Thursday, November 26, 2009
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
Al Quds Underground: EU funds go to arts festival in Jerusalem that bars Israelis - 'Al-Quds Underground (AQU), a program which claims "to create a secret space for artistic expression," is funded by Cordaid (Holland, EU), the Anna Lindh Euro-Mediterranean Foundation for the Dialogue between Cultures, and SICA. The Anna Lindh Foundation received €7 million over three years from the EU, earmarked for projects such as Al Quds Underground. AQU’s website states that the group's vision is "[n]ot conflict and segregation, but contact and curiosity." In contrast, on October 30, 2009 the group refused to allow Israelis to attend one of its events...'
