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Protest to hit Israeli concert



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Published Date: 28 August 2008
THE Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign will protest outside a concert by four young Israeli musicians at the Queen's Hall tomorrow.
The Jerusalem Quartet are set to make their Festival debut on Friday with a programme of works by Haydn, Smetana and Brahms.

But Edinburgh-born Jewish writer and honorary president of The Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Marion Woolfson is calling for their performance to be cancelled.

The protest starts at 10am outside the hall.





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  • Last Updated: 28 August 2008 10:25 AM
  • Source: Edinburgh Evening News
  • Location: Edinburgh
 
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Ron D,

Enybru 28/08/2008 13:59:04
I'm sure it'll make the protestors feel better about themselves - if only the solution to the problem could be this simple.
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Scotrandish,

Edinburgh 28/08/2008 19:00:30
The solution is extremely simple. Unfortunately the 'four young Israeli musicians' are not peace activists or Israelis who are working for a solution (if they were I'm sure Marion Wolfson would have supported them). They are in fact the 'Jerusalem Quartet', a MILITARY band that are on record saying that holding a violin in one hand and a rifle in the other expresses their 'Zionism'. A military band and proud members of an occupying army that has been brutalizing and dispossessing Palestinians for decades.

It's also very interesting that they were invited to Edinburgh as part of the 'Musicians without borders' events. Israel is the only country in modern times (to my knowledge) that still REFUSES to legally define it's borders! It's been an expansionist militant state from its inception, and they're still coveting water-rich Palestinian, Syrian, and Lebanese lands.

Ironic. These "four young Israeli musicians" are the only musicians truly 'without borders'.

Ron D, instead of mock the protestors (insinuating they do things to feel good), why don't you suggest constructive methods that we in Scotland can contribute to bringing a just solution to the Israel/Palestine conflict?

Or do you post snarky comments on this website just to feel better about yourself?
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Rob Saunders,

Edinburgh 28/08/2008 20:55:09
Holding a violin (or viola or cello) in one hand and a rifle in the other may express their Zionism but I doubt it will do much for their Haydn, Smetana or Brahms for which a bow is the more normal accessory. At least they're not defiling the music of Tippett (imprisoned as a conscientious objector during WW2).

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Bea9,

Edinburgh 28/08/2008 22:14:18
At least you seem to agree there's a problem Ron? Is it the same problem? Are you that cynical about all things (people bothering to feed their dogs in the morning, etc.), protesting, or just protesting on this issue?

I for one shall be protesting tomorrow, and will be doing so as an expression of solidarity with Palestinians--they will hear and feel a little less forgotten for it--and as a chance to raise awareness of the nature of Israel as a supremicist/colonial and unavoidably--imposed as it was upon the vastly non-Jewish indigenous population of Palestine (the one Zionists liked to pretend wasn't there/came later to get a bit of the pie/various other crazy things still regularly heard from straight faces) for which it had no answer--racist state; which has spent the last 60 years trying to make up for the fact that it failed to ethnically cleanse ALL of the indigenous population of Palestine in 1948; and is certainly no less deserving of boycott, divestment and sanctions than ever was Apartheid South Africa.

You are welcome to join the protest or, if you prefer, to come along and oppose it. There should be instructions on effective ways to do this at the Israeli Foreign Ministry, World Zionist Organisation websites amongst others. Asking why we aren't protesting about Darfur (this minute) is popular at the moment--before we all new about Darfur it was of course some other by some quickly forgotten place.

 

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