SOUTH AFRICANS TO BOYCOTT THE CAPE TOWN OPRA COMPANY FOR PERFORMING IN THE ZIO=NAZI STATE

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PSG calls for South Africans to boycott the Cape Town Opera Company for refusing to reconsider their performance in Israel

On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 Steve Zeltzer <[email protected]> wrote:

PSG Opposes Cape Town Opera’s Singing of praise to Israel

  

29 October 2010

PRESS RELEASE:

PSG Opposes Cape Town Opera’s Singing of praise to Israel

The Cape Town Opera has chosen to go ahead with its controversial singing assignment in Tel Aviv, Israel in defiance of calls by international and local organisations as well as prominent individuals such as Nobel prize-winner, Anglican Archbishop Emeritus, Desmond Tutu. This act of defiance to the global boycott and disinvestment call against Israel is effectively an endorsement by Cape Town Opera to the ongoing violent oppression of Palestinians by the Israeli colonial settler regime.

The barbaric acts of the Israeli government and its settler supporters has included murder, imprisonment without trial, torture, bombings of Palestinian communities killing hundreds and illegally invading a ship and murdering its passengers in the recent Gaza flotilla catastrophe.  Palestinians face the daily humiliation of highly controlled movement under the abusive supervision of the Israeli Defence Force and racial discrimination in every sphere of life.    

It is no wonder that visitors to Palestinian areas under Israeli domination, most notably Archbishop Desmond Tutu, have described conditions for the people there as much worse than what black people experienced under Apartheid. It is therefore entirely appropriate that the Archbishop, now speaking from a free South Africa, should call on a South African company to reciprocate the international solidarity shown us by shunning Israel, for as long as it continues contemptuously to flout international law by its illegal and unconscionable occupation of Palestine and the daily oppression of Palestinians.

The Cape Opera Company’s rejection of Tutu’s call reveals that business interests have probably placed the company beyond reason and morality and selling its soul for the proverbial “30 pieces of silver”.

The Palestine Solidarity Group (PSG), a non-sectarian collection of Muslims, Jews, Christians and those of no faith, therefore calls upon the people of the Cape and all South Africans to show our revulsion over the Cape Opera Company’s behaviour by boycotting all home performances of the Company and voicing our objections. 

 

We make this call not only because, as South Africans, we expected and received international solidarity during our dark days but because our tax money almost certainly goes towards supporting a company that has no qualms about besmirching the good name of all South Africans who are committed to democracy, freedom and equality. We also call on the City of Cape Town and Western

Cape governments to withdraw and cancel all future subsidies to the Cape Town Opera.

  

 

For more information contact:

Mercia Andrews 0823683429

Martin Jansen 0828702025

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