Miri Regev Leaves Ophir Awards to Protest Reading of Darwish Poem
Far-right Minister of Culture Miri Regev (Likud) walked out of the Ophir Awards ceremony on Thursday, September 22, to protest the reading of a poem by the late Palestinian national poet Mahmoud Darwish. “I left in the middle of a poem by Mahmoud Darwish at the Ophir Awards,” Regev wrote on her Facebook page. ”I…