Moonbats strike in force in Toronto: Artists protest Tel Aviv focus at Toronto film fest

Note that this is Tel Aviv we're talking about here. Not Ariel, or a Gush Katif retrospective, or even Jerusalem...Tel Aviv. (Oh, and note to Israeli hasbaraniks: stop announcing your stupid rebranding and PR efforts in the press. It sort of, you know, devalues them right from the start.)

Here's the "declaration" they all signed: The Toronto Declaration: No Celebration of Occupation (a snip):

This is, of course, absurd on several fronts. (In reverse order...) It's hardly any Israeli's fault, now or in the past, that they have chosen to build and succeed while Arabs have chosen eternal warfare instead. I don't think we need to dwell on that. This is the leftist mantra of 'success guilt' and there's no excuse for it. In any case, the film lineup does include films by Palestiinian Arab filmmakers. Jaffa is also well known as one of those locations where the Arabs weren't expelled, many left in fear and anticipation and under advice from the Arab Higher Committee. The fighting broke out when Tel Aviv was shelled from Jaffa and Jewish forces seized the city in return.

Finally, Tel Aviv was never built on the ruins of any Palestinian Arab villages. This possible refers to the mythical land of Tel Rabia which seems to have been a Hamas creation, or at least Hamas has been the one doing the most effective publicizing of the erstwhile Arab Atlantis. We first heard about it here out of the mouth of the grandfather of the now deceased Jew-hating mouse Farfour (Farfur): The Dead Mouse Speaks. Then it was Jew-eating giant Hamas rabbit Assud: First They Came for Farfur... Meet Hamas's Jew-Eating Rabbit (Update: Singing About the 'Zionist Filth'), and finally in a Hamas kids' puppet show: More Hamas Puppet Theater: Getting the Kids Ready to Expel Their Neighbors.

Which goes to show that the Tel Rabia myth is something ginned-up to get children to despise their neighbors and not complain when they're sent off to kill themselves in the name of reclaiming something they never had and didn't build. Good show to the artistes now lending their names to it. I suppose everyone sees what they want to. The Arabs see an excuse not to compromise, but I wonder what the film professionals see in their minds' eyes? Perhaps they figure Tel Rabia was some carbon-neutral wonderland, where actors and producers ruled as philosopher Kings over a multi-cultural polity that lived together in peace (except the Jews who very reasonably had to tend their neighbor's lawns for the privilege).

Most of the recognizable signatories (50 "prominent signatories" is more than a bit of an exageration) are flatly anti-Western idiot leftists, like Danny Glover, Jane Fonda, Eve Ensler, John Pilger, Alice Walker, Howard Zinn and Naomi Klein (who is reported as a signatory but whose name doesn't appear on the web list). Wallace Shawn say it ain't so. I'll never be able to watch The Princess Bride the same way again.

Ken Loach is the same guy who got the Edinburgh Film Festival to make fools of themselves, and now he's had a hand in doing the same thing in Toronto as the co-director of the festival has called Tel Aviv 'contested ground.' Tel Aviv isn't contested ground to anyone but those who want the Jewish State dismantled altogether.