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70 YEARS LATER, IRRATIONAL JEW-HATRED STILL RAMPANT

Exclusive: Marisa Martin covers blatant anti-Semitism among artists, musicians

Donovan’s cancelled Israeli “peace concert” last week pretty much sums up the state of the entire political world. It sucks. Peers of the singer are generally doing all they can to make things even worse, while issuing self-congratulatory commendations and awards to each other.

Original poster advertising Donavan’s twice-cancelled “Peace Concert”

Back to Donavan. He was to host “Ukuleles for Peace,” a Jewish-Arab youth group. Apparently he suddenly discovered complications with his contract, just as several artists have at the last minute on their way to Israel. But that’s only of his stories, the other being the flu. Take your pick. Donavan is infected with something spreading around the art community, a plague of anti-Semitism. Undoubtedly he doesn’t feel this way personally or his concert wouldn’t have been planned. Anti-Israeli pressure is making many artists “ill.”

They are just the most recent of a Titanic full of ship-jumping rats looking for an iceberg, even one run by terrorists. The Scottish singer follows a stampede of Western artists who cannot seem to distance themselves fast enough from Israel and ally themselves with terrorists instead.

Palestinian leadership is united in their hatred for Israel because Jews live there. It’s officially inscribed in their blatantly racist mission statements. Unfortunately, the majority of Palestinians share their contempt and readily admit it (unless speaking at the U.N. or to gullible students, artists or journalists).

Embarrassed anti-Semites in the art world need a rationale, so a fictional Palestinian narrative is handy. It’s repeated and elaborated on by a large proportion of the artistic community, who swallow it whole. Good progressives always live by slogans. Now “apartheid” was in disuse and has been appropriated to curse Jews. It’s bizarre, because the charge is so easily disproved that even liberals should be able to see it. But they don’t.

So groups like “Punks Against Apartheid,” described as a “global network of punk musicians, artists, and activists” exist, claiming to oppose oppression, exploitation, and racism. But they only focus on the “policies of the Israeli government toward Palestinians.” Boko Haran is stacking up dead Christian kids like cordwood not far from there, and they just can’t pry their eyes off Israel. Why is that?

These artists claim their righteous zeal for Palestinians was inspired by punk bands who stood against South African apartheid in the day. More like teenagers searching for gang photo opps, to get a little street cred, methinks. No danger of facing true injustice for these poseurs since they stand squarely with the aggressors.

Last year more than 100 of these playground justice artists signed a letter published in the Guardian. Blaming Israel for the impertinence of defending their citizens from rocket attacks, they were superbly patronizing. “We are announcing today that we will not engage in business-as-usual cultural relations with Israel. We will accept neither professional invitations to Israel, nor funding, from any institutions linked to its government.” Until what? All rockets hit their Jewish targets?

They join thousands of artists, entertainers and intellectuals who are either outright bigots or too weak to take a stand against their fellow anti-Semites. Pete Seeger, Carlos Santana and the Pixies are only a few who refuse to perform in Israel or travel there. Rhetoric in Hollywood and New York about Israel is eerily similar to that in Iran – or Turkey.

In fact, Turkish pop singer Yildiz Tilbe was in perfect accord with the boycott groups during the Gaza strikes. If she hadn’t thrown in that little shout-out for exterminating Jews and tweeting “God bless Hitler,” no one would have even noticed, since her stand was otherwise identical to Western artists.

Europe’s 2015 Reggae Festival in Spain was rife was anti-Semitism following the grand old tradition of their grandfathers. American-Jewish rapper Matisyahu was originally banned after refusing demands that he publicly support a Palestinian state. This proves what many of us suspected, and website Legal Insurrection noted about a major BDS shift. From banning and harassing only Israeli musicians, they are expanding their net over all Jewish musicians who fail to boycott their own people.

