[Livia]

Originally Posted by MTVN

But the Tricycle Theatre does actually tend to do that, according to this article they've always been very consistent in not allowing any events which are tinged by political partisanship:



The writer does actually go on to criticise the cancellation and makes a fair argument, but even if the decision was a misjudged one I can understand the intention and don't think accusations of anti-semitism are at all fair

From the same article:

We’ve considered the Tricycle’s decision as a matter of intent. But we also have to consider its effects. And this is where the defences prove inadequate.

The Tricycle may say, and mean, that it would turn down funding from Hamas, but it seems highly unlikely that the question of a Hamas-funded film festival in the UK will arise in the weeks ahead; and, for all that it rejects money from the Labour party, it certainly accepts it from the Arts Council, a stance that was not reversed during the war in Iraq.

It may say, and mean, that it would have happily provided alternative funding, but it must have known that to ask the UKJFF to forego funding from the Israeli embassy placed it in an impossible position. It may say, and mean, that its actions are aimed squarely at the prosecutors of a hideous war, and no one else. But it isn’t Benjamin Netanyahu who will be missing out on the latest works by Eytan Fox or Josh Aronson on a rainy Tuesday night in north London.