In "The Toronto Declaration: No Celebration of Occupation" posted online today, a dazzling array of festival-hopping luminaries denounced the festival for celebrating "an apartheid regime." Saying that the Tel Aviv celebration plays into a sinister Israeli government cabal to create "Brand Israel" the declaration states:

This program ignores the suffering of thousands of former residents and descendants of the Tel Aviv/Jaffa area who currently live in refugee camps in the Occupied Territories or who have been dispersed to other countries, including Canada. Looking at modern, sophisticated Tel Aviv without also considering the city's past and the realities of Israeli occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza strip, would be like rhapsodizing about the beauty and elegant lifestyles in white-only Cape Town or Johannesburg during apartheid without acknowledging the corresponding black townships of Khayelitsha and Soweto.

The signatories include Naomi Klein, David Byrne, Eve Ensler, Jane Fonda, Danny Glover, Ken Loach, Wallace Shawn, Alice Walker and Howard Zinn.

On the other end of the entertainment world, thousands of citizens of Los Angeles were reportedly struck deaf by a thunderous electronic tone after every agency and production company in Hollywood simultaneously took their phones off the hook to avoid being asked if they supported the Toronto's Film Festival's Spotlight on Tel Aviv.

The massive, traffic-stopping march that drew a couple dozen to Manhattan's Ed Sullivan theater on Tuesday in protest of Letterman's rape-speech was organized by failed sportscaster and radio host John Zeigler. But he and his followers aren't the only ones who've heeded Sarah Palin's call to "rise up." Deprived recently of a target to shrilly—that's right we said shrilly—harangue, disaffected Hillary Clinton voters have taken to the streets, and to Photoshop, to threaten Letterman's advertisers with a boycott unless they stop subsidizing his sexual assaults bad jokes.

UPDATE: An Olive Garden spokesman tells the New York Times that they didn't actually pull their ads; rather, they merely let a previously scheduled run of ads expire earlier this month. Sounds like a standard advertiser dodge when they're trying to cave to outrage without appearing to do so.

Hillbuzz, one of the premier reactionary Clintonist sites, has taken time off from its ongoing search for Michelle Obama's "whitey tape" to draw up clever versions of some Letterman advertisers' brands that reflect the truth about the man they sponsor. Here's some of their handiwork:

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[Via Balloon Juice.]

We sent our very own video whiz Mike Byhoff up to midtown to check out the scene. What he found: a handful of retirees, some fans of radio host John Ziegler, one very bored looking little boy, and a scrum of media trying their best to keep this insipid feud going after Letterman apologized and Palin accepted it.

What have we learned from this little episode? First, we should send Mike out to shoot video more often — nice job, Mike. Second, what people say on the Internet has little bearing on what they do IRL. And lastly, we should all go re-read Daniel Boorstin.

ARE YOU A FAN? THEN YOU SHOULD BE OUTRAGED AT MARVEL! [...]

Marvel is under the impression that just any person can play Col. James "Rhodey" Rhodes. They are sadly mistaken. Marvel asked Terrence Howard to be Rhodey. He signed on to play Rhodey. Terrence Howard became Rhodey.

We were under the impression that when you signed a contract with someone, it was their word. "That's how Dad did it. That's how America does it. And it's worked out pretty good so far."

Signed,

Future Ticket Holders

And outrage is mounting at the petition site, where nearly 900 of those angry FTH's have stormed the barricades with pickets screaming, "Marvel you're going to pay for your wretched treachery," "I support this petition With all my power and right to the death," " Ya lol i agree! down with Cheadle! Up with Howard!" and — in the equivalent of a dirty bomb thrown in Marvel's lobby — "Terrance [sic] Howard o nada! mejor cancelen Iron Man 2." Surely whenever the SWAT team is finished over at MGM Tower, they'll be on the spot in Beverly Hills.

• Terrence Howard as War Machine in 'Iron Man 2' [HowardNotCheadle.com]

An ominous, computer-voiced message on YouTube called out Scientology for their "campaigns of misinformation; suppression of dissent; your litigious nature." It was signed, simply, Anonymous. After it was determined that Anonymous was neither a lost Radiohead b-side nor Stephen Hawking, a vocal anti-Scientology movement sprouted around it, resulting in its first physical manifestation in yesterday's international protests. Defamer video swami Molly McAleer hoofed it to the action to get up close and personal with these masked men and women of Anonymous's L.A. chapter.

• Web Scout: Spinning through online entertainment and connected culture [LAT]
• Message to Scientology [YouTube]

Yes, that's right, much like Jericho and Roswell before it, Best Week Ever is encouraging fans of Friday Night Lights to show their support for the series by making use of the USPS. However, unlike sending packages filled with peanuts and Tabasco, Best Week Ever is not encouraging fans to appease the hungry suits in Burbank by sending them foodstuffs. Rather, they would like fans to mail in light bulbs with the words "Lights On" written on them. Sounds like those poor souls who man the NBC mailroom might want to invest in some thick work gloves, as we're fairly certain that a good number of those bulbs will break in transit. No matter what the end product looks like when it arrives on Ben Silverman's desk, we're just happy that his mailbox will soon be full of something other than little love notes to himself. Good luck, kids!

• Save Friday Night Lights [BWE.tv]

However, we suppose we'll have to wait and see if Phoenix and his SAG brethren will be willing to take the next step in supporting the writers' cause, joining WGA members in a planned, E!-televised toppling of the 50-foot Oscar statues outside the Kodak Theatre, an act that will officially bring to a close this historically turbulent awards season.

• People's Choice Awards
• Reconfigured People's Choice Awards Resembles Public Access TV With A Budget [Defamer]

Susan Sarandon outraged the Jewish Voice for Peace group when she crossed its picket line to attend a cocktail party last month in the new Madison Avenue jewelry store of Lev Leviev, a diamond-dealing real-estate mogul who owns the former New York Times building and the Apthorp building on the Upper West Side.

Now the California-based grass-roots organization has sent the star a letter asking her to "publicly sever ties" with the jeweler, whom the group is boycotting because he supports Jewish settlements in the West Bank. But Sarandon's rep denies she's allied with the high-end gem dealer.

You read right: the Jews opposing "settlements" weren't lawyers, they were pro-Palestinian protesters. These "Jews," whose payos were suspiciously affixed with duct tape, chanted "Sorry 'bout those charging tanks! Sorry that we run all banks!" and "What do want? Pogroms! When do we want them? Now!" at the Bull Durham star in an effort to bring peace to the Hamas-led region. (The same Jews will be protesting at the set of the next Justin Long film. They just hate him.)

• JEWELER FOES BLAST SARANDON

Shame on Vivendi for allowing its subsidiary, Blizzard Entertainment, to contribute to erosion of area standards for carpenter craft workers...

...ASK UNIVERSAL MUSIC GROUP TO CONTACT THEIR PARENT COMPANY VIVENDI. THEY SHOULD NOT BE ABLE TO PROFIT FROM BLIZZARDS (sic) USE OF ALL STAR INSTALLATIONS. ALSO ASK UMG WHY THE SECURITY AT THEIR OFFICE IS HARRASING (sic) US AND INTERFERING WITH OUR FREE SPEECH RIGHTS...