If the boycotters believed in their own art they would be happy to perform in Judea and Samaria in order to bring us their light and truth and help us out of our darkness and ignorance. Their refusal to perform shows that they have no confidence in themselves or in their art.

Did you finally get rid of your halitosis. Then it's alright.

No one CAN SHUT your BIG Mouth Ms. Livnat ! any way It's OK to try :))

If you want to speak out against certain government policies that is your right. But when you carry it to the level of a boycott you engage in the "collective punishment" you seem to rail against. We call that hypocrisy of the highest order. You punish all including the children for your misguided ideas. Frankly your all rather disgusting. If they do get government money for their work it should be cut off, call it a government boycott of their art. How does it taste? Since you want to be selective in where you perform, let the government be selective of who they fund. Try and make a living without the government money, it's called the free market. If people like your stuff, you'll be fine, if the people are repulsed by your stuff you'll be broke. See ya, big mouths.

Nitzan Horowitz should be worried. In the next elections there is every liklihood that Meretz will disappear from the Knesset. The fact that the social left is an endangered species in Israel should be of great concern to at least one group of people: the social leftists. Sadly, they seem destined to continue to dig their own graves. Rather than fight for the causes of the social left, their world has degenerated to fighting against a single cause: "the settlements". Can Meretz and Labor save themselves? I fear not. They have abandoned the goal of social justice and entrenched themselves under the false banner of "the peace camp", thinking that only they are the ones who want peace. There are no signs that they will be able to reconstruct themselves. And that, sadly, is bad for all of us.

Limor, its not your mouth thats the problem, its your brain.

...willing to listening to you. Respectfully Madam Minister, if you listened from time to time then you would not have to resort to such loud, bombastic difficult to translate comments in order to defend yourself!

I have. She actually does indeed listen to the regular folk who talk (not scream epithets) to her.

Right, just like we have been trying f to shut your mouthfor ages & you aint even trying !!

good to see someone standing firm against Traitors! nothing more damaging to a Nation that Traitors..Maybe these artists should live in Gaza.this would be the best option to offer them to leave this great Land..they use freedom against those who gave them the freedom in the first place..surely they are communists?They freedom it seems?

I expect every person to be able to express their opinions - Horowitz. Quite right. But they shouldn't expect to recieve funding from the State, if they attack it. Even so called "artists" who are generally not very smart should understand the "not biting the hand that feeds you", adage. http://redbourn.notlong.com

"hardline approach against artists' boycott". Why should RADICAL ATHEIST LEFTIST artists get my hard earned money? If they want to be RADICAL ATHEIST LEFTISTS and express their opinions they should pay for it by themselves! RADICAL ATHEIST LEFTIST MK Nitzan Horowitz wants the majority of citizens who disagree with the RADICAL ATHEIST LEFTISTS opinions to continue paying!

I will say this you...Minister Livnat represents a political point of view that I did not vote for. From your location "Judean People's Front" I can say that you and I sit at two very different points of view nonetheless I greatly appreciate your comment as it provides me with a different view from the one I hear on the radio, see on the television and read in the various national newspapers (Ha'Aretz, Yediot, Maariv, Israel HaYom). I thank you for taking the time to share this important information about Minister Livnat. All the best to you.

When it gets to the point of denying funding to artists that don't agree with your government or your personal beliefs then where will you draw the line? Will you make laws that deny a person from having certain opinions? These artists are only refusing to preform in settlements deemed illegal by the Fourth Geneva Convention and every related UN resolution pertaining to them. Israelis, for the most part, are in denial about what they are doing in the eyes of the international courts. The brave artists are only forcing you to look at the situation from the viewpoint of the rest of the world. They should be commended for their bravery.

letters to the editor and talkbacks all they want, carry picket signs all they want, but they get PAID to perform where they are assigned. If they don't want to work where assigned, fine, others can take their jobs and they can go look for any jobs they can find including washing dishes, walking dogs, sweeping streets.......

just belief,,they are doing more harm to Israel than the Combined arab world.your so Arrogant and Incorrect in your characterization of the Situation. as for the view of the rest of the World?The World, as you should know if you believe in God,is Blinded and a Majority View is not always right.Noah and his family where Correct,the World got it wrong! Learn from the Bible and the History of the Jews..tell me when was Israel ever loved by the World? when did Israel ever get any fair play?the Prophets told us in many chapters of the Bible that the Nations would be Deceived over Israel....This is of course because the Muslims make up a huge Block at the UN And when you have Muslims Controlling the UN HUMAN Right council,You have an Upside down world,and Like the Fox guarding the hen house.. Look up here and shut your anti-Israeli Gob..I Can say this because your always here Demonizing Israel and Jews..Your always pulling them down... Founder of Human Rights Watch Speaks Out "When I was in Israel, I went to the Gaza border and I learned that since the beginning of 2010, more than 11,000 patients with their escorts exited the Gaza Strip for medical treatment in Israel. Surprisingly and sadly, this policy has risks. I was told the Israelis make the Palestinians change cars at the border because cars had been rigged to explode. A woman on crutches was changing cars. She fell down. Three Israeli soldiers ran to help her get up. She blew herself up, killing the four of them. The Hamas government is preaching genocide of Israel, yet Israel is treating Gaza’s sick. It struck me as bizarre that in an asymmetric war of attrition, which we’re still learning about how to fight, a nation cares for the sick of a neighbor that is preaching genocide to its people.." http://www.unwatch.org/site/apps/nlnet/co

matter! if the state stops paying you salary - you can have an opinion!

I salue Livnat for standing up not only for her values but for the values of the huge majority of Israelis. It's high time we stopped allowing a small but loud minority of post Zionist leftists to hijack our country. I wish all true Likudniks would stand strong. Than destructive idiotic leftist policies like the racist building freeze and the Two State Final Solution would never get off the ground.

Have the decency to add a name to your post before you accuse a poster of being out of line !