More Artists Call Out BDS Bullying By Aigle Middle East • January 2013 • Views: 434 Italian author Umberto Eco called their ideas “absolutely crazy” and “fundamentally racist.” Irish writer Gerard Donovan referred to them as “idiots” who try to bully and cajole and are guilty of “outright intimidation.’ The band Dervish was on the receiving end of their ‘avalanche of negativity’, ‘venom’ and “hatred.” (Irish justice minister Alan Shatter described it as “cyberbullying.”) And now Jazz musicians Erik Truffaz and Jack Terrasson, and Terrasson’s manager Christophe Deghelt are the latest artists to defy and speak out against the anti-Israel boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement. Deghelt writes…