British hypocrisy
When I saw this video advertised I thought it would be about the disruption of the Israel Philharmonic at Royal Prince Albert Hall last Thursday night. It's not. This video was actually posted to YouTube the day before the Philharmonic incident, but it could equally have been posted the day after.When Syrians perform at Edinburgh, England, no one protests about Assad's murder of Syrians and Palestinian refugees, or the persecution of non-Muslims in Syria. But when the famous Jerusalem Quartet performs at Edinburgh, and the audience just wants to listen to some nice Mozart, they are disrupted by a few protestors shouting "Jerusalem is occupied" (guess they don't know history, even if you don't recognize the annexation of East Jerusalem, everyone agrees West Jerusalem is part of Israel), or "Apartheid" (which is a shame to South African Apartheid, since you can't compare the two, and reflects a double standard when not applied to Arab countries, where this is real Apartheid, and not Israel).Let's go to the videotape.
That leads us to question - how much do these "human rights activists" care about Arab rights over an orchestra's performance? Or do they care more about demonizing and delegimizing the very existence of a Jewish state and its right to self-defense?
Did the protestors even know that two of the members of the Jerusalem Quartet are also regular performers with Daniel Barenboim's West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, which brings Arab and Israeli musicians together?
Labels: Bashar al-Assad, BDS, Edinburgh Festival, European hypocrisy, Israel Philharmonic, Royal Albert Hall, Syria
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 8:59 AM
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