Yesterday I mischaracterized the Toronto Declaration

I am grateful to a careful reader for pointing out that I have mischaracterized some aspects of the Toronto Declaration. The statement says, "We do not protest the individual Israeli filmmakers included in City to City, nor do we in any way suggest that Israeli films should be unwelcome at TIFF." Media reports led me to believe otherwise. Some of my other concerns about the declaration are still valid, but I think there’s a lot more nuance and substance to the effort than I indicated in my post yesterday. I still think the points I was making about broad-based boycotts are valid, and they are in fact buttressed by the fact that the Toronto declaration was careful not to be as broad-based as I thought it might have been. In other words, while I unfairly mischaracterized, at least to some extent, the Toronto declaration, I stand by my generalized observations about the need to distinguish between helpful and unhelpful boycott and divestment actions. This one looks a lot better to me today than it did before, and it was unusual oversight for me to rely on secondary sources rather than primary ones.