ALGEMEINER
Israel Should Not Fund Its Own Defamation
by Carol Greenwald
February 7, 2016

Citizens Opposed to Propaganda Masquerading as Art (COPMA) applauds Israeli MK Miri Regev ‘s legislative initiative to stop funding artistic endeavors that seek to delegitimize Israel as the Jewish state. Israeli taxpayers should not subsidize their own defamation. Minister Regev’s legislation does not infringe on the free speech rights of the anti-Israel propagandists. Rather, it asserts the taxpayers’ legitimate rights not to have their taxes used to undermine the state. Israel’s financial support for these defamatory plays, movies, etc., has no place at home, but it is most damaging to supporters of Israel abroad. How can we object to travesties like the Motti Lerner play, “Return to Haifa,” being performed in Washington, DC, when a Likud government pays to bring the troupe to Washington to perform it? This play alleges that Jews forced Arabs from Haifa in 1948. It also spuriously equates the murder of 1.5 million Jewish children in the Holocaust to the fictional abduction of an Arab child in 1948 Haifa. READ MORE