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

[Mr. Gillis]

Indeed the tide is turning!  This is hopeful gentlemen, hope to see you
tomorrow morning.
Greg


On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 2:11 PM Allan Baker via craic <
craic at lists.integralshift.ca> wrote:

> *Another confirmation of what Brother Ted has been telling us: that the
> tide has turned.*
>
> On May 27, 2021, at 1:27 PM, David Walsh via craic <
> craic at lists.integralshift.ca> wrote:
>
>
> 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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