Opinion | ‘We Used to Be the Belle of the Ball’: The New Isolation of the Israeli Cultural Scene

"The idea that participating in a gathering of Israeli writers might be career-ending was striking to me but conventional wisdom" to one of Sharon Waxman's interviewees for this piece. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/o...

They just dont fucking get it, do they? If this is the only negative you see in Netanyahu’s rule, then perhaps another 20 years out in the cold is required for you to realise why you’re being excluded. Israeli artists lament being excluded from global culture. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/o...

www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/o... Get rid of Bibi and his corrupt supports and see what happens. It may take a while, but until Bibi’s long gone, the world will avoid Israel like the plague. The same holds true for the USA.

‘We Used to Be the Belle of the Ball’: The New Isolation of the Israeli Cultural Scene www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/o.... Cry me a river. They are all complicit