and you will see the realborders of Eretz Yisrael, not medinat Yisrael. Grow up, there are bigger ideals out there than yours.

Good luck to the peaceful activists for the boycott. Shame on the politicians for their anti-democratic threats against them. No. they have no shame.

She makes offers which cannot be refused.

have made almost a complete circle moving anticlockwise and stopping anywhere between a dimension somewhere behind numbers 2-6. Their illiberalism, lack of tolerance and elitism has forgotten they their views are just views and not necessarily correct in each and every way.

If the boycotting activists want the public to subsidize them with tax dollars then they must act like the public employees they are. Just like the "hired-for -lifers" at publicly funded colleges, if they don't do what the "boss" says, they should be fired. Not un-democratic at all. Shame on you Bill UK, stop feeding at the public trough and then complining about the people who feed you!

Boycoting Jews.... nice "artistic" politic. Go Perform for Ariel PEOPLE, and express your opinion, invite all to your performance instead of boycoting.

can do without gov funding. unemploiment line is growing.

Bravo for your brave front you put to the world. As a confimation put your show on where the drive-by shooting occured almost a week ago. Maybe there will be a repetition .... who knows?

I speak only for myself... and I am behind you One hundred percent. Kol Hakavod

Roses are red, violets are blue, treasonous poets and artists are you!

from the gov, when any boss on earth got policy and the employees go against it, they usually r sent home, the gov simply said you can boycotte at your own expense. so next time before opening the un democratice card, think on the logic if you got any.

that it doesn't matter if they r right or wrong, I think the biggest error of those artists and lecturers is the split they r causing in the Israeli society, the damage has been done by their own hands, this in my oppinion is worse than the issue that delt here, usually artists and people of spirit should use as uniting entity, but this people meddle in politics, they should have known that by taking political stand they will be use as propeganda like in every totalitarian regime. I think the big damage has been done to everyone. now people will prefer privat education and self funded showes. the damage isn't just for themselves but for the institute the should represent. very sad indeed.

Livnat woman is no better. Boycott is the right and if some artist chooses to boycott people, then people would be wise to boycott said artist in response. If government pays to these artists so they could "create art" and not go hungry while doing it then all grants must be revoked immediately, but nobody has right to tell them what to "create". I hope Israel is not Soviet Union.

Disfuncional kibbutzniks dancing in their underwear in the guise of art and dance pose no threat to the nations phyiscal and mental health in fact better to keep them in the publics eye to know where they are.The Habima Dalal Bathsheva crowds hayday is over only no one has told them certainly not the media.I think ticket sales are now limited only to those who live in Penthouses in Ramat Aviv

are doing. The government has EVERY RIGHT to call them to task and stop subsiding them. Theirs is a shameful conduct. They believe that because they have achieved some sort of fame in Israel they can run the country....well, too bad but it isn't so and people should make their voices heard loud and clear...do not patronize these morons!

The 1948 borders have been declared by Abba Eban (No less leftist than you are) as the Auschwitz lines. As all other borders are not recognized by your darling Palestinians, what you are boycotting is the hutspah the actual Israeli gouvernment has in not accepting the to confine us ,and you you of course, inside the Auschwitz lines.

Minister Limor Livnat stop cuddling these lousy acters. STOP ALL FUNDS AND ANY PERKS TO THESE TRAITEROUS SWINE, Do it to-day !!!They can come crawling for bread.

to art, gov don't have to pay someone who doesn't work for her, unless you want your gov to talk control of your free market and turn you to socialist country and not democratice, wow Americans can't even tell the difference.

the line.

Everyone knows that a government artist loses his creativity. This is a wonderful opportunity. These artists will stop getting a government subsidy and instead will start giving private shows for people who really want to see them. The third-rate actors will be unemployed, the good actors will get paid more than ever before. By getting rid of the subsidies, this boycott will be the best thing ever for Israeli culture.

Boycotts, especially ones concerning academia or science, is simply unacceptable and does nothing other than punish ordinary people! and to boycott your own citizens is treacherous and seditious!

... and i have very little admiration for the woman normally. but let's face it: mi samcha?! artists have nothign at stake when they take advantage of their market value to propagate - it's cheap.

...I mean politicians interfering in art. That'll be right. I can just see it now....Hamlet, with the lead role played by Bibi; Romeo and Juliet with Tsipi Livni and Leiberman as the star crossed lovers; Shimon Peres taking to the stage to sing Elvis Costello's greatest hits. Ovadia Youseuf doing post-modernist nudes.... This is the stuff of comedy - oh sorry, I forgot, politicians do that unwittingly anyway!

Let me start by stating I find the boycott ridicilous. But it is also unbelievable the the woman who threw the Israeli educational systems back to the middle ages, who damaged our school system for years to come and who inability to lead ruined a generation of students, has an opinion and is allowed to voice it. Reckless drivers lose their drivers license. LIvnat still has a license to overrun, mismanage and shoot her mouth off.

That Limor Livnat's crude display of cognitive dissonance of threatening to censor the content of art and then asking aloud if we're living in a totalitarian country doesn't get out to the world media. There is no amount of hasbara to explain the idiocy of this person and her total anti-democratic credentials. An artist can disagree and boycott and lose their funding. That's fine. But point blank telling them where they can perform or else is exactly what Stalin's minister of culture did. We're becoming more and more like our neighbors as the years pass by.

While I don't agree with your views on this so called boycott, you are absolutely right about the minister. When she talked about this letter being an act that divides this society she was taking for granted that it is unanimous about the occupation. That is a travesty of the truth as the occupation is a travesty all on its own, corroding us from within. But worse still is her upending of reality. Who is functioning as a totalitarian if not she? Who is promoting a silencing of dissent if not she? We are steps away from our democracy being completely subsumed by those who believe in a one-party one system state with these reactions, which pander to base nationalistic and chauvenistic tendencies. If people are not able to freely express their opinions but face instead an Israeli McCarthyite reaction, this is not a democracy, and we are in deep trouble - as indeed we are. We the people have to stand up and take our country back from those who would take into a corner of blind nationalism, demanding obedience to a single 'clean' ideology and denouncing anyone who criticises it.