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Robert Ballagh & IPSC call on Riverdance not to tour Israel

category international | rights, freedoms and repression | news report author Friday April 29, 2011 14:46author by Kev - IPSCauthor email culturalboycott at ipsc dot ie Report this post to the editors

Two Open Letters published

On 26th April two Open Letters were published concerning Riverdance's planned tour of Israel in September 2011. The first is from Irish artist Robert Ballagh who was the set designer for Riverdance, and the second is from Raymond Deane, Cultural Boycott Officer of the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign.
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Extract 1, Robert Ballagh: "Because I have signed up to support the cultural boycott I will not be travelling to Israel with Riverdance ... I believe that this non-violent cultural boycott will contribute to the struggle for justice for the Palestinian people".

Extract 2, IPSC: "Would Riverdance have toured South Africa during the dark years of Apartheid there? If not, then how can its creators and performers justify touring the rogue Israeli state that has devised its own form of Apartheid that in many respects is worse than that once practised in South Africa?"

Read the full letters at: http://cosmos.ucc.ie/cs1064/jabowen/IPSC/ipsc/displayRe...D=451

Irish Times coverage of the letters at: http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2011/0429/1....html

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 #   Title   Author   Date 
   “Dance your anger, dance your joys, dance your guns to silence, dance, dance, dance...”?.     TD    Fri Apr 29, 2011 18:07 
   Riverdance supports occupation     Jack Smith    Fri Apr 29, 2011 18:38 
   "Some Irish people"     Avi Weinstein    Fri Apr 29, 2011 21:28 
   ...against the wind     Fred    Mon May 02, 2011 22:48 
   Question     Fred 2    Wed May 04, 2011 20:10 
   interesting piece     opus diablos    Thu May 05, 2011 13:42 
   Then What?     Frank    Sun May 08, 2011 15:39 
   running interference....     V for vendetta    Sun May 08, 2011 16:20 
   As usual Frank cannot post here without telling at least one massive lie     me    Sun May 08, 2011 19:47 
 10   Stats are true. The Arab parties lie to themselves first then to you.     Frank    Mon May 09, 2011 10:59 
 11   poor Frank     me    Mon May 09, 2011 13:57 
 12   Zio-Racists still planning on stealing more Palestinian land     me    Mon May 09, 2011 14:45 
 13   frank gets his ass handed to him for the umpteenth time..     ZionistTerminator    Mon May 09, 2011 15:05 
 14   re: Frank's racism     me    Wed May 11, 2011 03:44 
 15   return of serve     opus diablos    Wed May 11, 2011 12:28 
 16   Still openly displaying your racism Frank     me    Wed May 11, 2011 12:33 
 17   Zio-racist Ethnic Cleansing of Palestinians in Practice     me    Wed May 11, 2011 14:00 
 18   About those peace-loving Kitten-Cuddling Israelis     me    Wed May 11, 2011 23:42 
 19   Illegal Racist Jewish Colonists storm Girls school, post racist slogans     me    Wed May 11, 2011 23:59 
 20   Israeli State sponsors 'Jewish KKK'     me    Thu May 12, 2011 00:10 
 21   BBC colludes with Zionist racism to misrepresent the conflict in Palestine     me    Thu May 12, 2011 12:12 
 22   Isrealis desire peace with a Palestinian state? . . . .Not so much     me    Thu May 12, 2011 12:27 
 23   Israeli Newsmedia compare Rabbinical Rulings to Nazi race-based Nuremburg Laws     me    Thu May 12, 2011 12:40 
 24   STFU Frank     me    Thu May 12, 2011 15:05 


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