Comments on: Boycott Israeli Dance Company on US/Canada Tour

By: Andie

Andie — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 19:48:21 +0000

This site is like a casslorom, except I don’t hate it. lol

By: Indian

Indian — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 02:40:05 +0000

Whoa, whoa, get out the way with that good ifnomriaton.

By: anonymous

anonymous — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 17:10:29 +0000

reading this reply made me think of the hitler youth. the same brainwashed arguments. wake up israel, the world does NOT hate you.
it seems rather that you hate the world and try to keep an "enemy" to justify your crimes against humanity. this is the core of every fascist,nationalistic ideology. they create an outside " enemy " to unite the people inside.

i wish you well.

love and peace

By: rabin

rabin — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 17:00:40 +0000

good. then maybe you warmongering,bloodthursty,sadistic savages can be civilized through art?

By: persian

persian — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 16:53:29 +0000

dear Yoav ,

god bless you. You are truly a noble soul.

By: ella

ella — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 12:59:29 +0000

boycott form the USA??? UK?
how are you better then Israel?
we are all as bad as each other !
stop hating and bring solutions
Palestine and Israel do not need more hate they need peace and hope
Boycotting is adding petrol to a fire that has been going for long enough

By: Harlan

Harlan — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 18:45:57 +0000

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By: twoblueeyes

twoblueeyes — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 23:18:54 +0000

and the Bedouins participate in the Israeli army as trackers you dumb ass. They are not crazy f-ers like the Muslims.

By: twoblueeyes

twoblueeyes — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 23:15:49 +0000

First of all, there is no Palestine and there never was. Israel belongs to the Jews. Islam was created in recent history and currently there are 56 Muslim majority countries. There are 1.5 billion Muslims in the world and there are plenty of places for the Muslims to live; they do not need to live in Israel. They want control of Israel so they can show the world that they have taken over another small country with a strong military. The Muslims are a highly inbred ethnic group with many social, physical, and psychological defects caused by inbreeding. Gaza is a giant mental institution. Gaza is the home of tunnel permits being sold by Hamas for $10,000. each. Gazans pay a percentage of everything transported through the tunnels to the Egyptian "guards" and to Hamas. The Iranians are manufacturing missiles in four parts and packaging them in four boxes to be reassembled inside Gaza when they are smuggled through. The Gazans were given the hydroponics greenhouses purchased by the American government from the Israeli government. The Gazans did not pay for this technology, they were given the technology in order to have a legal income. The crazy Gazans demolished the greenhouses as soon as the Israelis left Gaza. They don't belong on our land; they can go to the surrounding Arab countries and leave us alone.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 21:50:00 +0000

Despite a given person’s opinion regarding the Arab-Israeli conflict, performance of art is so often a venue for people to come together, regardless of religion, ethnicity, politics, etc, and share a common experience. Regarding your talking points… “Batsheva explicitly refused to distance itself from Israel’s military occupation and racist policies”–They have neither expressed approval of military policies! Truly, they are quite apolitical. “Batsheva is a Jewish-only dance company.”–Where did you get this information? About 2/5 of the company is not even Israeli, said their company manager Eldad Mannheim, so it’s quite possible that they are not Jewish. On their website, they recently posted a notice about an upcoming audition. It does not show any such disclaimer. Regarding Naharin’s and the dancer’s military and reserve service–A draft requires all citizens to serve in the IDF. However, many, if not a majority, of dancers, were able to get out of their service by claiming to be mentally unfit or are religious and thus serve community service instead. All in all, the company has not renounced Israeli’s actions, but are not making a political statement in their dancing (which is absolutely incredibly athletic, impressive, artistic, expressive, and beautiful, I might add). I find this action of boycott to be inappropriate and also counterproductive to the peace process. While Batsheva is an Israeli company that is proud of their people and culture, they are not representative of every political opinion (of which there are many!). It upset me so deeply that artists would be targeted. It is the artists–the dancers, musicians, actors, painters, and poets–that are the people who bring people together for shared experiences of compassion. If we cannot share art with each other, how can we share peace?