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Invito chi si stracciava le vesti in nome della "liberta' di parola" a
usare la propria liberta per dire qualche parola sui casi sotto.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article12299.htm
The erosion of free speech
It was the wrong sort of courage and she was defending the freedom of
the wrong people
By Robert Fisk
03/11/06 "The Independent" -- -- You've got to fight. It's the only
conclusion I can draw as I see the renewed erosion of our freedom to
discuss the Middle East. The most recent example - and the most
shameful - is the cowardly decision of the New York Theatre Workshop to
cancel the Royal Court's splendid production of My Name Is Rachel
Corrie.
It's the story - in her own words and emails - of the brave young
American woman who travelled to Gaza to protect innocent Palestinians
and who stood in front of an Israeli bulldozer in an attempt to prevent
the driver from destroying a Palestinian home. The bulldozer drove over
her and then reversed and crushed her a second time. "My back is
broken," she said before she died.
An American heroine, Rachel earned no brownie points from the Bush
administration which bangs on about courage and freedom from oppression
every few minutes. Rachel's was the wrong sort of courage and she was
defending the freedom of the wrong people. But when I read that James
Nicola, the New York Theatre Workshop's "artistic director" - his title
really should be in quotation marks - had decided to "postpone" the
play "indefinitely" because (reader, hold your breath) "in our
pre-production planning and our talking around and listening in our
communities (sic) in New York, what we heard was that after Ariel
Sharon's illness and the election of Hamas. ... we had a very edgy
situation", I didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
So let's confront this tomfoolery. Down in Australia, my old mate
Antony Loewenstein, a journalist and academic, is having an equally
vile time. He has completed a critical book on the Israel/Palestine
conflict for Melbourne University Publishing and Jewish communities in
Australia are trying to have it censored out of existence before it
appears in August. Last year, Federal Labour MP Michael Danby, who like
Loewenstein is Jewish, wrote a letter to the Australian Jewish News
demanding that Loewenstein's publishers should "drop this whole
disgusting project". The book, he said, would be "an attack on the
mainstream Australian Jewish community".
Now the powerful New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies has weighed
in against Loewenstein and efforts are under way to deprive him of his
place on the board of Macquarie University's Centre for Middle East and
North African Studies.
A one-off bit of skulduggery on Israel's behalf? Alas, no. A letter
arrived for me last week from Israeli-American Barbara Goldscheider
whose novel "Naqba: The Catastrophe: The Palestinian-Israeli Conflict"
has just been published. She has been attacked, she told me, "merely
because I chose an Arabic title to my novel on the conflict... My
brother-in-law has broken his relationship with me before he even read
the book ... From members of my 'Orthodox' Jewish congregation in
Bangor (Maine), I received a phone call from an irate 'friend'
sputtering ... out: 'Don't you know the Arabs want to destroy Israel?'"
A talk on her new novel scheduled to take place last month at a
conservative synagogue was cancelled "due to the uproar about my
novel". A Boston professor has mercifully written to Goldscheider with
what I regard as bloody good advice. "There's a vicious campaign out
there," he said. "Don't cave in."
But what do you do when a publisher - or an "artistic director" - caves
in? I found out for myself not long ago when the Military History
Society of Ireland asked permission to reprint a paper I had published
some years ago on a battle between the Irish Army's UN battalion in
southern Lebanon and Israel's proxy - and brutal - Lebanese militia,
the so-called "South Lebanon Army", whose psychotic commander was a
cashiered Lebanese army major called Saad Haddad.
In the paper, I mentioned how an Israeli major called Haim extorted
money from the inhabitants of the south Lebanese village of Haris and
gave the code name of an Israeli agent - "Abu Shawki" - who was present
at the murder of two Irish soldiers.
I had published these details many times, both in my own newspaper and
in my previous book on the Lebanon war, Pity the Nation. Major Haddad
died of cancer more than 10 years ago. I actually met Haim in the early
1980s as he emerged from a meeting with the mayor of Haris from whom he
demanded money to pay Israel's cruel militiamen - the UN was also
present and recorded his threats - while "Abu Shawki", whom the Irish
police would like to interview, later tried to arrest me in Tyre - and
immediately freed me - when I told him I knew that he was a witness to
the murder of the two Irish soldiers.
So what was I supposed to do when I received the following letter from
ex-Brigadier General Patrick Purcell of the Irish Army? "Unfortunately
we have been forced to withdraw (your) article in view of a letter from
our publisher Irish Academic Press. It is clear from our contract that
(our) Society would be responsible in the event of a libel action." The
enclosed letter from publisher Frank Cass advised that his lawyer had
"cautioned" him because I had described Haddad as "psychotic", named
the blackmailing Israeli major and named the Israeli agent present at
the two murders.
It's interesting that Mr Cass's lawyer believes it is possible to libel
a man (Haddad) who has been dead for more than a decade, even more so
that he should think that publishing a military code name would prompt
this rascal to expose his real identity in a court of law. As for Major
Haim, he remains on UN files as the man who tried - and apparently
succeeded - in forcing the people of southern Lebanon to cough up the
cash to pay for their own oppressors.
And the moral of all this? Well obviously, don't contribute articles to
the Military History Society of Ireland. But more to the point, I
better remember what I wrote in this newspaper just over six years ago,
that "the degree of abuse and outright threats now being directed at
anyone ... who dares to criticise Israel ... is fast reaching
McCarthyite proportions. The attempt to force the media to obey
Israel's rules is ... international". And growing, I should now add.

usare la propria liberta per dire qualche parola sui casi sotto.
Semplice: ognuno ha diritto di esprimere la propria opinione e gli
editori/proprietari hanno diritto di decidere cosa
pubblicare/rappresentare in un teatro.
O tu vuoi negare simili diritti, caro *FESSO* di un Torrieri? :)
-Stefano


Vero,del resto il bue e l'asino non riescono a trovare un editore che
li pubblichi <g>!

li pubblichi <g>!
Invece per le tue stronzate hai trovato qualcuno che te le pubblichi,
caro Massimino? :)
*LOL*
-Stefano

 Massimo1 wrote:

pensavo di utilizzare la tua casa editrice ,visto che è interessata a
certo materiale <g>

>*LOL*
C.V.D. :)
*ROTFL*
-Stefano