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August 28, 2006
Movie director, Jew hater
Another Hollywood denizen opens his mouth and gives voice to the anti-semite within.
British director Ken Loach has expressed support for a boycott on Israeli cultural institutions, giving the Palestinian figures behind the drive a significant boost.
Loach, who won the Palme d'Or at Cannes Film Festival three months ago for his film about the Irish war of independence, The Wind the Shakes the Barley, has announced his support for the appeal to boycott Israeli institutions and even said that he urges others to do the same.
"Palestinians are driven to call for this boycott after forty years of the occupation of their land, destruction of their homes and the kidnapping and murder of their civilians," said Loach in a statement.
"They have no immediate hope that this oppression will end. As British citizens we have to acknowledge our own responsibility. We must condemn the British and U.S. governments for supporting and arming Israel."
Loach, who directed such well-regarded films as Kes, Riff-Raff, and Carla's Song, also attacked his own government.
"We must also oppose the terrorist activities of the British and U.S. governments in pursuing their illegal wars and occupations," he said.
"It is impossible to ignore the appeals of Palestinian comrades," he concluded, adding that, "I would decline any invitation to the Haifa Film Festival or other such occasions."
Loach had received an invitation from the Haifa Film Festival in recent weeks. The director
The statement by Loach indicates that he is joining the ranks of international film festivals that have cancelled the participation of Israeli filmmakers, in the wake of IDF recent activity in Lebanon and Gaza.
The Lussas Documentary Film Festival in France was scheduled to devote a category this year to Israeli documentary cinema, but cancelled screenings of several of the films, following the outbreak of the fighting.
Shameful. Ignorant, hateful and apalling.
How dare those Jews Israelis defend themselves.
Here's the best part. Loach is an unrepentant Socialist/Communist.
Would you care to join me in a small wager? Want to bet on whether he's ever condemned the millions of innocent Russians killed by Stalin? The Cambodians slaughtered in the Killing Fields by the Communist Khmer Rouge? The millions of Chinese murdered in the "People's" Republic of China?
Save your money.
Loach's moral outrage is saved for the perfidious and eternal Jew.
And still he finds employment, his rank anti-semitism a badge of honor.
It's 1938 all over again.
Posted by Mike Lief at August 28, 2006 08:36 AM
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