America vetoes UN resolution on Gaza

America, via it's ambassador to the UN, John Bolton, has used its UN Security Council veto to insulate Israel from formal condemnation of its atrocities in Gaza.

Britain abstained, France and Russia voted in favour, but America refused to allow the United Nations to condemn the Israelis after Wednesday's mistaken rocket strike on Beit Hanoun, which killed 19 civilians

Hardly news now, is it? but I suppose it is worth a mention that:

Although the resolution was modified by Qatar to include condemnation of rocket attacks into Israel, Mr Bolton described it as "in many places biased against Israel and politically motivated".

Goodness gracious! A UN resolution "politically motivated." These zionists don't even have to make sense any more.

Now Ynet supports the blood libel

Look at this. Ynet, the online version of Yediot Ahranot, an Israeli mainstream paper, is reporting on Israel's killing of children. Before I post a snippet I had better direct you to Anthony Julius's chilling work "On Blood Libels." It's about how Jews have been falsely accused of killing children for annual ritual purposes in the past. Now that Israel has turned the killing of children into a daily ritual, the "blood libel" schtick is supposed to be useful in stifling criticism of what Israel is actually doing by conflating present truths with past fantasies.

Ok, you've read your Anthony Julius? Yes? Good. Now I can post from this mainstream Israeli newspaper:

Nineteen Palestinian children have been killed in the past 10 days, making November already the second deadliest month of the year for young people in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, UNICEF said Friday.

The UN children's Fund said 17 have been killed in Gaza and two in the West Bank so far in November. Only July - when 40 children were killed - was worse, the agency said.

What children and adolescents have endured the past few days will likely have a long-lasting impact," UNICEF spokesman Michael Bociurkiw said in Geneva. "They have seen family members killed and their communities destroyed.

They have been confined to their homes, in many cases without access to food, water or electricity."

Israeli artillery shells ripped through a residential neighborhood Wednesday in the northern Gaza town of Beit Hanoun, killing at least 18 people , including eight children.

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said a "technical failure" meant the artillery hit the homes instead of an

orange grove, some 1,500 feet away, from which troops saw rockets fired seconds earlier.

Bociurkiw estimated that more than 300 children have been injured this month by Israeli attacks. For the year, he said 116 Palestinian children have been killed, compared with only 52 last year.

Anthony Julius, where are you? Even child killers are entitled to legal representation.

Independent Gaza?

This is the front page of the Independent today.

Don't forget to read Anthony Julius's complete load of tosh - On Blood Libels - at, where else? the Engage site. It's important that you read that stuff so that you know that you are allowed to say that Israel kills children but you will be accused of antisemitism if you do.

Is Perdition an insult?

Here's an article from today's (well, yesterday's) Jewish Chronicle on the proposed showing of the play Perdition which is based on a chapter from Lenni Brenner's book Zionism in the Age of the Dictators:

Anti-Zionist play an ‘insult’
10/11/2006
By Racehel Fletcher
PLANS for Scottish performances of a play about Zionist collaboration with the Nazis in the week of Holocaust Memorial Day have been condemned by local Jewish leaders as “a deliberate insult to all who perished.”

The Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign intends to stage “Perdition,” by the late Jim Allen, in Edinburgh and Glasgow, declaring that “the only way to pay tribute to the Holocaust is to understand what actually happened and what lessons we can learn from it.”

However, Scottish Council of Jewish Communities director Ephraim Borowski accused the SPSC of “aligning itself with Iran, Hamas and Hizbollah, whose leaders are on record as seeking to wipe Israel, and indeed all Jews, off the face of the earth.

“The thesis [of ‘Perdition’] is that those threatened with annihilation by the Nazis deserve condemnation for saving themselves and their families.”

Mr Borowski added that “any true supporter of peace and co-existence in the Middle East should honour the memories of victims of extremism.”

“Perdition” was inspired by a chapter in American author Lenni Brenner’s book, “Zionism in the Age of Dictators.” Mr Brenner is expected to attend a performance of the play and has invited Jewish historian Professor David Cesarani to a discussion about the play’s Zionist-Nazi relations. Professor Cesarani dismissed the move as a “publicity stunt.”

SPSC’s chairman Mick Napier rejected claims of insensitivity, arguing: “The ethnic cleansing of Palestinians cannot be understood without looking at the collapse of European civilisation in the 40s.”

Now if Holocaust Memorial Day is about understanding the holocaust, why do certain people who support the day, reject the idea of telling people about an example of zionist collaboration with the nazis? I wonder if such people want people to understand the general principles at all.

