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And, just across the street from Yerba Buena, more shenanigans from artists. Why would these artists think that the Contemporary Jewish Museum would agree to not accept any funding from any Israeli source?

https://www.kqed.org/arts/13955613/pro-palestinian-jewish-artists-withdraw-from-contemporary-jewish-museum-exhibit

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I like how they submitted work to be rejected, failed, and threw a fit over it.

Is the anti-Zionism sincere, I wonder, or are they sucking up to the progressives who would cancel them if they didn't profess it? I guess I'd wonder about it more if the art was any good. "Rematriation," give me a break.

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Throwing the fit, obviously for effect, is a key consideration for such people. The purported reason for it is not the point but the pretext--the point is the production that can be made out of it and the attention that can be procured. It's like actors, who must have some sort of script to perform--and there's a lot of theater going on.

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Yes, the "expected it to be rejected" was a nice touch.

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There'll be no gentle return to the good old days. Goodbye dollar. And possibly, as real money becomes memory, goodbye museums.

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You're back to your usual brilliance. Now, if you could look into the future and describe the movie's denouement. At least we'd know whether to duck or celebrate.

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It's either hyperinflation or debt default. Duck, then pick over the ruins.

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