Comments on: TRYING TO KEEP UP WITH FALSE RUMORS

By: Jane

Jane — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 01:34:39 +0000

I will look into this. This is the first time I have ever heard such things.

By: maik

maik — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 22:52:20 +0000

how do you rationalise this admirable position and your emplpoyment with L’Oreal _ a company that finances miliotary research in Israel and operates a factory built on land that was ethnically cleansed of Palestinians in 1952 (a year when there were no wars and no excuse for driving these people from their homes)
speak up Jane _ you can’t have your cake and eat it too _ you’re being given achance to respond before i release a movie about your involvement with this war-mongering international company _ and believe me that’s just the first step _
remember what it’s like to be on the ground 24/7 activist (as opposed to being a guest speaker)
well that’s what’s coming for you right now _
explain how/why you are ignorant of the actions of a company you profess to love so much

By: Shahed K

Shahed K — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 04:11:43 +0000

Thank you so much Jane Fonda for telling the truth! I’m late commenting this but I want you to know how thankful I am that you are talking about this. Rarely do any celebrities or even newscasters speak out against the crimes Israel commits. I am a Palestinian and watching the years go by with various tragedies in Palestine I wonder if anyone over here in US knows about what is going on; it feels as if the world has forgotten about us.

Thank You,

Shahed K.

By: Typical

Typical — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 12:51:53 +0000

It’s very sad that Israel is the only country singled out for boycotts and this kind of abuse.

Consider the situation in Zimbabwe, Iran or Burma. Where are you all then?

By: Michael H Ballard

Michael H Ballard — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 23:22:44 +0000

Hello Miss Fonda

I do enjoy your deep, active engagement in life.
Wishing you continued peace, health and happiness.

I trust you enjoyed Toronto while you where here.

Michael

By: Dr. E. Ben-Sefer

Dr. E. Ben-Sefer — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:58:12 +0000

So thrilled you have so many Jewish friends and so concerned about Israel and support the Peace movement. By the way, are you planning on protesting films produced by Palestinian Arabs at a film festival too? Equal opportunity, after all. and we know you support that concept. What about their Peace movement? The only movement we saw in Israel were rockets flying at civilians.
Let me remind you Ms. Fonda, you are an accomplished performer, that does not give you any credibility in politics. On the contrary, your history is full of regrets for stupid actions with regard to politics, let’s not bring them all up here. You might be best advised to do what you know how to do well, sell exercise tapes, tout face creams, get an acting gig if you can and let people use their intelligence to make decisions instead of indulge in covert censorship that you call artistic protest. Artistic my foot.
Try fixing up the mess in the US first, you certainly have enough to choose from there.
Dr. Ben-Sefer

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» 00 Expanding the Narrative UVPress – blog & class environment — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:11:25 +0000

[...] In fact, many signatories are attending the festival and have films showing there. As I said in my recent blog, the greatest “re-branding” of Israel would be to celebrate that country’s long [...]

By: Allan

Allan — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 02:15:16 +0000

Using this same logic you could argue that a festival dedicated to showing films about LA, while US troops are engaged in the occupation of Iraq is a whitewash too

There is more to Israel than war. There are people going on with their lives and movies being made. If you demanded a similar action against any festival focusing on say New York or London filmmakers, you would not be accused of bigotry.

By: stevieb

stevieb — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 23:25:15 +0000

David – what “daily violence” by Hamas are you talking about? That’s rubbish. They are legally resisting an illegal and brutal occupation. Thats why we who protest against Israel don’t say anything about Hamas. That and they don’t have anywhere near the capability of Israel.

Israel has kidnapped thousands of Palestinians – thousands of them held without charge in many cases.
Lebanese, too. That’s why we don’t talk about one Israeli soldier held by Hamas.

There was a major outcry in the mainstream media about the Netanyahu protest, so you don’t have your facts right, unfortunately. Thats why we don’t talk about that.

The reason we’re protesting a celebration of Tel Aviv is the same reason we protested apartheid South Africa. Because the situation in South Africa was grossly unjust, brutal and violent and violated everything civilized and decent people stand for. Much the same way Israel’s theft of Palestinian land and the slaughter of innocent people violates basic human values.

So this is not the time to be celebrating anything Israel until it stops it’s brutal, underhanded behavior and starts to negotiate in good faith with the Palestinians.

Thanks Dave….

By: Fonda Vanessa

Fonda Vanessa — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 20:33:00 +0000

[...] I said in my recent blog, the greatest "re-branding" of Israel would be to celebrate that country’s long [...]