Moron Grossman

Woops, sorry, I meant to say "more on Grossman." Ok that was childish so sorry again. Anyway, what I am trying to say is that there are more letters in the Guardian on David Grossman's ghastly speech to, well, I'm not sure who to but Linda Grant says that there were 100,000 people there "by the way." Here's one of the letters:

Less than 48 hours after David Grossman stood up in Tel Aviv's Rabin Square to denounce the "hollow leadership" of Israel (A state of missed opportunities, G2, November 7), its actual leaders, the Israel defence force, kills 18 Palestinians in their beds. By all accounts, that adds up to 71 killed in one week. Maybe prime minister Ehud Olmert and defence minister Amir Peretz should give way to Avigdor Lieberman, the ethnic-cleansing deputy prime minister, and Dan Halutz, chief of staff and specialist in ham-fisted overkill, to finish the job, in Lieberman's words, "surgically". This has all the signs, not of an error, but a misguided policy.

Like many diaspora Jews, I am both ashamed and enraged at these actions. Instead of bombing the Palestinians into defiance, why can't Israel just talk?
Michael Kustow
London

And another:

David Grossman seeks to expose the moral degradation of Israeli governments, but succeeds also in exposing the infantile romanticism of the Zionist left. He describes the creation of Israel as a "political, national and human miracle", but for a much larger number of people - the inhabitants of Palestine who were expelled or killed, and their descendants still living in exile or under military occupation - it was a catastrophe. And while we can all sympathise with his grief over the death of his son, a tank commander in the invasion of Lebanon, some of us have seen these same tanks in action against Palestinian children armed only with slingshots.
Stephen Williams
London

There are others but those were my faves.

Linda Grant has now been joined, actually I think that might be rejoined by someone in the Engage comments. Here's a reminder of what she had to say about the gruesome prospect of this "left" zionist, Grossman, being on the sharp end of a boycott of Israel:

And this is the man the cultural boycotters want to silence . . . There were 100,000 people in the audience, by the way.

And the rejoinder:

Since Grossman supported the criminally disproportionate attack on Lebanon, he has no moral standing. He also misrepresents the position of Hamas which is that if Israel withdraws to the pre 1967 borders they will guarantee peace for a generation. Negotiations are irrelevant because all Israel has to do is obey UN resolutions and international law.

Let's be clear about who it is Linda Grant wants to save from a boycott, a left zionist who supported the war on Lebanon until it became clear that Israel couldn't win.

Again I say that the zionist smearsite, Engage, is a friend to the anti-zionist movement.

Quick! Call Anthony Julius!

This is a job for Anthony Julius. Now the Chicago Tribune is giving vent to the notorious blood libel*:

BEIT HANOUN, Gaza Strip -- In the alley among the shell-damaged houses there were pools of blood and children's shoes.

Stunned men sat against the pockmarked walls, speechless, and a throng of grieving women overflowed from a nearby house.

A barrage of Israeli artillery shells that crashed into a crowded neighborhood killed at least 18 people in this town early Wednesday, eight of them children, and wounded dozens more, most from the same extended family. It was the highest number of Palestinian civilians killed in a single strike since fighting erupted between Israelis and Palestinians six years ago.

According to Engage, it's very important to read Anthony Julius's essay on the blood libel before accusing Israel of killing children. I wonder if Joel Greenberg of the Trib follows Engage.

I'm guessing there are many people who don't know what the blood libel against Jews was. It was the allegation that Jews killed children for their blood to make unleavened bread for the passover. It has nothing to do with the fact that Israel routinely kills children but it is now used to scare people away from stating that irrefutable fact. Of course these tactics will more likely cause antisemitism than stop it but why should the zionists at Engage worry about that?

Israelis tortured?

I noticed this speech by David Grossman - an Israeli writer - on the Engage site yesterday and I didn't think much about it. They'd got it from Ha'aretz. I noticed there was one comment by Linda Grant (I'll return to that). But someone emailed me today to say that there were two letters in today's Guardian slagging Mr Grossman and so I read the whole maudlin speech. One of the letters deals with this little chunk:

Appeal to the Palestinian people.......

Look at them, just once, not through a rifle's sights and not through a road block. You will see a people no less tortured than we are. A conquered, persecuted, hopeless people. Of course, the Palestinians are also guilty of the dead end that we've reached. Of course they bear part of the blame for the failure of the peace process. But look at them for a moment in a different way, not just at their extremists, not just at those who have an alliance of mutual interest with our own extremists. Look at the great majority of this wretched nation, whose fate is bound up with ours, like it or not.

