May 31, 2012

#BDS: Press Release from BIN and BRICUP: Pro-Palestinian Protesters thwart draconian security at Globe Theatre #UK

"Press Release from
BIN - Boycott Israel Network
and BRICUP - British Committee for the Universities of Palestine
    
PRO-PALESTINIAN PROTESTERS THWART DRACONIAN SECURITY AT ISRAELI
STATE THEATRE PERFORMANCE, GLOBE THEATRE
    
* Shakespeare's Globe in security lockdown to defend
        Israeli National Theatre
* Repeated interruptions
* Israeli Embassy orchestrates propaganda campaign against
        growing support for cultural boycott
    
Despite unprecedented security at Shakespeare's Globe for
Monday's performance by Israeli National Theatre, Habima,
pro-Palestinian campaigners succeeded in unfurling a banner
and staging a mute protest against illegal colonisation and
settlement. Protesters were manhandled by security staff out
of the theatre on London's Bankside, where Habima - which
entertains colonists illegally settled on Palestinian land -
was performing the Merchant of Venice in Hebrew as part of
the Cultural Olympiad."

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