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September 07, 2009
The Toronto Declaration
Another handy list arrives in the form of signatories to the anti-Semetic Toronto Declaration, a condemnation of the Toronto International Film Festival for this year's celebrity spotlight on Tel Aviv.
Producer, writer and director David Zucker ("Scary Movie," "Naked Gun," "Airplane!" ) denounced as "left-wing crazies" the individuals who signed a letter called " The Toronto Declaration" to protest Israeli government policies.
Mr. Zucker said he is "outraged" that actors such as Danny Glover and Jane Fonda, along with about 50 other activists, would sign a declaration that condemns Israel as an "apartheid regime" and dismisses the work of Tel Aviv filmmakers as "Israeli propaganda."
A small loss, admittedly, given the second raters, no hopers and academics making up most of the list. Still, I am disappointed to see Slavoj Zizek has signed on to this fatuous, evil protest against the only democracy in the Middle East. But then democracy and representative government, the right to freedom of expression, the right to freedom of religion and the rights of women are a small thing to these people when set against their radical pose.
Posted by Ghost of a flea at September 7, 2009 06:52 AM