This was part of a "where did Israel go wrong" sort of article and the first letter addresses that:

Having read David Grossman's speech (What happened to my beautiful Israel, G2, November 7), I can't help but ask: what happened to my beautiful Palestine? No one will doubt the sincerity of Mr Grossman's desire to see peace between Israelis and Palestinians, especially after the tragic loss of his son in the recent Israeli attack on Lebanon. A tragic loss that echoes on a daily basis within every Palestinian home in the occupied Palestinian territories and the Gaza Strip. We all mourn and we all suffer.

But, Mr Grossman must also know that the cause of this spiral is not Hamas or the Palestinian resistance, or the suicide bombers. The cause is the illegal and inhuman occupation of Palestinian land. Israel has it in its grasp to simply abide by international law and all UN resolutions calling for an end to its occupation, and to allow the Palestinians to live in freedom and dignity. My beautiful Palestine will then join hands with his beautiful Israel to show the world what two great people can achieve, if mutual respect and value for human life are upheld. Only then, can the death of Mr Grossman's son and the sons of Palestinian mothers and fathers be honoured.
Antoine Raffoul
Raffoul Darrer Architects, London

I prefer this one though:

David Grossman refers to Palestinians as "a people no less tortured than we are". With the possible exception of the occasional supposed liberal Jewish commentator, there are of course no longer any actual tortured Jews, whether we are talking about bodies or souls. There are, however, countless Palestinians being actually tortured by the occupiers of their country.
Shihab Nuaimi
London

But the funniest comment of all wasn't in the Guardian, it was on the Engage site by Linda Grant:

And this is the man the cultural boycotters want to silence . . . There were 100,000 people in the audience, by the way.

Now what is she trying to say? Imagine, if a full blown cultural boycott was in place we may have missed a zionist likening the suffering of the Palestinians to that of the Israelis. Terrible thing!

I've said before that Engage will help the boycott movement more than hurt it.

Israel's trail of death in Gaza

This is a report from the Guardian this morning:

Hours after the Israeli military pulled out of the town of Beit Hanoun yesterday morning, Talal Nasr was at the cemetery to search for a spot to bury the body of his 13-year-old daughter.

It was the first time for six days that any of the town's residents had been allowed out of their homes, the duration of Israel's biggest military operation in the Gaza Strip for months. The streets quickly filled and many headed out to mourn and bury their dead.

Also I just got this snippet from an Arab Media Watch email:

Since the Israeli "redeployment" from Gaza on August 20, 2005, Israeli
occupation troops killed 694 Palestinians and wounded four thousand.

It's good to know that Israel can withdraw from occupied territory and still defend itself.

Harry's Place saves my reputation!

Thanks to Reverend Lovejoy and one or two others, the zionist Harry's Place website has deleted some comments from a recent post on Saddam Hussein after someone used the name Mark Elf to post the following comment:

You lot will be gloating about this like all zionists. Those of us with a consistent anti-imperialist position remember that Saddam did great things, like hanging zionist spies in central Baghdad in 1969 - he was vice-President at the time, but was the man at any rate. He showed that to confront zionism you've got to have the bollocks to do it. Now he's paying for that with his life because the zionists who run the court have decided that's what has to happen. And now the zionists will trigger a civil war in Iraq. Meaning that instead of confronting zionism and driving out the zionists, Arabs and Muslims will be fighting each other, which is what the zionists want. And while they're doing that, zionists will further consolidate their hold on the globe. You lot are a bunch of zionists. I hate zionists, I really do. Every sentence I've written here contains a negative reference to zionists or zionism. The day is coming when zionism will be overthrown.
Posted by Mark Elf at November 5, 2006 01:55 PM

Google the name Mark Elf and you will see that there is an American jazz guitarist with the same name as me but I know I didn't post the comment and I doubt if he did. It took just five minutes for this chap John B no.2 to notice the comment wasn't very me-like.

Surely the HP moderators will remove the above libel comment. Of course its real author is not Mark Elf.
Posted by John B no2 at November 5, 2006 02:00 PM

Anyway, they did eventually but not before Reverend Lovejoy posted the following:

What would Mark Elf need to sue for libel? Proof that his reputation had been damaged.

Well he's certainly gone down in my estimation
Posted by Reverend Lovejoy at November 5, 2006 02:14 PM

which at the time of writing is still in place.

