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Jewish pro-Palestine campaigners in Manchester are calling on organisers of a Jewish film festival there to reject funding from the Israeli embassy.
The Jewish Film Festival starts today and runs until November 23 at three cinemas.
Manchester Jews for Justice for Palestine said: "We welcome events celebrating Jewish culture and history. However, we oppose the festival accepting sponsorship from the Israeli embassy and ask the cinemas to refuse that funding.
"Events sponsored by the Israeli state implicitly support the militaristic, expansionist policies of that state.
"The receipt of Israeli sponsorship offers no choice for the many Jews in Manchester who want to enjoy current Jewish culture, but want to distance themselves from Israel's wars and military occupation of Palestinian lands.
"By accepting sponsorship, it furthers the well-funded international propaganda campaign orchestrated by the Israeli state, that makes the fraudulent claim that Israel and Israeli culture speaks for and in the name of all Jews.
"We challenge that claim."
