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Report: Jane Fonda joins boycott of Toronto film festival over homage to Israel
By Haaretz Service
Tags: Israel News, Danny Glover 

Jane Fonda, Danny Glover and Eve Ensler have joined the growing list of artists who are boycotting the Toronto film festival over a program honoring Tel Aviv's 100th anniversary, gossip blogger Perez Hilton reported on Friday.

The three have added their names to a letter aimed at festival officials claiming that Tel Aviv was built on violence, ignoring the "suffering of thousands of former residents and descendants," Hilton reported.

Several Israeli films are being screened at the festival's new City to City event, which this year celebrates Tel Aviv's centennial.
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Culture critic Naomi Klein and director John Greyson are among those who had already announced their protest over the homage to Tel Aviv.

Two-time Oscar winner Rabbi Marvin Hier, who founded the Simon Wiesenthal Center, called the boycott "an attack on the heart and soul of Israel."

"People who support letters like this are people who do not support a two-state solution," he was quoted as saying on Hilton's blog.

"By calling into question the legitimacy of Tel Aviv, they are supporting a one-state solution, which means the destruction of the State of Israel. I applaud the organizers of the festival for celebrating on the 100th anniversary of Tel Aviv. If every city in the Middle East would be as culturally diverse, as open to freedom of expression as Tel Aviv is, then peace would long have come to the Middle East."

Fonda, 72, rose to fame as an actress in the 1960s, but has since become known for her political activism, including her opposition to the Vietnam and Iraq wars.

Glover, who is probably best known for co-starring with Mel Gibson in the four Lethal Weapon movies, has also been politically active since his student days. He made headlines in 2006 when he traveled to Venezuela with a group of celebrities to show solidarity with president Hugo Chavez.

Ensler, whose father is reportedly Jewish, is an American playwright and activist who wrote The Vagina Monologues.

