blake 3:17
19th November 2010, 19:58
A group of human rights campaigners have protested outside the Tel Aviv Opera House, denouncing the Cape Town Opera for what they say is its support of Israeli oppression of Palestinians, SA Artists Against Apartheid said on Tuesday.
The CTO was in Israel for its premiere of the opera Porgy and Bess on Monday night.
Protesters parodied the songs featured in the opera to challenge theatregoers, spokeswoman Dasantha Pillay said in a statement.
They sang: Summertime Palestine, and the living aint easy. Apartheid, and the wall is so high, oh the world stands by and the US is funding, its time for us people to shout out and cry.
Cape Town Opera say no, it aint necessarily so. Apartheid could end If
you comprehend. And not just go on with your show. Boycott apartheid, Boycott apartheid. It's time to tell Israel, no.
Palestine, life there is not easy. Fascism is at the door.
Last month Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu asked the CTO to cancel its planned trip to Israel, saying it would be inappropriate and unconscionable. The opera rejected his call.
http://www.iol.co.za/news/world/protesters-slam-cape-town-opera-in-israel-1.831843
This is mashing up my neuro-circuits: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wElyrFOnKPk
The numbers aren't huge but they're happening.
The CTO was in Israel for its premiere of the opera Porgy and Bess on Monday night.
Protesters parodied the songs featured in the opera to challenge theatregoers, spokeswoman Dasantha Pillay said in a statement.
They sang: Summertime Palestine, and the living aint easy. Apartheid, and the wall is so high, oh the world stands by and the US is funding, its time for us people to shout out and cry.
Cape Town Opera say no, it aint necessarily so. Apartheid could end If
you comprehend. And not just go on with your show. Boycott apartheid, Boycott apartheid. It's time to tell Israel, no.
Palestine, life there is not easy. Fascism is at the door.
Last month Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu asked the CTO to cancel its planned trip to Israel, saying it would be inappropriate and unconscionable. The opera rejected his call.
http://www.iol.co.za/news/world/protesters-slam-cape-town-opera-in-israel-1.831843
This is mashing up my neuro-circuits: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wElyrFOnKPk
The numbers aren't huge but they're happening.