(NEWS) Knesset Bill To Cut Funding Of Leftist Artists Boycotting Ariel

"Knesset Members are threatening to cut off funding for more than 30 artists who say they refuse to appear in a new theater to open in November in the city of Ariel, home to 17,000 Israelis, because it is located in Samaria. Ariel Mayor Ron Nachman called the performers part of a small minority of extremists, many of whom are in the performing arts.

The artists and actors wrote in a letter to the national management of theaters in Israel that no performances should be held in Judea and Samaria, but rather only 'within the Green Line,' a term that designates Israel's borders before the Six Day War. They claimed it was 'against their consciences.'"