Thanks for that Reverend. You're a saint sir!

Ariel Sharon is unwell

It's true. According to the Guardian, he's taken a turn for the worse.

At last someone hates Borat

Sometimes I feel hopelessly out of step. I was in a gym changing room recently and Borat was on the tv and people (keep fit types) were gathered round the box laughing while Borat spoke about transvestites at an award event. The thing that first troubled me about this Borat character was his suggestion that antisemitism is common currency in Kazakhstan. His stupid "throw the Jew into the well" song, sung to an audience of supposed rednecks in the American south would have been many English speakers first introduction to an emerging former Soviet state and people. Now Tony Karon of the Rootless Cosmopolitan site has weighed in with a post on what he sees as Borat's racism:

Most of the discussion about Borat and anti-Semitism misses the point. The ADL wonders if he’s not playing a dangerous game since “not everyone will get the joke.” But they may be missing the point: The prejudice that Borat is promoting is not against Jews, it’s against Kazakhs, branding them with one of the most toxic slurs in Western discourse — the charge of anti-Semitism.

A few weeks ago one of Sacha Baron-Cohen's (ie Borat's) writers wrote about antisemitism at the Edinburgh festival in the Times. I can't be bothered to dig it up now but it was yet another tiresome "don't even go there" sort of piece. The Jews are untouchable for political critique and humour. The Kazakhs or anyone else however, they're fair game.

Thankfully, Tony Karon is not alone. The Jewish Chronicle makes a very different point from that made by Tony Karon, arguing that "Borat fatigue" is starting to set in already. Good thing, I'd say.

Neo-cons repent...almost

Here's a Guardian article headed Neocons turn on Bush for incompetence over Iraq war. A few named "neo-cons" are quoted as changing their minds about the Iraq invasion. But look at their reasoning:

Mr Perle, a member of the influential Defence Policy Board that advised the defence secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, in the run-up to the war, is as outspoken in denouncing the conduct of the war as he was once bullish on the invasion. He blamed "dysfunction" in the Bush administration for the present quagmire.

"The decisions did not get made that should have been. They didn't get made in a timely fashion, and the differences were argued out endlessly," Mr Perle told Vanity Fair, according to early excerpts of the article. "At the end of the day, you have to hold the president responsible."

Asked if he would still have pushed for war knowing what he knows now, Mr Perle, a leading hawk in the Reagan administration, said: "I think if I had been delphic, and had seen where we are today, and people had said, 'Should we go into Iraq?', I think now I probably would have said, 'No, let's consider other strategies for dealing with the thing that concerns us most, which is Saddam supplying weapons of mass destruction to terrorists'."

And what about the chap who said that the war on Iraq would be a "cakewalk?"

Kenneth Adelman, another Reagan era hawk who sat on the Defence Policy Board until last year, drew attention with a 2002 commentary in the Washington Post predicting that liberating Iraq would be a "cakewalk".

He now says he hugely overestimated the abilities of the Bush team. "I just presumed that what I considered to be the most competent national security team since Truman was indeed going to be competent," Mr Adelman said.

"They turned out to be among the most incompetent teams in the postwar era. Not only did each of them, individually, have enormous flaws, but together they were deadly, dysfunctional."

He too takes back his public urging for military action, in light of the administration's performance. "I guess that's what I would have said: that Bush's arguments are absolutely right, but you know what, you just have to put them in the drawer marked 'can't do'. And that's very different from 'let's go'."

Mr Adelman, a senior Reagan adviser at cold war summits with Mikhail Gorbachev, expressed particular disappointment in Mr Rumsfeld, who he described as a particular friend. "I'm crushed by his performance," he said. "Did he change, or were we wrong in the past? Or is it that he was never really challenged before? I don't know. He certainly fooled me."

Mr Adelman said the guiding principle behind neoconservatism, "the idea of using our power for moral good in the world", had been killed off for a generation at least. After Iraq, he told Vanity Fair, "it's not going to sell".

Did you se that? "the idea of using our power for moral good in the world?" Leave aside the relentless aggression called for by this imperialistic idea. How does he square "moral good in the world" for the neo-cons' support for Israel?

Haifa's own goal?

Many thanks to Joe90 for this little gem.

Play interrupted last night, between the Gers and Haifa, when a protester ran onto the pitch and tried to handcuff themselves to Haifa's goalpost
BBC report
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotl...est/
6112176.stm

Watching someone get huckled by the powers of the state made the visiting Haifa supporters feel right at home!

http://www.osamasaeed.org/
More on the doings from Osama (mc)Saeed's blog

Good news from Israel at last....

