Comments on: Email exchanges between Ken Loach, Paul Laverty, Rebecca O’Brien and the Melbourne Film Festival organizers

By: Censorship has no place in film | Richard Hartley

Censorship has no place in film | Richard Hartley — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 23:54:23 +0000

[...] our programme by the English filmmaker Ken Loach. While the Chinese wanted to silence Kadeer, Ken Loach demanded that we refuse any cultural sponsorship from Israel.The Israeli state has been a sponsor of the [...]

By: Occupied with free speech « Real Film Career Forum for What I Really Want to Do

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 15:09:12 +0000

[...] the other hand, the “left-wing filmmaker” was Ken Loach, whose series of written exchanges questioned MIFF’s decision to accept funding from “cultural partner”, the state [...]

By: Israel, film festivals and the BDS « Overland literary journal

Israel, film festivals and the BDS « Overland literary journal — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 06:22:48 +0000

[...] the other hand, the "left-wing filmmaker" was Ken Loach, whose series of written exchanges questioned MIFF's decision to accept funding from "cultural partner", the state of Israel. Loach [...]

By: Email exchanges between Ken Loach, Paul Laverty, Rebecca O’Brien and the Melbourne Film Festival organizers « U.S. Campaign for the Academic & Cultural Boycott of Israel

Tue, 28 Jul 2009 17:40:58 +0000

[...] As you may have heard by now, British film legend Ken Loach has pulled out of the Melbourne Film Fes…Recall that earlier Ken Loach had drawn hysterical responses from the media when he pressured the Edinburgh Film Festival to return the funding they had received from the Israeli embassy. [...]

By: Asa

Asa — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 11:38:28 +0000

Thanks for this. Excellent news.

“But the cultural boycott called for by the Palestinians means that remaining sympathetic but detached observers is no longer an option. You either support the boycott or break it.”

This is spot on really. The non-argument that Zionists often make against boycott is that “why don’t you boycott British goods then?”. Actually, if the Afghans themselves called for a BDS campaign against Britain I would!