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<h5>Nigel Kennedy  (photo: Chris Christodoulou/BBC)</h5>
<p>The BBC has confirmed that it will censor a statement made by violinist Nigel Kennedy from its television broadcast of <a href="http://mondoweiss.net/2013/08/bbc-festival-features-palestine-strings-and-condemnation-of-apartheid-to-jubilant-applause.html">his performance with the Palestine Strings at a prestigious music festival last week</a>. In his statement <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/proms" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">at the Proms</a>, Mr. Kennedy used the word “apartheid” to describe the world in which his Palestinian colleagues live.</p>
<p><a href="http://palestinejournal.net/nigel-kennedy_palstrings_apartheid_aug-8-2013.mp3">Click here</a> for a recording of the actual statement the BBC is excising from its broadcast[1]. The following is a transcript:</p>
<blockquote><p>“It’s a bit facile to say it, but we all know from the experience of this night of music, that giving equality and getting rid of apartheid gives a beautiful chance for amazing things to happen.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>According to <em>The </em><a href="http://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/110366/bbc-cut-kennedy-slur-proms-broadcast"><em>Jewish Chronicle</em></a>[2], BBC governor Baroness Deech called for an apology from Mr. Kennedy and said that “the remark was offensive and untrue. There is no apartheid in Israel.” Not only is there no apartheid in Israel, she claimed, but nor is there any in Gaza or the West Bank. (She made no mention of East Jerusalem.)</p>
<p>In fact, nearly all aspects of Apartheid, as defined by the UN, apply to Israel in all four of its guises: domestically, its military occupation of the West Bank, its military &#8216;annexation&#8217; of East Jerusalem, and its siege of Gaza.</p>
<p><strong>This legal definition includes&#8230; (<a href="http://mondoweiss.net/2013/08/bbc-to-censor-violinist-nigel-kennedys-statement-about-israeli-apartheid-from-tv-broadcast.html" target="_blank">read the full article at Mondoweiss</a>)</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Related:</strong></p>
<h3><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><span style="color:#000000;text-decoration:underline;">Official Statement from Nigel Kennedy on BBC Censorship</span> </span></h3>
<p><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><strong><a href="http://www.kadaitcha.com/2013/08/20/official-statement-from-nigel-kennedy-on-bbc-censorship/">Read the statement on Kadaitcha </a></strong></span></p>
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<h3><span style="color:#000000;"><strong>Still living in fairy-tale-land about Israel?</strong></span></h3>
<p><span style="color:#000000;"><strong>Time to wake up: The Map of the &#8220;Greater Israel&#8221; even is hammered on the currency:</strong></span></p>
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<p><span style="color:#000000;"><strong>You can forget all details.<br />
Save yourself time.<br />
It is only about Ethnic Cleansing</strong> <strong>of Palestine</strong></span></p>
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