[Craic] Toronto Artists challenge the Toronto Jewish Community on Palestine

[David Walsh]

A hopeful sign !

Toronto artists call on Koffler Centre to divest from United Jewish Appeal
Hundreds have vowed to boycott the arts organization if it doesn't dissociate from groups supporting Zionist goals
Toronto artists call on Koffler Centre to divest from United Jewish Appeal (nowtoronto.com)<https://nowtoronto.com/culture/toronto-artists-call-on-koffler-centre-to-divest-from-united-jewish-appeal?utm_source=nowtoronto.com&utm_campaign=65bfff9ac5-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2021_05_26&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_bfaa0e1d4c-65bfff9ac5-81138686>
By Radheyan Simonpillai -- May 25, 2021


Hundreds of artists and arts organizations have signed a petition<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HHKV_RygitVlHtd_WHpdM3OZ8KZuu3xdOelMiokDPF8/edit> calling on the Koffler Centre of the Arts to divest and cut ties to the United Jewish Appeal (UJA) Federation.

"While the Koffler has shifted to a social justice mandate, presenting work that is critical of settler colonialism and working with numerous racialized and politicized artists and organizations, this has not been extended to the Palestinian context," reads the petition, which is signed by organizations like the Chinatown Biennial, South Asian Visual Arts Centre and Xspace Cultural Centre.

"This is artwashing," the petition states, "in service of obfuscating its relationships to funders that uphold Israeli apartheid, namely the United Jewish Appeal (UJA) Federation."

The petition, which pledges a boycott of the Koffler Centre should it choose not to divest, says the UJA has "explicitly Zionist" goals.
Read More<https://nowtoronto.com/culture/toronto-artists-call-on-koffler-centre-to-divest-from-united-jewish-appeal?utm_source=nowtoronto.com&utm_campaign=65bfff9ac5-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2021_05_26&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_bfaa0e1d4c-65bfff9ac5-81138686>

David


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