GayandRight

My name is Fred and I am a gay conservative living in Ottawa. This blog supports limited government, the right of the State of Israel to live in peace and security, and tries to expose the threat to us all from cultural relativism, post-modernism, and radical Islam. I am also the founder of the Free Thinking Film Society in Ottawa (www.freethinkingfilms.com)

Thursday, September 07, 2006

They even go after Israeli architects....

Why don't they say anything about Palestinian terrorism?
A British architects' association is calling on the 10th International Architecture Biennale in Venice to consider keeping an Israeli pavilion from participating in this year's exhibition, which opens Sunday.

"We request that the Biennale Committee consider withdrawing the Israeli entry as being provocative and counterproductive to the aims of this Biennale, and particularly distasteful in the context of the aftermath of an ugly, unnecessary war and wanton destruction of neighboring Lebanon, and a continuing one-sided war in Gaza," the group Architects and Planners for Justice in Palestine wrote in a petition to exhibition organizers.

The British organization also requested a contribution from the Palestinians, saying: "Whatever you do about the Israeli participation, we would like the organizers to consider asking for a Palestinian contribution, highlighting the historic and ongoing displacement of the Palestinian people."

Meanwhile, the Palestinian Society of Architects has sent a similar letter to Biennale organizers, asking for the cancellation of the Israeli display. One of the reasons the group cites is that Israeli architects are "fully engaged" in a "system of oppression and control."

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