<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/a576f82b-c89c-4837-a00f-5134ae542cbf/9DF77F8E-2C0C-4490-9267-E380AD47234C/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://my.nowpublic.com/world/media-figures-boycott-toronto-film-festival" href="http://my.nowpublic.com/world/media-figures-boycott-toronto-film-festival" style="font-size: 11px;">my.nowpublic.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://my.nowpublic.com/world/media-figures-boycott-toronto-film-festival"><H1 class="story-detail-title flagging-1"><SPAN title="Recommend"></SPAN><IMG src="http://static.nowpublic.net/graphics/sites/all/themes/nova/default/images/1px.gif" class="icon-03-good-stuff icon-va-bottom" /> Media Figures Boycott Toronto Film Festival</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://my.nowpublic.com/world/media-figures-boycott-toronto-film-festival"><P>Actors such as Jane Fonda, Danny Glover, and writers such as Alice Walker and Naomi Klein are denouncing the Toronto International Film Festival for spotlighting filmmakers from Tel Aviv and Israeli culture. On Aug. 27, Canadian filmmaker John Greyson announced that he was withdrawing his film from the festival in protest of Israel's assault on Gaza earlier this year. Since then, dozens of others have joined Mr. Greyson in his protest. <BR /></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://my.nowpublic.com/world/media-figures-boycott-toronto-film-festival">"Looking at modern, sophisticated Tel Aviv without also considering the city's past and the realities of Israeli occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza strip would be like rhapsodizing about the beauty and elegant lifestyles in white-only Cape Town or Johannesburg during apartheid without acknowledging the corresponding black townships of Khayelitsha and Soweto." The letter also accuses the festival of being influenced by the Israeli government in an effort to sanitize Israel's military and political history. </blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/9DF77F8E-2C0C-4490-9267-E380AD47234C/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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