It couldn't happen to a nicer guy
Conductor Daniel Barenboim, who is infamous in Israel for bringing the
music of Richard Wagner (Hitler's favorite composer) to Holocaust survivors, is to play a
piano recital in Qatar on Tuesday evening.
Famous Israeli composer and pianist Daniel Barenboim returns to Qatar
on Tuesday evening for a piano recital at the Katara Cultural Village
after his previous performances were cancelled last year.
The Argentinian-born pianist is known as an opinionated critic of Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian Territories.
The well-known composer founded the
West-Eastern Divan Orchestra with late scholar Edward Said. The pair
were due to perform at the second Katara Music and Dialogue Festival
last April with an orchestra combining both Israeli and Palestinian
musicians.
The performance last year was reportedly cancelled due to pressure from
supporters of a cultural boycott of Israel. The festival organizers
however state that the festival was cancelled due to “current political
developments across the Arab region.”
Israel Radio reports that Barenboim is to be greeted by adoring fans throwing tomatoes and rotten eggs at the 'Zionist' who married at the Western Wall just three days after the Six Day War.
Heh.
Labels: Daniel Barenboim, Qatar, Six Day War, Zionist
The Pope finds a Jew he likes
Pope Benedict XVI has found a Jew he likes. Unfortunately, it's radical symphony conductor
Daniel Barenboim, who
blackens the name of Jews and Israel wherever he goes.
The Catholic Church, which today is busy in fighting the Jewish and free existence of the State of Israel, could not have chosen a better performer than this unfeeling and egocentric "maestro", the cosmopolitan Jew and self proclaimed citizen of the world.
A week before his performance in Rome, Barenboim released an interview to Der Spiegel magazine, in which he attacked "the politicization of the remembrance of the Holocaust in Israel", along with "the alliance of the right and the Orthodox Jews that rules Israel today" and "Israel's strong lobby in Washington".
He not only dismissed the Arab hatred for Israel ("the Palestinians weren't primarily anti-Semitic. They just didn't accept their expulsion"), but Barenboim also refused to be labelled as an Israeli: "What is there to be proud of today? How can you be a patriot in a country that has occupied foreign territory for the last 45 years? One that isn't capable of accepting that there is also another account of the last 60 years."
And the ultimate one-dimensional historic encapsulation: "Yes, the Palestinians could have accepted the partition of Palestine on Nov. 29, 1947, and that was precisely what they didn't do, because they thought the partition was unjust. Why can't we accept that as a historic fact and turn the page? It's just inhuman".
Barenboim: Yes, the Palestinians could have accepted the partition of Palestine on Nov. 29, 1947, and that was precisely what they didn't do, because they thought the partition was unjust. Why can't we accept that as a historic fact and turn the page?
This is Barenboim, the Jewish anti-Semite.
Read the whole thing.
Labels: Daniel Barenboim, Pope Benedict XVI
Barenboim to conduct in Gaza
Anyone who knows the
past of Israeli-born conductor Daniel Barenboim cannot be surprised at the news that he is going to
conduct an orchestra in Gaza.
Barenboim, a Palestinian activist, will direct an organization of 25 European musicians on Tuesday, the French news agency AFP reported. The so-called "Orchestra for Gaza" was announced Monday by the United Nations special coordinator for the Middle East peace process.
It marks the first time that Barenboim, who was granted honorary Palestinian citizenship, will visit Gaza. He and the musicians are set to enter Gaza from Egypt through the Rafah crossing, according to AFP.
Barenboim has played for Palestinians in the West Bank on several occasions. He was refused entry to Gaza through Israel on several occasions; it is illegal for Israelis to enter Gaza.
Barenboim lives in Berlin and, in addition to being a citizen of Israel, also is a citizen of Argentina and Spain.
I wonder if he's going to play
Wagner again. At least this time it would be appropriate for the audience.
Labels: Daniel Barenboim, Gaza, orchestra, Rafah, Richard Wagner
