Tunisian show canceled because actors are pro-Israel....

Gee, they actually found actors who are supportive of Israel...

A musical show scheduled for the Carthage International Festival has been called off after its actors sparked outrage on the internet for performing for Israelis. Selim Baccouche, actor and organizer of the musical ‘Nouraniet’, canceled his show after his co-actor, Tunisian performer Mohsen Cherif voiced support for Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a video posted on ‘Facebook’. "Long live Netanyahu! Long live Bibi!" Cherif shouted at the concert for Israelis of Tunisian origin, using Netanyahu's nickname. Festival organizers said the show had been canceled because Baccouche was "indisposed". A press conference was also called off.

Baccouche himself became the target of criticism after a video showed him and other Tunisian artists performing for Israelis at a concert during a pilgrimage to the Ghriba synagogue in Djerba. Thousands of internet users angrily demanded that the musical be canceled and some called for Cherif to be stripped of his Tunisian citizenship. Unions, including those representing musicians, condemned the "slur on national sentiment", calling it a "shameful act" for Tunisians, who are generally hostile toward Israel. Tunisia and Morocco are the only two Arab states with a sizeable Jewish community.

Baccouche defended the video and said he was only responding to demand from a public for whom "all Tunisian artists, without exception" perform each year. "Why this video appeared one week before my show...I do not understand it," he declared on the website ‘Kapitalis’.