Flanders Festival Ghent says it made decision over lack of ‘clarity’ about incoming conductor Lahav Shani’s views.

Flanders Festival Ghent says it made decision over lack of ‘clarity’ about incoming conductor Lahav Shani’s views.

While Shani had spoken in favour of “peace and reconciliation” in the past, his attitude towards the “genocidal regime in Tel Aviv” was unclear given his role as the chief conductor of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, the festival organisers said.

    • BlackRoseAmongThorns@slrpnk.netEnglish
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      1 day ago

      i said maybe, not every Israeli is responsible for their fascist state, but shit, a lot of them are, even the liberals who always were just fascists and now have no problem with the genocide in Gaza.

      I would know, i have to interact with them every day.

      I never had any power or representation though, and was always against all of this even if I’m not really active, always concerned with survival and escape, so i don’t think a person like myself is responsible, I’m not gonna point a finger at any powerless person that has to look at this shit from the inside.

      So yeah, maybe, it depends.

    • x00z@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 days ago

      I have talked with a handful of Israelis and all of them are heartless racists that support the genocide.

      I think the good Israelis are only a few percent.

      • BlackRoseAmongThorns@slrpnk.netEnglish
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        1 day ago

        Sadly true, as an Israeli, i don’t know many any others besides my partner that see the genocide for what it is, the situation feels very hopeless

        • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          1 day ago

          My ex-girlfriend was American and half-Jewish (on her father’s side), thoroughly non-religious and very liberal. But after high school she spent a summer in Israel on kibbutz and somehow it made her completely insane on the subject of the Palestinians. She talked about how they needed to be exterminated and that Israel was completely right in what they were doing (and this was the '90s). If I tried to argue with her she insisted that I couldn’t understand since I’d never been to Israel. It was like talking to someone possessed by a demon.

          • BlackRoseAmongThorns@slrpnk.netEnglish
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            1 day ago

            I’m sorry you had to go through something like that, i can only say I’m vaguely familiar with the feeling of seeing this from someone as close as a significant other.

            Hope you’ll find someone new you’ll see eye to eye with.

    • Tryenjer@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 days ago

      Even the Russians are held accountable for their government and they don’t have fair elections.