Ken Loach calls for cultural boycott of Israel | Film | theguardian.com

I have aways been reluctant to blame artists for the polices of their government. I remember well the disconnect between Johnson and me and the current disconnect between Obama and what I believe in .... but I also think there is a time when the artists themseves MUST step up and actively in voice and practice say NOT IN MY NAME , It happened n South Africa, ..it is now now time for artists to say NO to funding from the Government inside and outside of Israel. And time for all artists to say NO to performing inside . Silence means complicity. Yes bottom line it is that simple, I remember going to South Africa to report on the end of the Artist Boycott just when Mandela was being released fron jail. remember hearing him speak in a little white church from where if you looked outside the window you coud see the island he had been imprisoned in. I remember going to Sun City (yes Sun City) to interview Dali Tambo (son of Oliver Tambo) and going with him to the black casino that was part of the complex for the first AIDS benefit concert in South Africa . I remember vividly the almost all black audience stood up and screamed wildly Mama Kia Mama Kia ( i think that's the spelling) when this Dusty Springfield-ish slightly butch blond took the stage and stood there as the room went wild for a good 20 minutes because she had stood up at the peak of her career and said NOT IN MY NAME and was "blacklisted:." the smile on her face radiated her joy at the end of apartheid and the fact she new she had made a the right choice as a white South African. And when she sang it seemed every singe person in the room knew the words to her blacklisted songs. the night was full of back AND white artist who had done the same thing, It seems the time is right for what director Ken loach is calling for ....

Ken Loach calls for cultural boycott of Israel | Film | theguardian.com

TV’s most Islamophobic show - Salon.com

Almost  everyone I know (including myself) says HOMELAND  was  their favorite must watch TV show this season ( It's on cable which means it is ok for smart  "I don't watch TV except for news programs" folk to 'fess up. even  though the producers brought to public acclaim and ratings rule the pro-torture "24", the TV  favorite of those forgotten villains  Dick Chaney and Donald Rumsfeld   Or should I say this show bleeds into creating a film  audience for Zero Dark Thirty?  Or should I ask is it a good thing that smart little girls have a new alternative to SUPER MODEL as a choice of  what they want to be when they grow up? Is it really true that that best CIA/NSA agents are women ?  Will only a radical feminist who thinks there is no essential difference between men and women except for acculturation be jumping up and down with joy as Claire Danes character and Kathryn Bigelow direction exposes the stupidity of men as they use their female brains to  'save the world? Well here is a "she said , he said in print/online reactions " .. Where do you stand?

Laila Al-Arian is a journalist based in Washington D.C. critiques HOMELAN

Yair Rosenberg suppots HOMELAND, He s a writer for the NYC based Zionist publication T

Hey I didn't miss a single chapter but had this uneasy feeling from day one. Only asking but I will duck just in case !