This is happening all over the US and Canada also…disrupting invited Israeli teachers and speakers…it is Nazi Germany all over again but this time the United States government, but not her people, are on the wrong side….it is time to remove the anti-semites in Washington and state leadership and apologize to our brothers and sisters in Israel, Our last ally in the world….
Posted: 04 Sep 2011 08:24 AM PDT
Stephen Pollard
The Telegraph
04 September ’11
The demonstration at the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra BBC Proms concert was against Jews, not the Israeli state.
Until Thursday night, nothing in the history of Proms broadcasts had forced a concert off air. Certainly not the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. On the very night the tanks moved into Prague, the great Russian cellist Mstislav Rostropovich was at the Proms with the USSR Symphony Orchestra. And he was performing, with intense poignancy, the Czech composer Dvorak’s cello concerto. I have a cherished recording of the concert. The audience was rapt and not a word was uttered.
When Chinese performers grace the Proms with their presence, there is not a word of protest about their government’s abuses of human rights. Nor should there be. They are musicians, not politicians.
But when the Israel Philharmonic played on Thursday evening, a band of around 30 thugs – none was wearing jackboots, but they should have been – launched into chanting and mock singing, disrupting the concert to such an extent that BBC Radio 3 decided it could not go on with the broadcast…..
Stephen Pollard is editor of ‘The Jewish Chronicle’
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