Israel Asks Culture Institutions to Declare if They Hold Performances in Settlements

[Israeli]

Culture Minister Miri Regev begins implementing new criteria for funding cultural institutions.

Yair Ashkenazi Jun 15, 2016

Israeli cultural institutions received a form from the government on Monday asking them to state whether they had or hadn’t offered performances last year in the Negev, the Galilee or West Bank settlements.

The form was sent to theaters, orchestras and dance troupes by the Pilat company’s Center for Cultural Information and Research, which collects data from cultural institutions for the Culture and Sports Ministry.

The form is related to new funding criteria instituted by Culture and Sports Minister Miri Regev in April. Under these criteria, institutions that offer no performances in the settlements, the Negev or the Galilee will suffer a 33 percent cut in their government funding. Moreover, performances in the settlements will earn an institution a 10-percent bonus.

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Choreographer Noa Dar, founder and director of the eponymous dance group, said that being forced to state whether or not her troupe performed in these locales “is essentially a demand to tie my political opinions and my conscience to ministry funding. This is an anti-democratic act.

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[DetlefK]

1. Israel is creating a blacklist of "politically undesirable" artists. Degenerate art is back.

http://www.alternet.org/grayzone-project/degenerate-culture-inside-israeli-govts-persecution-jewish-left-and-one-its-most

[Israeli]

3. Natali Cohen......

.....is the fringe and seen by most Israeli's as a freak DetlefK......however ....
artist and sculptor Dani Karavan is another story ....although the message is the same

Citing 'Dictatorship,' Israeli Artist Wants His Work Removed From the Knesset

Dani Karavan, who designed the wall that serves as the backdrop to those addressing parliament, says he has repeatedly asked that his art be removed until the Knesset reflects 'the spirit of the Declaration of Independence.'

Shany Littman Jun 15, 2016

Artist and sculptor Dani Karavan, who in 1966 designed the wall that constitutes the backdrop for speakers in the Knesset chamber in Jerusalem said on Wednesday that he has repeatedly asked that the wall be removed or covered until the Knesset, in his view, reflects the spirit of the country's Declaration of Independence.

"There have been several works that I made that were commissioned for public spaces and they belong to the sites, to their landscapes, to their environment, to their role," he told the Herzliya Conference, but he added: "[When it comes to] the wall in the Knesset, I sometimes am ashamed that I made it, and I have asked a number of times that it be moved, or covered with a tapestry, until the Knesset expresses the Declaration of Independence."

In the course of his remarks, delivered as part of a panel discussion on political art, Karavan made reference to a report on Wednesday that Culture and Sports Minister Miri Regev is demanding that cultural institutions that receive government funding submit a declaration stating whether they have held performances in West Bank settlements, the Negev and the Galilee. The declaration requirement is an effort to implement the ministry's new policy of cutting financial support for institutions that do not perform in these areas.

"I read this morning in the newspaper that the Culture Minister is threatening anyone who doesn't appear in the settlements that they won't get funding. What is this if not a dictatorship?" he exclaimed.

read more: http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.725248

[Little Tich]

2. In America, you control government.

But in Israel, government is controlling you!