equally stupid.
22. The British need to do a lot of apologizing
Steven Wilson ,   Anchorage, Alaska   (03.22.06)
for all the conquering and occupying that they did before the Dance Troupe has to apologize. The British dance editor would of spent several days apologizing just for expelling Jews from Britain, and all the other British exploits. Is this a case of do as I say, not as I have done--and done---and done----and done-----and done............ What a bunch of hypocritical babble. Fortunately not all British share this ignoranemous's opinion.
23. Proven media bias
Steve ,   USA   (03.23.06)
B"H So here you have it: the magazine is forcing is media bias. Is it that major advertisers insist on this as a precondition? What is the source of this influence peddling? Does Europe recognize the State of Israel? If so, why is this treasonous nonrecognition mandatory for advertisers? Is this not an issue of free market access? Is there free trade when access to advertisement is limited by a country and its policies?
24. you cannot stop them but you can expose them
rose ,   israel   (03.23.06)
Even if used incorrectly, magazines and such are allowed to publish what they want; but this magazine should definitely be exposed as publicly and as loudly as possible. One famous person said,"You cannot always win against a bad person, but you can embarrass the hell out of him. This article is the first step.
25. F--K THE EURO-TRASH HELLHOLE
DEBRA ,   USA   (03.23.06)
IT'S FULL OF ANTI-SEMITIC LOSERS.
26. spineless dancing by Pinto & Pollack
(03.23.06)
The next article in this section http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3230118,00.html is a sucking up to these two idiots who do not have the spine to tell the UK anti semites to stuff their magazine. There is nothing wrong with opposing the occupation of the West Bank, but the problem which these people do not understand is that they are contributing to delegitinising just the Jewish national liberation movement when only the Jews are singled out. What place does one sided fasionable political propaganda have in a lousy dance magazine? They could have said yes, we too oppose the occupation of the West Bank and we will put our names to an article saying that after the magazine requires that of the Chinese in Tibet, the English in Northern Island, the Russians in Chechnia etc. etc.
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