Toronto declaration
Boycotts Must Happen in the Heart
As a writer born in the South, both black and a woman, I’ve had my share of fights with the legendary white male writer, William Faulkner, who, in the Sixties, was quoted as saying if it came to that, he’d join the white Southerners refusing integration in the South and “shoot down n-----s in the street.” He was an astonishing writer, with a similarly intense imagination and fidelity to the psychic history of his terrain - Mississippi - as Gabriel Garcia Marquez has to his, in South America.
Canadian-Jewish filmmaker slams TIFF's spotlight on Tel Aviv
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.'