I'll never understand why any criticism of Israel is automatically taken as racism by some. I have Jewish friends who don't like the apartheid happening in Palestine any more than I do. I don't see that the problems that you point out concerning racist attitudes around the world have anything to do with the discussion of Israel's policy in Palestine. As far as corporate sponsored art the call didn't state that it had anything to do with making accusations toward Jews controlling the art market. Perhaps they want to make a connection between media bias toward Israel's policy in Palestine and to see if that bias extends beyond the popular culture of news media to fine art culture. To demonstrate that there is bias in the media and government and art institutions is not to be racist. I abhor U.S. foriegn policy. We have military bases in over a hundred countries and our commanders (and vast majority of army) are Christian. Seemingly, with this logic - I must be a Christian hater because I criticize U.S. foreign policy and recognize media bias toward supporting this policy.
i feel that the tone of this is coming awfully close to the old scapegoat re. a jew or jews control the govt, the media, the banks, the world etc. after reading an study yesterday that said 30% of europeans blame jews for the current global financial crisis, careful please. there was also a very large percentage of chinese that felt jews want to control the world. i don't see what a corporate presence in art has to do with this at all unless this is the latest scapegoat technique. WE ARE LOOKING FOR ARTISTS & WRITERS TO CONTRIBUTE TO A 'FREE SCHOOL' MAGAZINE WORK SHOULD RELATE TO THE RECENT ATTACKS IN GAZA, THE OCCUPATION OF PALESTINE, MEDIA BIAS, THE CORPORATE SPONSORSHIP OF ART, BLOOMBERG, ART AS A SPECULATIVE COMMODITY, ART & PROTEST, AND OTHER ASSOCIATED OR RELEVANT SUBJECTS. THE MAGAZINE WILL BE LAUNCHED ON 6 MARCH OUTSIDE ARTFUTURES AT BLOOMBERG SPACE. CONTRIBUTIONS SHOULD BE B&W TO FIT A4 SIZE, AND SENT TO THE FOLLOWING EMAIL ADDRESS: [email protected] DEADLINE 1 MARCH. PLEASE FORWARD THIS ON TO ANYONE WHO MAY BE INTERESTED Thanks, Free School. http://digitalaardvarks.blogspot.com
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