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      1.   Jane Fonda 16:57  |  sorin 01/11/09
      2.   What else can one expect 16:57  |  Linichka 01/11/09
      3.   Rabbi Hier and the Museum of Tolerance built on Arab graves 16:57  |  Michael 01/11/09
      4.   #3 Michael, You must be joking 16:57  |  Murray of Montreal 01/11/09
      5.   Blessings on them 16:57  |  Eric 01/11/09
      6.   The protestors ignore from whom violence started & continues 16:57  |  Joe 01/11/09
      7.   All your states were not built on violence? 16:57  |  Gilad 01/11/09
      8.   who minds these three " has been"? 16:57  |  michel 01/11/09
      9.   "The ususal suspects" 16:57  |  Boris 01/11/09
      10.   Wake up Israel! 16:57  |  Haaretz Fan 01/11/09
      11.   jane fonda 16:57  |  flora 01/11/09
      12.   Fine 16:57  |  17 01/11/09
      13.   I have my own boycott . I have not watched Jane Fonda since I saw 16:57  |  Jack-miami 01/11/09
      14.   Morons 16:57  |  James 01/11/09
      15.   A Celebrity Mind, A Terrible Thing To Waste 16:57  |  Robert 01/11/09
      16.   boycott fonda 16:57  |  Observer 01/11/09
      17.   Oh dear, Jane Fonda et al, you`ve fudged it... 16:57  |  Esther 01/11/09
      18.   Nobody gonna miss those two here in tdot 16:57  |  Eli 01/11/09
      19.   Boycott of Toronto Film Festival 16:57  |  Cliff Taffet 01/11/09
      20.   And I will boycot Jane Fonda 16:57  |  AA 01/11/09
      21.   Film fest 16:57  |  Hanry 01/11/09
      22.   Propaganda 16:57  |  Max 01/11/09
      23.   Silly and Uninformed as Usual 16:57  |  Jane 01/11/09
      24.   TRAITOR Hanoi Jane needs all the publicity she can get 16:57  |  PETER SM 01/11/09
      25.   #17 Esther....Sorry, you are all lumped in 16:57  |  Lynn 01/11/09
      26.   REALITY CHECK 16:57  |  Marco 01/11/09
      27.   Socialist progressives, so needy 16:57  |  Lynn 01/11/09
      28.   #3 Michael....what drivel 16:57  |  Lynn 01/11/09
      29.   a joke a d ay keeps the miseries away 16:57  |  v hardman 01/11/09
      30.   Dear Jane 16:57  |  Ron 01/11/09
      31.   Will always be Red Jane! 16:57  |  MARK KLEIN, M.D. 01/11/09
      32.   #3Murray of Montreal, just so long as they are not Jewish bones? 16:57  |  Maureen Ann 01/11/09
      33.   Fonda and the racist left 16:57  |  jez 01/11/09
      34.   Hanoi Jane 16:57  |  Oded 01/11/09
      35.   Boycott of TO film festival very wrong.... 16:57  |  Smadar 01/11/09
      36.   Re 10 Who cares what others think 16:57  |  alan the real one 01/11/09
      37.   Toronto is spared a visit, Tel Aviv Chai! 16:57  |  Imperator 01/11/09
      38.   Boycott those who boycott Jews 16:57  |  Mark Jeffery Koch 01/11/09
      39.   Eve Ensler is a serious human rights activist 16:57  |  don`t write her off 01/11/09
      40.   Lynn 28 Are you calling Haaretz drivel? 16:57  |  Michael 01/11/09
      41.   Aussie Maureen 16:57  |  Rambo 01/11/09
      42.   Murray of Monterial # 4 16:57  |  Al 01/11/09
      43.   Needing the Spotlight 16:57  |  Bob 01/11/09
      44.   Freedom of Choice 16:57  |  Chris Linthwaite 01/11/09
      45.   And what do we learn from that....???? 16:57  |  Swiss (Dino) 01/11/09
      46.   "Tel Aviv was built on violence" (??) & the US was built on what? 16:57  |  ivo 01/11/09
      47.   Jane Fonda/Mrs Ted Turner - known antisemite 16:57  |  x-ray 01/11/09
      48.   I thought J. Fonda was a friend of the Jews 16:57  |  Steve 01/11/09
      49.   Tel Aviv founded on sand, not violence 16:57  |  Kobi 01/11/09
      50.   How many US cities 16:57  |  Jojo 01/11/09
      51.   Thats ok, I don`t celibrate the 4th of July because the Indians 16:57  |  Jew 01/11/09
      52.   jane fonda boycott of Toronto film festival 16:57  |  o hagen 01/11/09
      53.   this is just the beginning of something bigger 16:57  |  int. boycott 01/11/09
      54.   So they also want tel-aviv? 16:57  |  rafiq 01/11/09
      55.   Hollywood should be given back to the native americans 16:57  |  Yaron 01/11/09
      56.   Funny, really 16:57  |  Norwegian 01/11/09
      57.   # 7 gilad 16:57  |  Axel 01/11/09
      58.   Tel Aviv Has Madonna 16:57  |  leo 01/11/09
      59.   Naomi Klein 16:57  |  Sarah 01/11/09
      60.   Ha`aretz wrong about Fonda and VietNam 16:57  |  Joe Sittizen 01/11/09
      61.   Murray doesn`t know Israel! 16:57  |  Palestinian Brit 01/11/09
      62.   #39 If only you weren`t being facetious... 16:57  |  nancy reagan 01/11/09
      63.   jane dear....(fonda) 16:57  |  alan 01/11/09
      64.   Gilad # 7 16:57  |  Philippe 01/11/09
      65.   Smadar 16:57  |  Walid 01/11/09
      66.   infidels 16:57  |  alan 01/11/09
      67.   Hanoi Jane strikes again 16:57  |  Chaim Ben Kahan 01/11/09
      68.   Danny Glover and Mel Gibson good friends of Jews? 16:57  |  Baruch Gold 01/11/09
      69.   Danny Glover 16:57  |  Dan 01/11/09
      70.   Ask any Vietnam veteran about Jane Fonda. See what they say. 16:57  |  Bill Pearlman 01/11/09