Just in from Isakofsky.

Not all Israelis are gun-totin nasties colonising the West Bank. The soft Zionists are right after all. Some are good, clean baby-lovin, baby-huggin good guys. And the good news is that they're coming! Yes, the Israelis are coming to a digital TV set near you. If you've got a baby, going to have a baby, or even fancy having a baby, now's your chance to do it, Israeli-style, care of baby TV. And the especially good news is that they don't do black or brown babies, like those shmoozey liberal US shows like the old Sesame Street and even Playhouse Disney. No, Israeli Baby TV doesn't go there.

Now why would that be...?

Israel's Ministry for Silly Ministries

Richard Kuper has just posted an article by Azmi Bishara to the Just Peace UK list. It's in al-Ahram and it's about Israel's political system which brings Bishara to this comment on the new Ministry for Strategic Threats:

Only in Israel could such a thing be created. This is a country that has not yet appointed a minister of social affairs, but after coalition negotiations now has a Ministry of Strategic Threats. Perhaps in the future we will see the Security Fears Ministry, the Demographic Threat Ministry, the Non-Recognition of Israel Ministry, the World Is Against Us Ministry, the Chosen People Ministry, or the Ministry of Greater Israel.

I thought they had all those already.

Blood libel in Ha'aretz?

Before reading anything about the State of Israel killing yet another small child you had better read this article about "blood libel" on the Engage website by Anthony Julius. I mention this because Ha'aretz has now reported that Israel killed a four year old Palestinian boy in Gaza this morning, or rather that he died from wounds sustained last night.

Gaza hospital officials said early Friday that a four-year-old boy had died of wounds sustained Thursday by IDF shelling during the operation.

The piece had originally appeared as:

A 4-year-old boy and 40-year-old woman were among four Palestinian civilians killed Friday during an Israel Defense Forces operation in the northern Gaza town of Beit Hanun, Palestinian sources said.

That was removed together with any reference to a 4 year old being killed by Israel's moral army. Perhaps they were fearful of the "blood libel" charge. Or perhaps they were just checking the story. Well now the piece has reappeared as above and so they have presumably got confirmation of this latest child killing by the State of Israel. When the story had disappeared altogether I did a google search for "4 year old boy" killed israel. It yielded 19,000 sites. That doesn't of itself mean anything. Many of the sites could have been about 4 year old Israelis being killed but the first site to appear was the New York Times from 1989 with a headline 4-Year-Old Boy Killed In Clash in West Bank.

A 4-year-old Palestinian boy was shot to death in the West Bank today during a clash between demonstrators and the Israeli police, Arabs and the army said.

Palestinians identified the boy as Amjad Nasser, from the village of Kufr Kad, near Jenin. Officials at Jenin hospital said the boy died from a gunshot wound in the chest. A military officer said the army was investigating the incident after ''a policeman was forced to fire his gun during a stone-throwing demonstration in Kufr Kad.''

I'm sure this killing of children by the most moral army in the world and the most powerful army in the Middle East has been going on since way before 1989 but nowadays Israel can't always rely on the sympathetic press that it used to get in those days. So now we have a leading lawyer writing a hopelessly irrelevant article (or is it a book? I haven't actually read it) on a false allegation that used to be levelled at Jews in medieval times and feudal societies in the hope that it will be conflated with a truthful allegation that the State of Israel kills children. Those zionists, what a bunch!

Bush more dangerous than Kim and Ahmadinejad: international survey

The British public often surprises me with its poll returns of world affairs. Remember 60% believed Israel to be the biggest threat to peace in the world back in 2000? Well see this Guardian report today:

America is now seen as a threat to world peace by its closest neighbours and allies, according to an international survey of public opinion published today that reveals just how far the country's reputation has fallen among former supporters since the invasion of Iraq.

Carried out as US voters prepare to go to the polls next week in an election dominated by the war, the research also shows that British voters see George Bush as a greater danger to world peace than either the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-il, or the Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Both countries were once cited by the US president as part of an "axis of evil", but it is Mr Bush who now alarms voters in countries with traditionally strong links to the US.

It's nice to know that the people can rise above the propaganda. I wonder if the rise of the internet has affected how people get their information. We've certainly come a long way from the days when "it was the Sun wot won it!"

