[ April 24, 2024 ]
It is a shame that the festival had to be canceled, but the mayor did the right thing. The Nazism of the artistic director Algherese Enzo Favata should not be tolerated. The Boycott, Divest, Sanction [Israel] movement is this century’s Nazi movement, only on a worldwide scale. Same tactics, same viciousness, same lies, same thuggery — the Germans employed the same tactics. Preceding Kristallnacht, the Nazis held several days calling for Germans to boycott Jewish-owned businesses. This was the direct antecedent to the BDS movement. This is no different. This century’s Nazi officials are in the Irish parliament.
“Italian Mayor Cancels International Jazz Festival After Artistic Director Tries to Ban Israeli Artist,” IsraellyCool, March 15, 2019 (thanks to Wendy):
The International Jazz Festival Musica delle Bocche is held in Santa Teresa Gallura, Italy – or at least it has been until now. But this year’s festival has been cancelled, thanks to the mayor of Santa Teresa Gallura, after the festival’s artistic director revealed himself to be a BDS-hole (auto-translation follows):
Story continues below advertisementThe music festival Musica sui Bocche is in the eye of the storm. Israeli musician Eyal Lerner accuses the Algherese Enzo Favata, the artistic director of the event, which is held every summer in Santa Teresa di Gallura, of having excluded him from the billboard of the next edition because of his Israeli citizenship.
Eyal, with a post on Facebook, admits to having submitted the request for participation late, when the festival program had already been completed. But he adds that Favata in his response, which arrived via email, expressed an openly anti-Israeli prejudice. Lerner obviously took it very badly and, needless to say, his post sparked a real media storm, which also arrived in the room of the mayor of Santa Teresa di Gallura, who yesterday March 7, with a resolution of the council, suspended Musica sui Bocche.
According to Lerner, the artistic director wrote the following to him:
“Good morning. The festival has closed the program. But I must tell you that Musica delle Bocche policy is to boycott any Israeli or Zionist artist because of Israel’s attitude to Gaza and the occupied Palestinian territories.”
Eyal also posted the director’s elaboration to critical commentators (with Eyal’s own comments in caps):
I really think it is practically a great folly to think of myself as an antisemitic racist….I wrote him that really the program of the festival we had closed for some time, but after his further insistence, I also wrote that my personal thought (which I expressed in a private message) was influenced by the facts that I am personally very shaken by the facts in the Middle East and that I was in a personal position against the actions of the Israeli government towards the Palestinians in Gaza. . , so that I had undertaken a personal boycott (BUT IS ITS PRIVATE FESTIVAL?) towards the Government of Israel (continue reading to the end please). Do you remember the movement against apartheid in South Africa? Well then many artists and then others and others still boycotted the actions of a government … not of a people (BUT I AM THE GOVERNMENT?) … or of a religion … simply of a government, and in the end, reason prevailed against the APARTHEID. Today there are many artists and intellectuals who are trying to boycott to make a government think, that’s why I support this action (NO COMMENT)…I have friends and fellow Jews of many nationalities, I appreciate extraordinary Jewish jazz musicians (EVEN IF ARE YOU A ZIONIST?)….This is my attitude only towards the artists promoted by the Israeli government (THINK THAT WE ARE THE RUSSIANS OF STALIN). Let’s consider this my small contribution to the cause of awareness for a real peace between Israel and Palestine. Frankly I will be delighted to host musicians from Israel when there are glimpses of a positive solution to the problem with Gaza and peace will come very soon hopefully.
It certainly sounds to me like a clear case of BDS-holery. I applaud the mayor for taking his stand – here’s hoping there will be a backlash against the creative director, and not the mayor or Eyal Lerner, as a result of the cancellation….
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15 Comments
5 years ago
Islam forbids such music. Can you imagine what the future of Western music would have been had the Christian forces lost against the Muslim Ottoman Turks at the Battle of Vienna 1683? There would have been none. The mayor has much in common.
5 years ago
Bravo to the Mayor; the so-called artistic director is a rabid antisemite. What else is new? The blame game for the recent NZ massacre will place every American and Westerner on the blame list.
5 years ago
Reply to
Ziggy46
The mayor should be targeted for assassination. This is not a governmental concern. That Israeli who wanted to come submitted an application after the deadline and any reasonable person would have denied his application for being late. Eyal Lerner knew, or should have known, about the deadline. If the cancellation stands, that’s a slippery slope.
5 years ago
As though South Africa is a good example of anything. Since the blacks have taken power it has been all downhill. White farmers and their families are being murdered as we write. Soon the country will become another basket case like Rhodesia after it became Zimbabwe. From roses to starvation.
These liberal self hating cucks are disgusting.
5 years ago
bds is a way for a community of people to express their ingrained antijewish sentiments. It allows them to split hairs so internally they feel like they are not against or prejudiced against Jewish people but are against a supposed belief that Israel is an aggressor against a weaker, poorer and disadvantaged falsely named party known as palestinians . bds gives the antijewish community an avenue to express their antisemitism under the guise of blaming the action of the government of Israel instead outright antijewish feelings that they grew up with and are solidly imprinted .You can show these antisemites case after case where Israel took a defensive posture with a lot of restraint before responding to an attack , or historically defending their country in wars , but their breed of hatred is generally unchangable. It has nothing to to do with logical debate. It has to do with their feelings of hatred disquised as “bds”. Therefore the solution is to keep defending and to keep fighting . Logic is an alien subject to savages.
5 years ago
The backlash should only be against the mayor. What a private citizen does, so long as it isn’t unlawful, is not government’s business. The mayor could have criticized the decision. What the mayor did is no different from what a dictator does. Additionally, Eyal Lerner tried to come after the deadline passed, meaning he warrants backlash for being stupid. If the mayor refuses to resign, defiance of his authority is warranted and dare the mayor to spill blood.
5 years ago
somebody wants to attend Apartheid Jazz Festival ???
or Land Thief Jazz Session ….??
or Smart Bombs Jazz Week … ??
or Babies Killing Jazz Contest …??
or Lethal Drones Jazz Talents Show …???
5 years ago
I hope there are no mosques in Santa Teresa Gallura that are contrary to God and his saints.
5 years ago
The nazi the communist the Muslim are all enemy’s of free people every where
5 years ago
I enjoyed watching that new zeland video..I know most of us feel the same but mums the word or else. Besides, that Mosque converted boys into jihadis.
5 years ago
Reply to
Pantalones
your comment is VERY dangerous ….. with very serious consequence ..
remember …this is internet forum …not a campus billboard …
do u think this anti muslim site is not a big blips on authority’s radar ????
5 years ago
moslums are the most hate filled things