      71.   Jane fonda was the US Tokyo Rose who caused US soldier deaths 16:57  |  bernard ross 01/11/09
      72.   Insentient Likudniks 16:57  |  Les Lyshkov 01/11/09
      73.   Kudos 16:57  |  Jack Kuper 01/11/09
      74.   murray 4 16:57  |  potobac 01/11/09
      75.   boycott 16:57  |  aagreiche 01/11/09
      76.   Jews were killed in Arab cities so lets boycott them too 16:57  |  EgyptJewRefugee 01/11/09
      77.   We support human rights as long as you agree with us 16:57  |  Dan 01/11/09
      78.   Don`t get me started on this Naomi Klein 16:57  |  Dan 01/11/09
      79.   Walid, fair enough, but then no films about Beirut either 16:57  |  Israeli 01/11/09
      80.   The racist rabbi is afraid of secular democracy and equality 16:57  |  peacelover 01/11/09
      81.   Tel Aviv 16:57  |  Saul Eisenstat 01/11/09
      82.   This Boycotters Are Decent People - and Hurt Palestinians really 16:57  |  soeasytomakefriends 01/11/09
      83.   Jane Fonda, Danny Glover & the rest 16:57  |  Christine 01/11/09
      84.   i`ll gloat again and again, because you don`t listen 16:57  |  VIPER 01/11/09
      85.   Bankrupt statements 16:57  |  Truth 01/11/09
      86.   Hail Fonda 16:57  |  Fallujah 01/11/09
      87.   If this was over the settlements, I`d understand, but Tel Aviv? 16:57  |  Aharon 01/11/09
      88.   TRUTH What 2 states? The one the Pals keep rejecting 16:57  |  PETER SM 01/11/09
      89.   Viper # 62 16:57  |  ChanahS 01/11/09
      90.   VIPER-#62-give back which land? 16:57  |  Daniel Leopold 01/11/09
      91.   #16 Observer another boycott!! 3rd try 16:57  |  maoriboy 01/11/09
      92.   Land of the free, home of the brave... 16:57  |  Joseph 01/11/09
      93.   Toronto 16:57  |  Motic 01/11/09
      94.   Edinburgh 16:57  |  Yossi 01/11/09
      95.   Israeli #69 16:57  |  Walid 01/11/09
      96.   to bad for j.fonda 16:57  |  herman 01/11/09
      97.   Jane Fonda was cheering the enemy 16:57  |  *BEN JABO 01/11/09
      98.   Without Jews There Would Be No Jane Fonda, Danny Glover etc. 16:57  |  Jane 01/11/09
      99.   Rabbi Hier - does iSrael support 2 States?!! 16:57  |  joe Cascio 01/11/09
      100.   Jane Fonda Criticism 16:57  |  Ami Daniel 01/11/09
      101.   Hey Jane ever read a history book? 16:57  |  Danite 01/11/09
      102.   @66 Les ,hats off to you 16:57  |  Welshman 01/11/09
      103.   95 comments thus far 16:57  |  Non relevant 01/11/09
      104.   #96 joe Cascio - I`ll answer your question 16:57  |  *BEN JABO 01/11/09
      105.   The JDL response 16:57  |  Meir Weinstein 01/11/09
      106.   Crucial omissions, Smadar, Walid, Israeli, Danite 16:57  |  sh 01/11/09
      107.   about Jane fonda`s position 16:57  |  clod 01/11/09
      108.   The Tel Aviv Ghetto 16:57  |  Eamonn 01/11/09
      109.   sh 16:57  |  Walid 01/11/09
      110.   who is afraid of jane fonda 16:57  |  ombudsman 01/11/09
      111.   Jane Fonda and others 16:57  |  Ethan Rubinstein 01/11/09
      112.   Bravo Jane 16:57  |  wahbi 01/11/09
      113.   # 34 Oded 16:57  |  maoriboy 01/11/09
      114.   Toronto Boycott 16:57  |  Rifraf 01/11/09
      115.   #98 Jane of Palm Beach 16:57  |  Chris Linthwaite 01/11/09
      116.   # Ben Jabo. America WAS the enemy! 16:57  |  Maureen Ann 01/11/09
      117.   another bankrupt lie from Peter SM 16:57  |  Truth 01/11/09
      118.   FALLUJAH when are you going to give back the billions you stole 16:57  |  PETER SM 01/11/09
      119.   The Coast from Jaffa to Caesarea was empty (Full of sh #104) 16:57  |  Steve of Mevasseret 01/11/09
      120.   IS THE SAME 16:57  |  TOBIA 01/11/09
      121.   #50 JOJO 16:57  |  PAL 01/11/09
      122.   violence 16:57  |  JOHN 01/11/09
      123.   Jane Fonda and boycotts 16:57  |  Slim Dan 01/11/09
      124.   Jane Fonda joins boycott of Toronto film festival over homage to 16:57  |  bill 01/11/09
      125.   fonda`s boycut 16:57  |  bill 01/11/09
      126.   TRUTH millions of Arabs into Israel is NOT 2 state solution 16:57  |  PETER SM 01/11/09
      127.   Boycotts 16:57  |  arieh zimmerman 01/11/09
      128.   Fonda, Glover, Ensler are ignorant 16:57  |  D Sharavi 01/11/09
      129.   Protest and boycott is the moral thing to do ... 16:57  |  John 01/11/09
      130.   One things I can say for Jane Fonda 16:57  |  *BEN JABO 01/11/09
      131.   One thing I`ll say for Jane 16:57  |  *BEN JABO 01/11/09
      132.   Remember the Indians 16:57  |  Anonymous 01/11/09
      133.   Boycott of TIFF over homage to Tel Aviv 16:57  |  Euge1 01/11/09
      134.   Murray of Montreal 16:57  |  Michelle 01/11/09
      135.   Jane 16:57  |  Michelle 01/11/09
      136.   Fonda 16:57  |  Michelle 01/11/09
      137.   Jane Fonda 16:57  |  Alan 01/11/09
      138.   jane fonda 16:40  |  Theresa Tova 01/11/09
      139.   Jane Fonda 03:57  |  So long Jane 02/11/09
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