{"id":46938,"date":"2016-09-27T15:55:29","date_gmt":"2016-09-27T13:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=46938"},"modified":"2016-09-27T15:58:28","modified_gmt":"2016-09-27T13:58:28","slug":"israel-fumes-over-norwegian-theater-boycott-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=46938","title":{"rendered":"Israel fumes over Norwegian theater boycott video"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"The Times of Israel\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.timesofisrael.com\/images\/thetimesofisrael-529x60.png\" alt=\"The Times of Israel\" width=\"35%\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #000080;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #000080; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/israel-fumes-over-norwegian-theater-boycott-video\/\" target=\"_blank\">Israel fumes over Norwegian theater boycott video<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong> Times of Israel staff<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"height: 15px; background: #d0e6fa; width: 710px;\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Artists release clip falsely claiming to be by Norway\u2019s National Theater, in which it says it\u2019s terminating cooperation with its Israeli counterpart over \u2018apartheid\u2019<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cdn.timesofisrael.com\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Screen-Shot-2016-09-24-at-7.16.49-PM.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-large wp-post-image\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.timesofisrael.com\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Screen-Shot-2016-09-24-at-7.16.49-PM.png\" alt=\"Pia Maria Roll in a video staged to appear like a Norway National Theater statement boycotting cooperation with Israel's Habima, uploaded September 22, 2016. (screen capture: YouTube)\" width=\"100%\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Pia Maria Roll in a video staged to appear like a Norway National Theater statement boycotting cooperation with Israel&#8217;s Habima, uploaded September 22, 2016. (screen capture: YouTube)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Israeli diplomats on Saturday fumed over a video posing as an official statement by the Norwegian National Theater, that calls for a cultural boycott of Israel\u2019s National Theater, Habima.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The short clip, which was uploaded to YouTube Thursday after being aired at the biennial International Ibsen Festival in Oslo, shows an actress posing as the national theater\u2019s spokeswoman. In it she calls for a boycott of Habima.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The actress in the film, Pia Maria Roll, says the theater would like to \u201cpublicly apologize for our shameful collaboration with Habima, the national theater of Israel,\u201d adding that the cooperation served in \u201cnormalizing the Israeli occupation.\u201d She called Israel a state \u201cbased on ethnic cleansing, racism, occupation and apartheid,\u201d and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict \u201ccolonial\u201d \u2014 \u201cit\u2019s not some passionate feud between the Montagues and Capulets.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The film said the theater would join the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS), and concluded with \u201cFree Palestine and long live the national theater of Norway.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Norwegian news site Vartoland said Roll and fellow actor Marius von der Fehr were behind the film, which expressed their opinion. Roll said their intention was to trick people into thinking the statement was made by the theater.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"content\" class=\" content-alignment&lt;br \/&gt;&lt;br \/&gt; \">\n<div id=\"watch-description\" class=\"yt-uix-button-panel\">\n<div id=\"watch-description-text\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Bh8XajrrSVc\" width=\"680\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Norway\u2019s National Theater said in a statement on its website that the film didn\u2019t represent the institution\u2019s policies and that it believes in cooperation with various nations abroad. It stopped short of condemning the video, calling it an expression of free speech.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Habima\u2019s director said the film was made \u201cbehind the back of the administration\u201d and that the national theater \u201cguaranteed us that they would send a letter of clarification to me that [the message] broadcast in the film is not the stance of the theater.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Israel\u2019s Foreign Ministry, however, said the video was reminiscent of \u201cthe sick brainchild of [Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph] Goebbels\u2019 propaganda, the Nazi filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl, and the Norwegian collaborators [Vidkun] Quisling and [Knut] Hamson.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">\u201cThe State of Israel demands that the Norwegian National Theater, in whose name the libelous remarks are made, clearly and immediately denounce the film and act to remove it from every website and network,\u201d the Foreign Ministry said in a statement to Ynet. The ministry said it would also take steps to remove the film from the internet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">As of the time of publication the video still appeared on YouTube.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The Norwegian Embassy in Israel also issued a statement in response to the film, saying Oslo \u201cfirmly opposes boycott.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"height: 15px; background: #d0e6fa; width: 710px;\" \/>\n<div id=\"content\" class=\" content-alignment&lt;br \/&gt;&lt;br \/&gt; \">\n<div id=\"watch-description\" class=\"yt-uix-button-panel\">\n<div id=\"watch-description-text\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\"> twoje uwagi, linki, wlasne artykuly, lub wiadomosci przeslij do: <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #000080; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"mailto:webmaster@reunion68.com\">webmaster@reunion68.com<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr style=\"width: 710px;\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israel fumes over Norwegian theater boycott video Times of Israel staff Artists release clip falsely claiming to be by Norway\u2019s National Theater, in which it says it\u2019s terminating cooperation with its Israeli counterpart over \u2018apartheid\u2019 Pia Maria Roll in a video staged to appear like a Norway National Theater statement boycotting cooperation with Israel&#8217;s Habima, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[26,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46938"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46938"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46940,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46938\/revisions\/46940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}