tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46591333138579465842024-03-05T00:24:15.376-08:00Refrain Playing IsraelUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger167125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4659133313857946584.post-69906717137556669292018-01-01T06:24:00.000-08:002018-01-01T19:20:05.417-08:00Cultural Boycott of Israel Highlights: 2017 <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">March, 2017:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Australian singer-songwriter Natalie Imbruglia courageously cancels a concert in apartheid Israel [2]. The award-winning singer was asked to respect the boycott in an open letter, "Natalie Imbruglia, Please Don’t Make a Big Mistake [3]."</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Musicians’ Union of Ireland (MUI) passes a motion, stating: “The executive of the Musicians’ Union of Ireland urges its members, in view of the repeated and continued disregard by Israel of International Law and Humanitarian Law, to boycott all Cultural Activities funded by the Israeli state and not to accept engagements in Israel except where that event is in support of Equal Rights for Palestinians. We believe such an approach should continue until such time that Israel recognizes Equal Rights for Palestinians and observes International Law.”[4]</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">British cultural icon Banksy shows continued support for the cultural boycott of Israel. Fatboy Slim's performance for the <a href="http://walledoffhotel.com/index.html">Walled Off Hotel</a> in Bethlehem was cancelled when Slim broke</span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;"> the boycott and performed in apartheid Israel [5].</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">May, 2017: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Prominent cultural historian Professor Catherine Hall of University College London declined to receive the Dan David Prize, which was due to be awarded on Sunday in a ceremony at Tel Aviv. Hall stated:</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">June, 2017: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> The Tel Aviv International LGBTQ Film Festival is unable to appropriate works by fourteen filmmakers and other artists. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sávio Leite (Brazil), Darren Thornton (Ireland), Antonio da Silva (Portugal), Six members of the cast and crew of the German film The Misandrists, John Trengove (South Africa), Fawzia Mirza (Canada), Nadia Abraham (Faroe Islands), Jasna Fritzi Bauer (Switzerland), Catherine Gund and Daresha Kyi (United States) are all proud supporters of the cultural boycott of Israel [9].</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Haneen Maikey’s brilliant article, titled “</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I reject the use of my queerness to erase other sites of oppression around me. Will you stand on the right side of history, with me?</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> [10]” educated and inspired many.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Grammy award-winning hip hop duo Macklemore and Ryan Lewis <a href="https://twitter.com/PACBI/status/877078630609846272">cancel</a> their July gig in Tel Aviv. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Student-led BDS campaigns resulted in two major Chilean universities canceling an event featuring the Israeli State Antiquities Commission. Both the Alberto Hurtado University Anthropology Department and the University of Chile's Social Sciences Faculty cancelled the Israeli events."[11]</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">October, 2017:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Professor Emeritus Noam Chomsky of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology asserts his support for the cultural </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">boycott of Israel in a </span><a href="https://artistsforpalestine.org.uk/2017/10/12/chomsky-clarifies-position-on-the-cultural-boycott-of-israel/"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">statement</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, clarifying his outlook. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Radiohead fans were treated to Dave Randall’s Guardian </span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jul/11/radiohead-reject-israel-boycott-play-tel-aviv-palestinians"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">article</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, while New York Post Radiohead fans learned about BDS in another article. Freelance journalist Liam O’Hare </span><a href="https://twitter.com/Liam_O_Hare/status/883531630564061184"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">let followers know</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> about the opposition to Radiohead playing in Israel. Thousands of Independent readers were </span><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/radiohead-israel-palestine-boycott-bds-thom-yorke-ken-loach-meet-discuss-it-a7835291.html"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">reminded</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> of Desmond Tutu’s words: “there is no neutrality in situations of grave injustice,” in a informative piec</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">e by acclaimed film director Ken Loach. