The Cape Town Opera is performing Porgy and Bess in Tel Aviv, Israel. On opening night a group of Israeli Peace activists held a flash mob outside the opera house, calling on the performers to boycott Israel. That same night a group of settlers protested the boycott of a new cultural center in Ariel. Video by Carmelle Wolfson.

Udi Aloni Testimony from the Toronto Declaration, a group of prominent filmmakers and activists who are speaking out against the Toronto International Film Festival's decision to choose Tel Aviv for its City-to-City programming.

Elle Flanders speaks out about the Toronto Film Festival's choice of Tel Aviv for their City to City programming. Flanders is a Toronto-based filmmaker who grew up in Israel. Her work focuses on the Israel and Palestine, and includes the award-winning 'Zero Degrees of Separation', a feature documentary about gay and lesbian Israelis and Palestinians in cross-border relationships. She has recently returned to Toronto after a year spent living in Ramallah.

Flanders was speaking at an event called 'Celebrating solidarity: A different spotlight.'