Jews against zionism

There's been a bit of a ding-dong on the Just Peace list lately. It was over whether a campaign against the occupation could work with zionists, even Engageniks, in tow. I think the consensus was that it could happen with zionists but not Engageniks. Anyway, someone suggested that the list had been taken over by Jews against zionism (JAZ) so one of the moderators had to straighten the person out as they say in the mafia. If you can follow the thread from here you're a better person than me but I just wanted an excuse to post this pretty pic of our banner.

Perdition is back

The classic play the zionists tried to ban is showing soon in Scotland. See this from Lenni Brenner:

I'm going to Scotland, 1/21-27/07. The Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign is presenting performances of Perdition, a play by the late Jim Allen. He based his play on a chapter in my book, Zionism in the Age of the Dictators. Now I'll accompany it with lectures and documents.

In 1987, Cesarani and Martin Gilbert, another historian, were instrumental in getting London's Royal Court Upstairs theater to stop rehearsals of the play on the grounds that it was it was biased against Zionism, anti-Semitic, etc. Allen & I then debated Gilbert and a leader of the British Zionist movement on nationwide TV, after enormous publicity generated by the closing down of the play. Cesarani later admitted, in London's Jewish Chronicle, that the British public felt that the Zionists had deprived them of their right to see the play and make up their own minds about its merits. Subsequently the play was produced on several occasions with praise from important critics. And now Ken Loach, Perdition's director for Allen in 1987, has won the top film prize at Cannes.

Naturally I'll discuss Cesarani's role, then, and his present book which, among other things, deals with relations between Eichmann and Reszö Kasztner, the Zionist who Allen denounced as a collaborator. But I propose that Cesarani and I go further and debate the factual merits of Perdition and the larger question of Zionist/Nazi relations.

We could debate in Scotland or his home city, London, either during my stay in Scotland or immediately before or after 1/21-27. And we can look for a TV or radio show that will carry the event.

I'm an author making a proposal to a fellow author. We all want publicity for our books. If he accepts my challenge, win, lose or draw, the wide British public will know about Becoming Eichmann.

It took me a while to get my head around the dates. It's from 21st January 2007 to 27th January 2007. I might go up there for that. Lenni Brenner's certainly worth a listen to.... and a read of.

Freedom Theatre Appeal

Here's something Michael Rosen (aka Isakofsky) is guesting on soon. He made a comment about it here yesterday and I said I'd do a post on it last night but BT intervened and crashed for the night.

BRITISH SHALOM SALAAM TRUST

JENIN FREEDOM THEATRE APPEAL
THE FREEDOM THEATRE APPEAL

Fundraiser

'FOR COURAGE, FLAIR, EXCITEMENT AND PROMISE...THIS CHILDREN'S THEATRE IN JENIN CAN'T BE BEATEN' Alexei Sayle

ARNA'S CHILDREN THEATRE IN JENIN is rising again in Jenin's refugee camp: a haven for them to explore, play, learn and express theselves.

The Freedon Theatre, started in 1993, was founded from the Alternative Nobel Peace Prize Award to an Israeli teacher, Arna Mer Khamis, for her work with children in Jenin.

The original was destroyed in 2002 during the Israeli incursion into Jenin.

Since then, the needs of the children of Jenin have not diminished, and Arna's son Juliano, along with an international board of artists, writers and activists, re-opened the theatre on a temporay site in February 2006.

To establishs the theatre on a permanent basis the British Shalom-Salaam Trust (BSST) aims to raise at least £30,000 for this.

To help raise the funds needed BSST will present an afternoon of POERTY, MUSIC AND MAGIC at The Shaw Theatre.

Guest Performers include:

Mike Rosen (Poet)

Adrian Mitchell (Poet)

Kaye Umansky (Poet)

Ann Jungman (story teller)

Ian Saville (magician)

We would like to thank you in advance for your support of THE FREEDOM THEATRE

'There can be few theatrical enterprises in the world more inspiring or more necessary than The Freedom Theatre. I supprt it whole heartedly and with great admiration' Nicholas Hythner

IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A DONATION TO THE FREEDOM THEATRE APPEAL

MAKE CHQUES PAYABLE TO 'BSST'

BRITISH SHALOM SALAAM THRUST
PO BOX 46081
LONDON
W9 2ZF

PLEASE INDICATE WHETHER YOU ARE HAPPY FOR US TO TREAT YOUR DONATION AS 'GIFT AID' (No 1103211)

For further information email: bsst2004@yahoo.co.uk

Adults £12.00
Children £8.00

Even Engage is promoting this one.