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Following the global push for Radiohead to cancel their Tel Aviv gig, Roger Waters (founder of Pink Floyd), Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth), and Ken Loach joined with over 20 other highly regarded artists to </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ask </span><a href="https://artistsforpalestine.org.uk/2017/10/30/open-letter-to-nick-cave-dont-go-not-while-apartheid-remains/"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> to can</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">cel their gig in Tel Aviv. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“<i>We were naive enough to think that our musical project could break barriers and that we would perform for the «good» or the «right» people of Israel. But we realized recently that this is an impossible task, as Israel government, whose politic we consider as being one of reject and occupation, is too much present in every aspect of cultural life in Tel Aviv. We have decided not to perform again in non-Palestinians venues of Tel Aviv, nor to appear in Israel connected events worldwide.[13].”</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Musical artists Abu Hajar, Annie Goh, Emel Mathlouthi, Hello Psychaleppo, Iklan featuring Law Holt, Islam Chipsy & EEK, Oranssi Pazuzu and Young Fathers all support the cultural boycott of Israel. The bands cancelled their gigs at Pop-Kultur, Berlin. Pop-Kultur accepted funding from the State of Israel, meaning the festival shamefully fell under cultural boycott guidelines [14]. </span></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“As I read about the the history of the State of Israel in using culture as a tool to distract from the violence in Palestine, I asked myself how I could stand for freedom and justice on one stage, and promote quite the opposite on another? How can this bring about a peaceful society?</span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I must decline to present my work at the Israel Festival in 2018. I stand firmly opposed to the Occupation and apartheid that Palestine has been subjected to for decades</span><span style="background-color: white; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> [19].”</span></span></span></i></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Double Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Lorde is quick to scrap a gig in Israel. Two New Zealand fans wrote Lorde an open letter, </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">which caught international media attention with its highlighting of Israel’s many crimes against humanity [20]. Lorde issued a bold statement</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[1] </span><a href="https://www.democracynow.org/2017/2/24/nfl_star_michael_bennett_on_refusing"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.democracynow.org/2017/2/24/nfl_star_michael_bennett_on_refusing</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[2] </span><a href="http://www.tv3.ie/xpose/article/entertainment-news/231082/Natalie-Imbruglia-cancels-Israeli-gig-after-activist-pressure"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.tv3.ie/xpose/article/entertainment-news/231082/Natalie-Imbruglia-cancels-Israeli-gig-after-activist-pressure</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[3] </span><a href="http://www.kadaitcha.com/2017/02/11/natalie-imbruglia-cancels-her-gig-in-apartheid-israel/"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.kadaitcha.com/2017/02/11/natalie-imbruglia-cancels-her-gig-in-apartheid-israel/</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[4] </span><a href="http://www.ipsc.ie/press-releases/8345"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.ipsc.ie/press-releases/8345</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[5] </span><a href="https://artistsforpalestine.org.uk/2017/03/08/banksy-withdraws-invitation-to-fatboy-slim-to-perform-at-walled-off-hotel/"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://artistsforpalestine.org.uk/2017/03/08/banksy-withdraws-invitation-to-fatboy-slim-to-perform-at-walled-off-hotel/</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[6] </span><a href="http://www.alternativenews.org/index.php/headlines/387-princess-nokia-cancels-show-in-israeli-music-festival-amidst-bds-pressure"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.alternativenews.org/index.php/headlines/387-princess-nokia-cancels-show-in-israeli-music-festival-amidst-bds-pressure</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[7] </span><a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2016/09/black-lives-matter-palestine-historic-alliance-160906074912307.html"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2016/09/black-lives-matter-palestine-historic-alliance-160906074912307.html</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[8] </span><a href="https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.720909"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.720909</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[9] </span><a