Audience for Jewish singer Matisyahu at Rototom Sunsplash Reggae festival. August 22, 2015. photo: AFP

Artists ganged up to bully holdouts to the “cause.” Like a pack of vicious junior-high girls, they threatened to walk if Matisyahu or other non-conformists dare show their faces. Thanks to objections of Spanish government and actual human rights organizations (a few remain), Matisyahu held on and performed with a vengeance before hostile Palestinian supporters. Who knew Reggae was all about demands of terrorist entities such as Hamas? Once, music was the main attraction.

Matisyahu sings “Jerusalem” at Sunsplash Festival 2015 in the face of anti-Israeli BDS hecklers in the audience:

Artists can't mess up this badly alone, and they are helped in their craven efforts by people in all fields. One is Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a civil rights champion of South Africa. Apparently he needs more lionization because he was instrumental in resurrecting "apartheid" from the dead and cursing Israel with it. Verily, Tutu insisted that Cape Town Opera shouldn't perform in Israel because of all that "apartheid." Israeli officials called him out on "vicious propaganda" and the concert went on, but with harassers imported from South Africa to Tel Aviv. Are they paid to be stupid?

On the visual arts front is the ubiquitous Banksy who has become fabulously wealthy, at least in part for his iconic swipes at Israel's Jews, especially their soldiers. He's everywhere, but generally in Israel where he leaves striking, anti-Semitic graphics on fences and walls.

Banksy has inserted himself into Europe's refugee affair, making highly publicized statements for complete capitulation to all demands. Recently he donated his dismantled "Dismaland" installation to the makeshift refugee camps in Calais. His original sign altered to spell "Dismal Aid" was almost immediately torn down. Even refugees know that anything associated with Banksy is hot merchandise.

Is this charity? Tons of plywood needed to be dumped somewhere and the garbage transfer was done with great fanfare and self-promotion. Even refugees accused Banksy of capitalizing on their plight. Would anyone be surprised to have seen showers of orchids and the name "Bansky" ornamentally hovering in the clouds? He's also dotted the landscape with pro-refugee material. Such is the fawning gravitas over Banksy in Europe that much of the current pro-Hamas climate could be attributed to him – at least with a younger crowd.

Banksy's contributions to Calais Camp. Altered "Dismaland" sign – not appreciated by the non-natives. Photo by Lee McGrath / Lincolnshire Aid 2 Calais

Not all Western artists have, by any means, caved to the viscous anti-Israeli rhetoric. Alicia Keys, Rhianna, Madonna, Leonard Cohen and Bob Dylan are a few. Artists are forced to walk a peer-inflicted gauntlet to perform in Israel, but these didn't crumple under bullying and shaming campaigns.

Carlos Santana and Banksy will never make a positive mark on history except for sales records. Santana has the Cha-cha thing going and Banksy is brilliant, but both are dead wrong about Israel and have a perverse sense of justice. Some artists are switching careers and picking up Jew-bashing full time. Pink Floyd's Roger Waters is everywhere, even pitching as a front man for Hamas at the U.N.

Jew-shunning has power to ignite true hate and violence in more than just Israel. French magazine Le Pointe dug this up. Terror group "Army of Islam" warned as early as 2011: "We had planned an attack against the Bataclan because its owners are Jews." Were supporters of the Israeli boycott among the Parisian victims as well last November?

So it happens that on the 70th anniversary of International Holocaust Day commemorating the truest form of "apartheid" man has known, Jews are more despised than ever. There may be no death camps, but it is terrifying trendy – and stealthy, which is a foreboding sign of premeditated malice. No one will stand at the Grammys screaming "I hate Jews!" It requires finesse. There's a surreal element here, where "issues" of singers, filmmakers, poets and painters are calling for complete annihilation of the only Jewish state.

More than others, these creative men and women are equipped to create powerful and exquisitely moving works of art – or propaganda. What a prodigious waste of talent.

Sources

• American Jewish musician barred from Spanish festival by anti-Israel boycotters
• Banksy's First Interactive Work Criticizes Police Violence Against Refugees

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My comments: Why Jews? It is because they Represent a Promise from God Almighty and therefore, Satan, Foments this Hatred.