Comments on: Tel Aviv unwanted in Toronto?

By: David-Joe

David-Joe — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 03:05:59 +0000

The most pathetic is the INACTION by Israel

It stands silent and say nothing or a quiet little voice named “Miri” or an idiot sounding voice named “Regev” is put in tv and in such neutral tones, timidity excuding from these people, they “defend” Israel’s position.

It reminds me of Jews from the diaspora, that decided “if we say nothing, they will go away”.

But along came the Israelis and instead of switching off the lights, closing the curtains and hiding behind locked doors – they went outside, faced the bullets and fired back and destroyed the enemy.

It is time Israel decided to ACT like Israelis once again and not cower like someone in the diaspora living in a foreign land on sufferage.

“Tuning out” the demands by a bullying American government [they always bully little guys but bend to China and Russia] over the “settlements” is a small start.

By: marcia lewis

marcia lewis — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 23:24:54 +0000

Most Americans have never been very fonda Jane. she showed her pink side during the viet nam days. now years later she apologized. but the senile old biddy hasn’t learned when to keep her moth shut. she was and still is, a fool!!!

By: Mickey Oberman

Mickey Oberman — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 19:11:26 +0000

Hooray for boycotts.

So far ticket sales for TIFF have exceeded all expectations. On line tickets are already sold out.

When a boycott of Israeli wines went into effect just before last Pesach, Israeli wines were sold out within a couple of hours.

More recently, there has been an attempt to boycott an exhibit of the Dead Sea Scrolls at The Royal Ontario Museum. It is drawing crowds.

Could it be that those people trying to institute the boycotts are really Israeli spies sent to boost sales of Israeli products?

Regardless, it is quite evident that Torontonians wont buy into the lies spread by those professional protesters.

By: Eli Liran

Eli Liran — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 13:47:28 +0000

I think people, all of those involve in any kind of debate, regarding the conflict over “palestine” should read and posses the following book;
Aothor: Joan Peters
Title; From Time Immemorial
this book covers the entier Conflict issues, informs you about the facts, and documents involves

best Regards
Eli Liran

By: edith cord

edith cord — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 13:13:57 +0000

Imagine the descendants of the Holocaust speaking about Germany as the Palestinian descendants speak today: Imagine the survivors, their childlren, grandchildren or great grand children claiming refugee status, demanding hand outs from the UN and from the rest of the world, imagine if they continued to harass Germany and Austria with every weapon at their command, imagine if they told Germans now living in their former homes that they had to get out, imagine that they persisted in continuing in Displaced Persons Camps dependent on charity, imagine that they would enlist the media, movie actors and even governments to demean Germany at nauseam, imagine them launching a propaganda campaign against all the Muslim countries they were forced to leave, together with their homes, businesses and roots – just imagine! Would you think it absurd? hateful? self-serving? Imagine the Germans driven from their homes in Poland in the areas east of the Oder/Neisse carrying on a similar campaign against Poland? Germans found a solution, so did all those displaced Jews. Why not the Palestinians???

By: Mikep

Mikep — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 13:13:34 +0000

And then there was the person, just convicted of killing his parents, pleading with the judge to show mercy because his was an orphan.

Would the leftist activists launch protests against the judge for not feeling sympathy for the poor orphan? After all, that display of naiveté would be consistent with their regarding the plight of Palestinian Arabs. Arab leaders refused to alleviate their situation by allowing resettlement or allocating resources to improve living conditions rather than for continuous attempts to destroy the Jewish state of Israel. There have been one hundred million refugees have since World War I and the only ones prevented from rising from that status have been the Palestinian Arabs. Documented facts or perspective?

By: k

Tue, 08 Sep 2009 05:43:41 +0000

It’s sad how people get brainwashed into thinking that Israel is evil and bad when there are some horrible massacres going on around the world that all of those so-called “activists” don’t even care about. They’re so brainwashed by the anti-Semites that they are acting in exactly the same way as it was in the Holocaust.

Banning movies is just as bad as saying, “we’re not letting you in because you’re Israeli”. The funny thing is that the majority of the Israeli film industry is left leaning so the movies would be successful and well-received around the world, so calling this “propaganda” is simply ignorant.

There are some countries in the world that would actually deserve a ban like this, yet I don’t believe in this act at all. It is just as bad as banning people based on race. In sports it is easy to recognize discrimination, but unfortunately, it exists here as well and just parades around as “activism”.

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 15:14:20 +0000

I suspect that people like these would simply like to ban all Israeli films from film festivals – along with any other Israeli artistic endeavors. This is part of the international boycott campaign – as far as I can tell, these people don’t believe that Israel has a right to exist (certainly if they say that Tel Aviv is “contested”) and thus no Israeli artists should appear at any international venue.