Israel lobby is pushing down 'antisemitic' art project in Vlissingen https://rightsforum.org/nieuws/israel-lobby-drukt-antisemitisch-kunstproject-vlissingen-kop/
As seen on October 29, 2018 [the original text is in Dutch ] In Vlissingen, an art project with kites was canceled after a violent campaign against the artists and the city council. Even the Israeli press reported on a non-existent pilot with a swastika. The affair offers insight into a common practice: solidarity with the Palestinians is punished mercilessly. The Vlissingse [ read Middelburgs – H.O. ] podium for contemporary art, spaceCAESUUR has had to break off its project 'Flying kites with CAESUUR'. The project was attacked on a broad front as being anti-Semitic and leaning on Nazi symbolism and terrorism. It is noteworthy that a local Vlissings art project creates so much commotion that even Israeli newspapers pay attention to it, and that social media advocates shouldering the organizers. On the other hand, it gives a familiar picture of what happens to people and organizations that show solidarity with the Palestinians. Almost standard they are victims of what appears to be coordinated actions to silence them. For that reason we go into the Vlissingen affair extensively. Silence before the storm The Vlissingse organization spaceCAESUUR was inspired by the use of kites by the residents of the Palestinian Gaza Strip for its art project, and emphasized on its website the various facets of it: In 2010, thousands of children in Gaza improved the Guinness Record Kite (kite flying record) that they had established in 2009. 7,202 Children and as many pilots participated in this event organized by UNRWA, the Palestinian refugee organization of the United Nations. In 2018, people in Gaza use kite flying as a cheerful political statement of protest, occasionally alternated with an attempt at actual resistance. The latter is again regarded by one of the best armed - including the nuclear weapon - countries in the world as an existential danger: kite terrorism. A concept that is lustfully propagated by the corporate media all over the world. Based on these insights, organizer and artist Hans Overvliet decided to use his project: kites as a carrier of works of art that denounce social issues - a naive form for powerful content. Twenty artists from five countries - the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Palestine and Pakistan - were invited to contribute with a socially engaged work. The project was not intended as a political statement for Palestine. The artists each chose their own perspective, including feminism and the manifest right-wing extremism. A number of them chose a Palestinian subject. The organization emphasized the high level of the submitted art works, coupled with their underlying motivation. Shoot in the legs It did not come about that. The wind was in fact immediately followed by the proverbial storm. Reason for the turbulence was a tweet from culture alderman Rens Reijnierse (50PLUS), who came to take a look at the planned departure of the pilots on Saturday: Kites on the beach. Beautiful autumn day in Vlissingen, no wind, so the kites do not fly. Project for Palestine succeeded.
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