Thursday, March 3, 2011

How is it worse that Beyonce and Maraiah Carey "entertain" Qaddaffi than Madonna and Rihanna touring apartheid Israel?

Is entertaining dictators worse than normalizing apartheid? / Nada Elia and Laurie King
EI 3 Mar -- ...Those of us who have long been engaged in Palestine justice activism cannot help but notice glaring double-standards in these denunciations of the various deals with devils. And at this critical point in the history of the Arab world, we must request that our readers begin to "connect the dots" throughout the region. Is entertaining dictators a lesser crime than normalizing Israeli apartheid? Why hold artists accountable for performing at the behest of tyrants, and let them off the hook for whitewashing Israel's regime which engages in massive human rights abuses, all subsidized by the United States government?
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