We have received this message from the co-chair of the Camden branch of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign:
Dear Mr Lebrecht
Even among current propaganda and misinformation, this is a malicious lie. Barclays is a bank. It has no ‘complicity’ in anything other than business. In any event, none of its alleged interest has any connection with its sponsorship of London’s most intensive ballet venue.
As for genocide whatever one thinks of Israeli actions in Gaza, there has been no genocide. The population has suffered greatly and estimates of deaths range from 11,000 to 40,000, a proportion of whom were armed Hamas operatives. General estimates put the Gaza population between 500,000 and 2 million.
This is not genocide, by any definition. Some international bodies have accused Israel of plotting genocide, but that is by no means the same thing.
What we have here is a malign attempt to destroy the arts in Britain and other countries by means of a well-organised, well-funded PSC which cares nothing for art and even less for truth. Everyone is entitled to an independent view on Israel-Palestine, but the PSC is out to destroy art at any cost.
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.jpg?w=160&resize=160,160&ssl=1 "The Trial of Dhegdheer: a Somali folktale is the inspiration for a new community opera bringing together communities of Butetown & Grangetown in Cardiff")
