Comments by "Kenneth Hammond" (@kennethhammond6683) on "" video.

  1.  @american2126  Israel’s colonial violence, greatly funded by America and Americans of course, extends to the arts. The state of Israel prevents Palestinians from pursuing their right to artistic and cultural expression on both an individual and organisational level. The occupation state continues to dispossess, persecute and punish artists and performers like Dareen Tatour and Hafez Omar for daring to speak out against its violence. Israeli forces often attack cultural and artistic institutions, disrupt events, destroy archives or deny Palestinian artists access to their own archives. For example, the entire Palestinian national film and archive was stolen from Beirut by Israeli forces in 1982. Palestinians are prevented from accessing their own visual history—documents created by their own people. Palestinians have no freedom to practice art, much less to travel to expand their practice, perform, exhibit and collaborate or participate in arts festivals abroad. The establishment of a dance group in Gaza would be near impossible, precisely because Gaza is besieged, and because arts initiatives are relentlessly targeted by Israel. Apartheid is not a theoretical concept, nor do we use the word lightly. It is a horrifying lived experience. Self-expression through the arts is a right that Palestinians are not afforded. While suppressing and abusing all Palestinians, the Apartheid "Jewish state" regularly inserts itself into creative spaces, such as the Sydney Festival, in an attempt to launder its atrocities and fabricate legitimacy on the world stage. https://overland.org.au/2022/01/from-safsaf-to-sydney-palestinian-resistance-and-the-festival-boycott/
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  2. What! no Palestinian arts team anywhere to be seen in this jewish apartheid sponsored festival, did the Palestinians even get invited to attend?
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  3.  @american2126  Did you know that the US also supported South African Apartheid right up to within weeks of its final collapse. Yes I know disgusting isn't it!!! Opponents of the cultural boycott of Israel say that art should be separate from politics. The supposed separation has offered Palestinian artists and art no protection from political persecution and censorship. Israeli attacks on Palestinian art range from shutting down exhibitions and preventing Palestinians from performing to stopping institutions from sponsoring and hosting events. This siege on Palestinian artists must be broken. Breaking the siege means that Israel has to change, and it won’t do that without pressure. That’s why many Palestinian artists have appealed to cultural workers and artists in the rest of the world to boycott Israeli government institutions. As with South Africa, the cultural boycott is an especially important method of resisting apartheid; Israel openly abuses culture as a form of state propaganda. The cultural boycott call has been attacked as detrimental to free expression. But the alternative is complicity in the abuse of culture by an apartheid state. Israel uses culture as a weapon to sell ‘Brand Israel’, and to cover up its attacks on the Palestinian people, just as apartheid South Africa tried to use sport to cover up its crimes. Opponents of the cultural boycott of Israel say that art should be separate from politics. The supposed separation has offered Palestinian artists and art no protection from political persecution and censorship. Israeli attacks on Palestinian art range from shutting down exhibitions and preventing Palestinians from performing to stopping institutions from sponsoring and hosting events. This siege on Palestinian artists must be broken. Breaking the siege means that Israel has to change, and it won’t do that without pressure. That’s why many Palestinian artists have appealed to cultural workers and artists in the rest of the world to boycott Israeli government institutions. As with South Africa, the cultural boycott is an especially important method of resisting apartheid; Israel openly abuses culture as a form of state propaganda. The cultural boycott call has been attacked as detrimental to free expression. But the alternative is complicity in the abuse of culture by an apartheid state. Israel uses culture as a weapon to sell ‘Brand Israel’, and to cover up its attacks on the Palestinian people, just as apartheid South Africa tried to use sport to cover up its crimes. Let's face it we cant be normalising and giving support to the disgusting spectacle of the "Jewish states" version of apartheid, such displays of this disgusting behaviour must never be allowed to prevail.
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  4. Absolutely nothing Antisemitic about resisting an Apartheid colonial state, so much so that Jews are and have been deeply involved in such resistance at a fundamental level.
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  5. It is indeed a revelation that Sky News Australia is so supportive of the disgusting crimes of Racism and Apartheid.
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  6. The Irony being Its headquarters would appear to be located in the Apartheid "Jewish state" of Israel.
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