href="https://bdsmovement.net/news/surge-support-boycott-israeli-lgbt-film-festival-shows-growing-respect-palestinian-picket-line"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://bdsmovement.net/news/surge-support-boycott-israeli-lgbt-film-festival-shows-growing-respect-palestinian-picket-line</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and </span><a href="https://bdsmovement.net/news/wave-boycotts-hits-israeli-lgbt-film-festival-international-artists-heed-palestinian-call"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://bdsmovement.net/news/wave-boycotts-hits-israeli-lgbt-film-festival-international-artists-heed-palestinian-call</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[10] </span><a href="http://www.newsweek.com/why-we-should-boycott-gay-pride-tel-aviv-623211"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.newsweek.com/why-we-should-boycott-gay-pride-tel-aviv-623211</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[13] </span><a href="http://refrainplayingisrael.blogspot.com/2017/12/acid-arab-affirms-cultural-boycott-of.html"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://refrainplayingisrael.blogspot.com/2017/12/acid-arab-affirms-cultural-boycott-of.html</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/bands-pull-out-berlins-pop-kultur-festival-over-israeli-sponsorship">https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/bands-pull-out-berlins-pop-kultur-festival-over-israeli-sponsorship</a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[15] </span><a href="https://bdsmovement.net/news/israel-sponsored-culinary-festival-loses-another-chef-amid-boycott-calls"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://bdsmovement.net/news/israel-sponsored-culinary-festival-loses-another-chef-amid-boycott-calls</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/top-irish-chef-pulls-out-israeli-propaganda-tour"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/top-irish-chef-pulls-out-israeli-propaganda-tour</span></span></a></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[16] </span><a href="http://uproxx.com/music/olof-dreijer-the-knife-bds-boycott-israel/"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://uproxx.com/music/olof-dreijer-the-knife-bds-boycott-israel/</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[17] </span><a href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/watch-thank-god-its-friday"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/watch-thank-god-its-friday</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[18] </span><a href="https://medium.com/@TonyGreenstein/bds-victory-ragn-bone-man-says-no-to-apartheid-and-no-to-israel-c59afdcf504f"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://medium.com/@TonyGreenstein/bds-victory-ragn-bone-man-says-no-to-apartheid-and-no-to-israel-c59afdcf504f</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[19] </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/GoodGirlFromGoodFamily/posts/136909920358115"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.facebook.com/GoodGirlFromGoodFamily/posts/136909920358115</span></a></span></div>
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<a href="http://refrainplayingisrael.blogspot.com/2017/12/mallika-tanejas-acclaimed-thoda-dhyaan.html"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">http://refrainplayingisrael.blogspot.com/2017/12/mallika-tanejas-acclaimed-thoda-dhyaan.html</span></span></a></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">[21] <a href="http://www.newsweek.com/lorde-israel-palestinians-bds-tel-aviv-758328">http://www.newsweek.com/lorde-israel-palestinians-bds-tel-aviv-758328</a></span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4659133313857946584.post-39793796964530668942017-12-19T07:52:00.000-08:002017-12-19T07:52:32.030-08:00Mallika Taneja's Acclaimed "THODA DHYAAN SE" will not be used by State of Israel to cover up violence against Palestinians<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #444444;">Mallika Taneja uses her talent as an actress to communicate important messages. Her stage performance of "THODA DHYAAN SE" has toured the world. Mallika was asked to perform in Israel, where violations of international law put Palestinian lives under severe stress. Mallika not only respects the cultural boycott of Israel, but she also vocally supports it. She writes on her facebook:</span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444;">I was recently approached by the Israel Festival to explore the possibility of presenting my work at (the) their festival. I had declined their offer and had written a letter of boycott. In light of the latest developments in the region, I have decided to make this letter public. I urge all artists to consider participation in Israeli State led festivals and other cultural initiatives.</span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">24th November, 2017</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">To the Israel Festival,<br />Jerusalem.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">Thank you very much for your interest in my work and for the possibility of presenting the work at your festival. I apologise it has taken me so long to reply to your emails.