Israeli artists up in arms over culture minister remarks
 

https://s.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/tY...1d5cf26e7d.jpgIsraeli artists and leading cultural figures gathered Sunday to try and consolidate an approach against Culture Minister Miri Regev's declared intent to withdraw support from institutes that "delegitimize" Israel, a move critics say would amount to censorship. Hundreds of cultural icons crammed into a performance venue in Jaffa, south of Tel Aviv, to discuss a joint response after Regev sparked a furore last week when she threatened to defund a theatre managed by an Arab Israeli if he refused to perform in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. The debate was also fired up by Education Minister Naftali Bennett's recent decision to overrule a professional committee and pull an Arab play from a state-funded educational programme.




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