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Fascinating article in the NYT Sunday magazine about the queen of Israel’s culture wars and the defense of Mizrachi culture and society which has been sidelined and belittled since the founding of the State and definitely needs to be honored and empowered as part of a complicated civil rights struggle within Israel. But in the hands of Miri Regev and her Likudnick and more fascistic friends, this is all framed as a rightwing attack on Ashkenazim and leftwingers in general, with tolerance and multiculturalism trashed in the mix and a more fervent state sponsored McCarthyism gaining dominance. A real tribute to the power of culture, art, music, film, theater....

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/23/magazine/miri-regevs-culture-war.html?_r=0

Miri Regev’s Culture War The Israeli minister of culture and sports wants nothing less than an overthrow of the nation’s elite.

Check out essay on recent film screening in Chicago area.
http://alicerothchild.com/2016/10/sojourn-in-the-midwest/

Sojourn in the Midwest | Alice Rothchild

If you live in the Boston area, I encourage you
to attend the extraordinary Boston Palestine Film Festival.
http://www.bostonpalestinefilmfest.org/

Boston Palestine Film Festival

Jewish and Palestinian activists try to build a cinema in Hebron....

Jewish, Palestinian activists try to build a cinema in Hebron | +972 Magazine As soldiers and settlers look on, dozens of foreign Jews join Palestinians in the segregated city of Hebron try ‘to make the unbearable a little more bearable.’ Police detain six Israelis among the group, prevent others from even…

Have you heard of the Ramallah Contemporary Dance Festival?

Free Advice and an Interview with Farah Saleh | Nicole Bindler | thINKingDANCE tD writer Nicole Bindler interviews Palestinian dance artist Farah Saleh after her performance of her new solo “Free Advice” at New York Live Arts as a part of the Live Ideas Festival. Saleh was born in Syria in 1985 in a Palestinian refugee camp.…

Israeli hasbara in action, clearly in response to the call for a cultural boycott.....

Palestinians call on Oscar nominees to reject Israel propaganda trip Palestinian human rights activists are calling on Oscar nominees not to accept travel vouchers supplied by the Israeli government as part of the gift bag that will be given to the nominees in the a…

Comments on the roles and obligations of the writer in political discourse by Ru Freeman, editor of Extraordinary Rendition: (American) Writers on Palestine, which includes my poem, Inspired by the First Intifada.

Interview with Ru Freeman: “You can’t let words be co-opted by a certain group” EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW As Iberia flight 3316 approached Ben Gurion airport last week the pilot provoked fury on board when he announced the aircraft’s imminent arrival in Palestine. One passenger summed up why when he told Israel’s Channel 2 TV, "We liv

Important analysis by Susan Abulhawa on framing, language, and the colonization of the narrative.

Occupied words: On Israel's colonial narrative Analysis: Palestinian novelist Susan Abulhawa deconstructs Israel's insidious language of power.

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Claire Messud, Askold Melnyczuk, Alice Rothchild, & Adam Schumacher: Extraordinary Rendition -... Extraordinary Rendition brings together the work of sixty-five prominent writers to examine America’s culpability in the denial of human rights and dignity to Palestinians.

Changing the discourse, Palestinians in Gaza take the stage...

Gaza shares ‘ideas worth spreading’ at TEDx Shujaiya Isra Saleh El-Namy reports from TEDx Shujaiya, a recent event in Gaza organized independently as part of the popular TED conference series. Organizer Heba Madi says, “It is really a golden op…

"Israel’s soul sickness" hits the mainstream media. Changing the narrative....

‘Most-read’ article at Washington Post calls Israel ‘savage, unrepairable society’ Times change: A day after the formerly neoconservative Washington Post ran an article calling for boycott and sanctions against Israel written by two prestigious Jewish scholars, it runs a piece by…

This distorted and dangerous version of history contradicts the personal narratives and honest historians that give real clarity to this conflict....

Netanyahu’s claim that Hi**er got idea of Final Solution from a Palestinian draws global disgust The criticism of Netanyahu as a Holocaust trivializer for his claim that Hi**er didn’t want to kill the Jews till a Palestinian leader convinced him of the plan is so universal today that the…