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Last update - 15:03 05/09/2009
Report: Jane Fonda joins boycott of Toronto film festival over homage to Israel
By Haaretz Service
Tags: Israel News, Danny Glover 

Jane Fonda, Danny Glover and Eve Ensler have joined the growing list of artists who are boycotting the Toronto film festival over a program honoring Tel Aviv's 100th anniversary, gossip blogger Perez Hilton reported on Friday.

The three have added their names to a letter aimed at festival officials claiming that Tel Aviv was built on violence, ignoring the "suffering of thousands of former residents and descendants," Hilton reported.

Several Israeli films are being screened at the festival's new City to City event, which this year celebrates Tel Aviv's centennial.
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Culture critic Naomi Klein and director John Greyson are among those who had already announced their protest over the homage to Tel Aviv.

Two-time Oscar winner Rabbi Marvin Hier, who founded the Simon Wiesenthal Center, called the boycott "an attack on the heart and soul of Israel."

"People who support letters like this are people who do not support a two-state solution," he was quoted as saying on Hilton's blog.

"By calling into question the legitimacy of Tel Aviv, they are supporting a one-state solution, which means the destruction of the State of Israel. I applaud the organizers of the festival for celebrating on the 100th anniversary of Tel Aviv. If every city in the Middle East would be as culturally diverse, as open to freedom of expression as Tel Aviv is, then peace would long have come to the Middle East."

Fonda, 72, rose to fame as an actress in the 1960s, but has since become known for her political activism, including her opposition to the Vietnam and Iraq wars.

Glover, who is probably best known for co-starring with Mel Gibson in the four Lethal Weapon movies, has also been politically active since his student days. He made headlines in 2006 when he traveled to Venezuela with a group of celebrities to show solidarity with president Hugo Chavez.

Ensler, whose father is reportedly Jewish, is an American playwright and activist who wrote The Vagina Monologues.

