Netanyahu: Israel won't fund boycott efforts from within

As you probably know, our strike did not work out so well for actors, but our strike was over working issues, inclusion in internet profits, etc., issues of fairness to actors from their employers, while your boycott is much more important because it deals with issues of fairness between people. Speaking only for myself, I am with you 100%. micki SCHLOSS Member Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Member American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA)

even if i boycotted arizona by refusing to travel there as long as their dumb "immigration law" (aka "hate the brown people law") stayed in place, the leader of my country doesn't say that i'm part of "international efforts to delegitimize america with economic, cultural and academic boycotts". what a shame that the people in israel are under the control of a freedom-sapping moron.

Do not worry netanyahu---we in the interntional community will finance them--if they are opposing you and your criminal enterprises.

As reported in Ynet a few days ago, the boycott of settlement produce both in the territories and world-wide is having a strong effect. Now Netanyahu is getting worried - these actors are making a clear strong statement from within Israel itself. They are to be applauded for their principles and should be given as much support as possible by like-minded Israelis.

... it means that one can loose ones livlihood for not toeing the political line of the government... Strongly advise the PM to rethink his threats... democracy means not only allowing the likes of Ovadia Yosef to rant and rave belligerently against our neighbors... put also to allow civil protest...

Theatre people can make history. Remember staging of Forefathers' Eve (Dziady) by Mickiewicz in 1968 that created opposition movement in Poland and Havel’s velvet revolution in Czechoslovakia in 1989. It was more difficult to abolish communism in Eastern Europe than Israeli occupation in the territories.

I say that the government should stop funding theatres and those that are not commercially viable should close. Real quickkly these primadonas who live off the taxpayer will run to earn a shekel wherever there is an audience instead of using their subisidized position to puruse their personal political agendas. Do they think teachers, police, firefighters, tax collectors, electric company employees, etc. should be able to decide based on their personal politics where they perform their governemnt paid service. In that case I say that all Israelis who believe that the Arab towns of Um el Fahm and Taibe should not be part of israel but rather a part of the palestinian territory should refuse to provide any services to thsoe towns or other Arab villages which have violently demostrated agaisnt the legitiamte government of the State.

The only time I stepped foot in the Occupied Territories was when I was a reservist and was ordered to do so. As a civilian I have no obligation to enter an area that I regard as illegally held by my country. As a university lecturer, I fulfil my job obligations by teaching at my university. I am under no obligation to give a lecture at the Ariel college and nobody could legally deduct anything from my salary for not doing so. Similarly, the actors. If the theatre companies want to perform in Ariel because the government threatens them by economic blackmail, let them send substitute actors who are willing to go there in place of the actors who act genuinely by their conscience.

in locations with which they are not comfortable - unless the theatre group to which they belong is funded totally or in part by the state. In this case they cannot decide not to perfom in a location which is part of the state. Their solution is simple - resign from the group and earn a living without state money! Theatregoers can then choose to see them perform if they so desire - or might also make their own political judgement as to whether or not they wish to pay to see them!

It is interesting that the first boycott by Israelis against the settlers is by actors, but this profession allows them to be less inhibited. For a similar reason, foreign actors are the first to boycott Israel for the sin of occupation. A boycott by Israelis is appropriate because it allows the citizenry to express its true opinion, which the Knesset has a more difficult time doing due to political considerations. The boycott should be more widespread, and not only for cultural events. People who are against the occupation should not employ or give work to settlers, thus allowing them to maintain their harmful "lifestyle". Let the people of Israel speak out in a way the settlers can hear. Of course, the theater companies as organizations being supported by the State will not be able to participate. They will put up performances with replacement actors. The settlers will see B-level shows, but the most important thing is for them to know what Israelis think of them.