By Oliver Holmes and Quique Kierszenbaum
PLO secretary general calls invitation for Palestinians to attend insulting as Israeli ‘burner’ community also expresses dismay
A plan by an Israeli group to hold a Burning Man-style event in the deserts of the occupied territories has sparked frustration among Palestinians and dismay from Israeli festival enthusiasts who say it goes against the original event’s founding principles.
The annual gathering in America’s Nevada desert, with its massive art installations, costumes and symbolic burning of an effigy of “The Man”, has gathered a global following.
Source: Israeli group plan Burning Man-like event in occupied West Bank
Category: Palestinian territories, Israel, Saeb Erekat, World news, Middle East and North Africa