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      1.   Jane Fonda 13:53  |  sorin 05/09/09
      2.   What else can one expect 14:03  |  Linichka 05/09/09
      3.   Rabbi Hier and the Museum of Tolerance built on Arab graves 14:03  |  Michael 05/09/09
      4.   #3 Michael, You must be joking 16:03  |  Murray of Montreal 05/09/09
      5.   Blessings on them 16:04  |  Eric 05/09/09
      6.   The protestors ignore from whom violence started & continues 16:06  |  Joe 05/09/09
      7.   All your states were not built on violence? 16:08  |  Gilad 05/09/09
      8.   who minds these three " has been"? 16:15  |  michel 05/09/09
      9.   "The ususal suspects" 16:17  |  Boris 05/09/09
      10.   Wake up Israel! 16:21  |  Haaretz Fan 05/09/09
      11.   jane fonda 16:27  |  flora 05/09/09
      12.   Fine 16:35  |  17 05/09/09
      13.   I have my own boycott . I have not watched Jane Fonda since I saw 16:45  |  Jack-miami 05/09/09
      14.   Morons 16:47  |  James 05/09/09
      15.   A Celebrity Mind, A Terrible Thing To Waste 16:57  |  Robert 05/09/09
      16.   boycott fonda 16:58  |  Observer 05/09/09
      17.   Oh dear, Jane Fonda et al, you`ve fudged it... 16:58  |  Esther 05/09/09
      18.   Nobody gonna miss those two here in tdot 17:02  |  Eli 05/09/09
      19.   Boycott of Toronto Film Festival 17:20  |  Cliff Taffet 05/09/09
      20.   And I will boycot Jane Fonda 17:24  |  AA 05/09/09
      21.   Film fest 17:35  |  Hanry 05/09/09
      22.   Propaganda 10:37  |  Max 05/09/09
      23.   Silly and Uninformed as Usual 17:48  |  Jane 05/09/09
      24.   TRAITOR Hanoi Jane needs all the publicity she can get 17:49  |  PETER SM 05/09/09
      25.   #17 Esther....Sorry, you are all lumped in 18:01  |  Lynn 05/09/09
      26.   REALITY CHECK 18:02  |  Marco 05/09/09
      27.   Socialist progressives, so needy 18:03  |  Lynn 05/09/09
      28.   #3 Michael....what drivel 18:06  |  Lynn 05/09/09
      29.   a joke a d ay keeps the miseries away 18:09  |  v hardman 05/09/09
      30.   Dear Jane 18:10  |  Ron 05/09/09
      31.   Will always be Red Jane! 18:12  |  MARK KLEIN, M.D. 05/09/09
      32.   #3Murray of Montreal, just so long as they are not Jewish bones? 18:18  |  Maureen Ann 05/09/09
      33.   Fonda and the racist left 18:22  |  jez 05/09/09
      34.   Hanoi Jane 18:25  |  Oded 05/09/09
      35.   Boycott of TO film festival very wrong.... 18:27  |  Smadar 05/09/09
      36.   Re 10 Who cares what others think 18:46  |  alan the real one 05/09/09
      37.   Toronto is spared a visit, Tel Aviv Chai! 18:46  |  Imperator 05/09/09
      38.   Boycott those who boycott Jews 19:11  |  Mark Jeffery Koch 05/09/09
      39.   Eve Ensler is a serious human rights activist 19:17  |  don`t write her off 05/09/09
      40.   Lynn 28 Are you calling Haaretz drivel? 19:18  |  Michael 05/09/09
      41.   Aussie Maureen 19:24  |  Rambo 05/09/09
      42.   Murray of Monterial # 4 19:25  |  Al 05/09/09
      43.   Needing the Spotlight 19:26  |  Bob 05/09/09
      44.   Freedom of Choice 19:44  |  Chris Linthwaite 05/09/09
      45.   And what do we learn from that....???? 19:46  |  Swiss (Dino) 05/09/09
      46.   "Tel Aviv was built on violence" (??) & the US was built on what? 19:47  |  ivo 05/09/09
      47.   Jane Fonda/Mrs Ted Turner - known antisemite 19:52  |  x-ray 05/09/09
      48.   I thought J. Fonda was a friend of the Jews 20:07  |  Steve 05/09/09
      49.   Tel Aviv founded on sand, not violence 20:18  |  Kobi 05/09/09
      50.   How many US cities 20:30  |  Jojo 05/09/09
      51.   Thats ok, I don`t celibrate the 4th of July because the Indians 20:32  |  Jew 05/09/09
      52.   jane fonda boycott of Toronto film festival 20:32  |  o hagen 05/09/09
      53.   this is just the beginning of something bigger 20:37  |  int. boycott 05/09/09
      54.   So they also want tel-aviv? 20:59  |  rafiq 05/09/09
      55.   Hollywood should be given back to the native americans 21:12  |  Yaron 05/09/09
      56.   Funny, really 21:16  |  Norwegian 05/09/09
      57.   # 7 gilad 21:28  |  Axel 05/09/09
      58.   Tel Aviv Has Madonna 21:30  |  leo 05/09/09
      59.   Naomi Klein 21:31  |  Sarah 05/09/09
      60.   Ha`aretz wrong about Fonda and VietNam 21:32  |  Joe Sittizen 05/09/09
      61.   Murray doesn`t know Israel! 21:33  |  Palestinian Brit 05/09/09
      62.   #39 If only you weren`t being facetious... 21:44  |  nancy reagan 05/09/09
      63.   jane dear....(fonda) 21:48  |  alan 05/09/09
      64.   Gilad # 7 22:09  |  Philippe 05/09/09
      65.   Smadar 22:14  |  Walid 05/09/09
      66.   infidels 22:20  |  alan 05/09/09
      67.   Hanoi Jane strikes again 22:21  |  Chaim Ben Kahan 05/09/09
      68.   Danny Glover and Mel Gibson good friends of Jews? 22:23  |  Baruch Gold 05/09/09
      69.   Danny Glover 22:24  |  Dan 05/09/09
      70.   Ask any Vietnam veteran about Jane Fonda. See what they say. 22:38  |  Bill Pearlman 05/09/09
