Despicable Israel Bullies Artists Into ‘Patriotism’

‘Israel’s far-right culture minister, Miri Regev, scored a significant victory last month in her self-declared war on the country’s cultural establishment.
Israel’s national theatre company Habima, it was revealed, had agreed to perform for the first time in Kiryat Arba, a notoriously violent settlement next to the Palestinian city of Hebron in the occupied West Bank.
The move was a blow to Israeli artists who oppose efforts by Benjamin Netanyahu’s government to force them to treat the settlements as a “normal” part of Israel, said Ala Hlehel, a writer and cultural critic from Israel’s large Palestinian minority.’
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