Cultural activists defy Israeli right - Financial Times

Earlier this year dozens of Israeli actors, playwrights and directors jointly boycotted a theatre in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. The artists said they would not perform in a new cultural centre in Ariel, a 19,000-strong enclave on land Israel captured in the 1967 war against its Arab neighbours.

The rare boycott call did more than reveal a lack of national consensus over Ariel, which successive Israeli governments have insisted would be annexed in any future peace pact. It also marked a growing public protest movement by Israeli cultural and intellectual figures against a rightward shift in politics.