      71.   Jane fonda was the US Tokyo Rose who caused US soldier deaths 22:41  |  bernard ross 05/09/09
      72.   Insentient Likudniks 23:29  |  Les Lyshkov 05/09/09
      73.   Kudos 23:51  |  Jack Kuper 05/09/09
      74.   murray 4 01:02  |  potobac 06/09/09
      75.   boycott 01:10  |  aagreiche 06/09/09
      76.   Jews were killed in Arab cities so lets boycott them too 01:12  |  EgyptJewRefugee 06/09/09
      77.   We support human rights as long as you agree with us 01:33  |  Dan 06/09/09
      78.   Don`t get me started on this Naomi Klein 01:39  |  Dan 06/09/09
      79.   Walid, fair enough, but then no films about Beirut either 01:49  |  Israeli 06/09/09
      80.   The racist rabbi is afraid of secular democracy and equality 01:58  |  peacelover 06/09/09
      81.   Tel Aviv 02:09  |  Saul Eisenstat 06/09/09
      82.   This Boycotters Are Decent People - and Hurt Palestinians really 04:54  |  soeasytomakefriends 06/09/09
      83.   Jane Fonda, Danny Glover & the rest 05:11  |  Christine 06/09/09
      84.   i`ll gloat again and again, because you don`t listen 05:16  |  VIPER 06/09/09
      85.   Bankrupt statements 05:35  |  Truth 06/09/09
      86.   Hail Fonda 05:39  |  Fallujah 06/09/09
      87.   If this was over the settlements, I`d understand, but Tel Aviv? 06:44  |  Aharon 06/09/09
      88.   TRUTH What 2 states? The one the Pals keep rejecting 07:30  |  PETER SM 06/09/09
      89.   Viper # 62 09:11  |  ChanahS 06/09/09
      90.   VIPER-#62-give back which land? 09:20  |  Daniel Leopold 06/09/09
      91.   #16 Observer another boycott!! 3rd try 10:11  |  maoriboy 06/09/09
      92.   Land of the free, home of the brave... 12:02  |  Joseph 06/09/09
      93.   Toronto 12:07  |  Motic 06/09/09
      94.   Edinburgh 12:11  |  Yossi 06/09/09
      95.   Israeli #69 12:34  |  Walid 06/09/09
      96.   to bad for j.fonda 15:17  |  herman 06/09/09
      97.   Jane Fonda was cheering the enemy 17:08  |  *BEN JABO 06/09/09
      98.   Without Jews There Would Be No Jane Fonda, Danny Glover etc. 17:12  |  Jane 06/09/09
      99.   Rabbi Hier - does iSrael support 2 States?!! 17:20  |  joe Cascio 06/09/09
      100.   Jane Fonda Criticism 17:35  |  Ami Daniel 06/09/09
      101.   Hey Jane ever read a history book? 17:37  |  Danite 06/09/09
      102.   @66 Les ,hats off to you 18:27  |  Welshman 06/09/09
      103.   95 comments thus far 18:31  |  Non relevant 06/09/09
      104.   #96 joe Cascio - I`ll answer your question 19:18  |  *BEN JABO 06/09/09
      105.   The JDL response 19:31  |  Meir Weinstein 06/09/09
      106.   Crucial omissions, Smadar, Walid, Israeli, Danite 20:19  |  sh 06/09/09
      107.   about Jane fonda`s position 20:27  |  clod 06/09/09
      108.   The Tel Aviv Ghetto 20:34  |  Eamonn 06/09/09
      109.   sh 21:16  |  Walid 06/09/09
      110.   who is afraid of jane fonda 22:48  |  ombudsman 06/09/09
      111.   Jane Fonda and others 23:49  |  Ethan Rubinstein 06/09/09
      112.   Bravo Jane 00:19  |  wahbi 07/09/09
      113.   # 34 Oded 00:23  |  maoriboy 07/09/09
      114.   Toronto Boycott 00:29  |  Rifraf 07/09/09
      115.   #98 Jane of Palm Beach 01:18  |  Chris Linthwaite 07/09/09
      116.   # Ben Jabo. America WAS the enemy! 02:13  |  Maureen Ann 07/09/09
      117.   another bankrupt lie from Peter SM 02:19  |  Truth 07/09/09
      118.   FALLUJAH when are you going to give back the billions you stole 02:25  |  PETER SM 07/09/09
      119.   The Coast from Jaffa to Caesarea was empty (Full of sh #104) 03:12  |  Steve of Mevasseret 07/09/09
      120.   IS THE SAME 03:49  |  TOBIA 07/09/09
      121.   #50 JOJO 03:51  |  PAL 07/09/09
      122.   violence 03:54  |  JOHN 07/09/09
      123.   Jane Fonda and boycotts 03:59  |  Slim Dan 07/09/09
      124.   Jane Fonda joins boycott of Toronto film festival over homage to 08:32  |  bill 07/09/09
      125.   fonda`s boycut 08:34  |  bill 07/09/09
      126.   TRUTH millions of Arabs into Israel is NOT 2 state solution 09:10  |  PETER SM 07/09/09
      127.   Boycotts 09:46  |  arieh zimmerman 07/09/09
      128.   Fonda, Glover, Ensler are ignorant 14:30  |  D Sharavi 07/09/09
      129.   Protest and boycott is the moral thing to do ... 21:11  |  John 07/09/09
      130.   One things I can say for Jane Fonda 02:18  |  *BEN JABO 08/09/09
      131.   One thing I`ll say for Jane 06:55  |  *BEN JABO 08/09/09
      132.   Remember the Indians 22:32  |  Anonymous 08/09/09
      133.   Boycott of TIFF over homage to Tel Aviv 23:41  |  Euge1 13/09/09
      134.   Murray of Montreal 02:59  |  Michelle 14/09/09
      135.   Jane 03:07  |  Michelle 14/09/09
      136.   Fonda 03:24  |  Michelle 14/09/09
      137.   Jane Fonda 03:37  |  Alan 14/09/09
      138.   jane fonda 16:39  |  Theresa Tova 15/10/09
      139.   Jane Fonda 03:57  |  So long Jane 02/11/09
      140.   Well done Jane, Danny and all the good people 11:29  |  Ben 22/11/09
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