Submitted by Asa Winstanley on Wed, 05/30/2012 - 12:32
Israel’s national theater company performed The Merchant of Venice at Shakespeare’s Globe in London yesterday and Monday. But Habima’s presence was fiercely contested for months in advance, and both performances were disrupted by Palestine solidarity activists in the audience.
The Israeli embassy in London, along with pro-Israel bodies in Britain, is coordinating a planned effort to counter the call for a boycott of drama group Habima, it has been revealed.
Iman Aoun, artistic director of Ramallah’s Ashtar theater group, discusses the upcoming performance an Arabic-language version of Shakespeare’s Richard II at the Globe Theater in London.
In this week’s news from the global BDS movement, LA activists demand the city “Dump Veolia”; boycott activists tell the Red Hot Chili Peppers why they should cancel their upcoming Tel Aviv gig; and much more.
