Monday, September 20, 2010

A Yom Kippur Prayer For Jews who are "Proud to be Ashamed to Be Jews"

Phyllis Chesler  "Also in 2010, some American Jews encouraged a new flotilla, “The Audacity of Hope,” as envisioned by Rashid Khalidi, to “break” the Israeli blockade of Gaza. Jewish signatories Anna Baltzer (again), Medea Benjamin of CODEPINK, Hedy Epstein (again), Michael Ratner, and Starhawk joined the likes of Rachel Corrie’s parents, Angela Davis and Alice Walker.
"And now we have a new boycott, this time by American actors, writers, playwrights, and directors, who are supporting the Israeli refusal to perform in the city of Ariel’s new cultural center in Israel....Thus, the likes of Ed Asner, Theodore Bikel, Tony Kushner, Mandy Patinkin, Stephen Sondheim, Harold Prince, Wallace Shawn, Eve Ensler, Judith Malina, Rosanne Barr, Alicia Ostriker, as well as non-Jews such as Vanessa Redgrave, Kathleen Chalfant, Cynthia Nixon, Juliane Moore, and Mira Nair, have all signed a petition supporting the Israeli theatre people who are refusing to perform."
Original Artwork By Bosch Fawstin via Infidel Bloggers Alliance

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