The Israel ballet interrupted - No tutu is big enough to cover Israel's War Crimes"

On Friday, February 19, 2010, American and Israeli human rights activists interrupted a performance by the Israel Ballet at the Flynn Theater in Burlington, Vermont, unfurling banners which read "Sponsored by Apartheid Israel" and "No tutu is big enough to cover War Crimes".

The Israel Ballet is currently touring the U.S. as part of an official state campaign, dubbed "Brand Israel" to use the Arts to revive its sagging image abroad in the wake of unanimous condemnation from the major human rights organizations and, most recently, the U.N. "Goldstone Report".

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[msmcis]

@ralphiesmom2 Nazareth: Sheikh Nazem Abu Salim Sahfe, the Israeli imam of the Shihab al-Din mosque in the city, was indicted Sunday for promoting & recruiting for global jihad & calling on his followers to harm non-Muslims. Plots born of Sahfe’s "sermons": followers plotted to assassinate Pope Benedict XVI during his trip to Israel last year. They torched Christian tour buses. They abducted & stabbed a pizza delivery man. "Disciples" arrested in Kenya en rout to join al-Qaida forces in Somalia.

[msmcis]

@ralphiesmom2 "Fatah leader Mahmoud Abbas continues to serve beyond his expired term, leaving "Palestinian" without any signs of democracy. Ahmed Salhab, who said he was tortured in a PA prison, told the Times, “I had to eat lying on my back. I had to pray on my back and other inmates had to carry me to the toilet. I never broke the law. In the past, nobody would have believed that the PA would torture its own people. But now everybody knows that they do not respect human rights.”

[msmcis]

@ralphiesmom2 Hamas charged on Monday that continuing arrests of its members in Judea and Samaria “are poisoning the atmosphere. A statement from its Damascus headquarters stated, “More than 50 armed men of the security services of the Palestinian Authority on Sunday night raided the home of MP Fathi al-Qarawi, arrested one of his sons and confiscated computers." It also charged that a preacher was “kidnapped” from her home in Shechem.

[msmcis]

@ralphiesmom2 IDF:. “We found a dead deer, three hunters and their illegal hunting weapons,” said Capt. David Fadida, the company commander. “This is the second illegal hunting incident we’ve been able to catch in the last two months and we will continue our cooperation with the Israeli Nature and Parks Authority in order to protect animals in the area.” Three Palestinians admitted to hunting the deer for the Eid al-Adha holiday. They will be tried for hunting & illegal possession of weapons.

[ralphiesmom2]

msmcis -- are you a robot? your response doesn't make any sense. i believe you are an automated response to criticism of the war criminal state, israel.

nice try, robot. real humans know israel is an illegitimate state.

[msmcis]

@ralphiesmom2 What is wrong with that? Israel is indeed more than just the war against its enemies.

[tophatandtails]

Ridiculous and hypocritical. Arabs have more freedom in Israel and event the West Bank than anywhere in the Arab World. Yet I doubt these people will be protesting Egypt or Syria or Saudi Arabia anytime soon.

[tophatandtails]

Ridiculous and egotistical. Arabs have more freedom in Israel and event the West Bank than they have anywhere in the Arab World. And yet I doubt these people wlll be protesting Egypt or Syria or Saudi Arabia anytime soon.

[msmcis]

Absolutely disgusting! Shame on the protesters.

[rachelgolem]

hey, nobody is afraid to sit next to ME on an airplane!!!!!!