Banned Play on Palestinian Prisoners, Occupation Throws Israeli Theater Festival Into Turmoil
Artistic director quits popular Acre Fringe Theater Festival after public steering committee disqualifies ‘Prisoners of Occupation’
Source: Haaretz
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Israel revokes citizenship of hundreds of Negev Bedouin, leaving them stateless
Some were citizens for 40 years, served in the army and paid their taxes, but had their status canceled with a single keystroke and no further explanation
Israel seizes mobile classrooms in Palestinian village on eve of new school year
Trailers were to serve first- through fourth-graders; incident marks fourth such raid on West Bank villages in last two weeks
Artists Pull Out of Berlin Culture Festival Due to Israeli Embassy Funding
Several acts drop out after Pop-Kultur festival publishes embassy’s logo on website as part of 500 euros it contributed to help fund Israeli artists’ costs
The miraculous tale of the West Bank’s first university hospital and its ‘very Israeli’ CEO
Meet the man who performed Palestine’s first-ever artificial heart transplant
Israel delays half of Gazans seeking to leave Strip for medical care, WHO says
All those who seek permission are patients whom the Palestinians have allowed to leave Gaza and for whom they’ve committed to pay
So Ordered the Israeli Army: The Trumpeter and Violinist Can’t Leave Gaza for the West Bank
Israel’s High Court agreed to prevent the two 16-year-old musicians with Russian citizenship from leaving: ‘It should be noted that the musical development is not necessarily dependent on location’
Theater of the absurd: The Jewish state vs. Palestinian poet Dareen Tatour
What is a poem, what is a translation and who is a translator: The trial of an Israeli from the Galilee exposes regrettable aspects of local culture
My Family in Gaza Tells Me: We Can’t Breathe
They’ve given up trying to sleep in the suffocating heat, but that’s not all Gazans are giving up hope for: “The war is coming. I’m beginning to believe I’m going to die before I even experience living.”
Testimonies From the Censored Deir Yassin Massacre: ‘They Piled Bodies and Burned Them’
A young fellow tied to a tree and set on fire. A woman and an old man shot in back. Girls lined up against a wall and shot with a submachine gun. The testimonies collected by filmmaker Neta Shoshani about the massacre in Deir Yassin are difficult to process even 70 years after the fact.