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">I see on your website that your festival has been recognised as an important one in the region as a "cultural promoter for a more peaceful society". I also see that your festival is funded by the State of Israel and like you mention, the Indian Embassy is interested in presenting artists at your event.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">It has taken me a while to gather my thoughts in order to respond to your interest in my work. Let me try and explain my difficulty.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">Last year, I watched a play here in India. One scene from this play in particular has stuck with me. A man is fleeing his village. But he carries on himself a very large Zaitoon tree. He is weighed down by it. We cannot see his face. His back is bent. Only his voice can be heard. He tells us that he is carrying a piece of his land on his back, a piece of his identity, a marker of who he is and where he comes from. This tree had been like a child to him. He has nurtured it, saved it from the forces of nature, given it a healthy life. He couldn't leave his child behind. His home and his country have been snatched away from him.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">As I watched, I wondered to myself, what would happen if someone snatched away my home, my identity, my dignity from me? Who would tell my story? Or will the world carry on as if nothing happened?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">I think we might have lost count of how many homes, trees, identities, dignities and children have been lost in the face of the ongoing Occupation of Palestine by Israel, and by the operations of the apartheid state inside Israel.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">I am also aware that the forebears of the people of Israel endured the most horrific violence and I have always sympathised with their suffering. I am therefore even more pained when I see the Israeli State perpetrating a brutal colonial Occupation on Palestinians.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">I do not know if you have seen any of my work previously. As an artist, my word and my body stands firmly with the cause of equality, justice and freedom for people all over the world. It is what gives me my voice. I believe in the power of the arts to transform people and minds. I believe the arts need to tell stories that no one else tells. I have witnessed festivals being sites of deep connect and healing. I believe that the arts must be political... in its content as well as its intent. I also believe that we as artists must be aware of the stage that we stand on, and what that stage stands for.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">As I read about the the history of the State of Israel in using culture as a tool to distract from the violence in Palestine, I asked myself how I could stand for freedom and justice on one stage, and promote quite the opposite on another? How can this bring about a peaceful society?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">I must decline to present my work at the Israel Festival in 2018. I stand firmly opposed to the Occupation and apartheid that Palestine has been subjected to for decades. I also take great exception to my own government's increasing blindness to Israel's illegal Occupation. It will always be my endeavour, as an artist and an individual, to stand for freedom and justice and against ethnic violence within my country and outside of it.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">Mallika Taneja<br />Theatre Artist<br />New Delhi</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">Acid Arab's facebook post from Nov. 8 and 13, 2017 stated strong support for the Cultural Boycott of Israel:</span><br />
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Hello,<br />In response to some propaganda claims regarding Acid Arab shows in Jaffa and Haiffa, we would like to clarify that these shows are performed in Palestinian venues, and organized by Palestinian promoters.<br />In the past, we played three times in Tel Aviv. We were naive enough to think that our musical project could break barriers and that we would perform for the «good» or the «right» people of Israel. But we realized recently that this is an impossible task, as Israel government, whose politic we consider as being one of reject and occupation, is too much present in every aspect of cultural life in Tel Aviv. We have decided not to perform again in non-Palestinians venues of Tel Aviv, nor to appear in Israel connected events worldwide.<br />We refuse to lend our names to a regime of occupation, lead by religious convictions instead of human rights. We will never undermine the non-violent Palestinians struggle for freedom, justice, equality and peace.<br />Much love and respect for all.</div>
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مؤخرا، قدمت فرقة "أسيد أراب" عروضا في حيفا و جفا. أثارت هذه الروض مجموعة من التعليقات و من ضمنها تهم دعاية لفائدة دولة إسرائيل. نود أن نلفت انتباهكم على نقطة بالغة الأهمية : تم تقديم جميع هذه العروض في قاعات فلسطينية مسيرة من طرف فلسطينيين و فلسطينيات. في الماضي، نعم، أدينا 3 عروض بتل أبيب. آنذاك، كنا ساذجين نوعا ما و كنا نظن أن بمشروعنا الموسيقي يمكننا "إسقاط الحدود" و استهداف الإسرائليين اللذين يشاركوننا الرأي. أدركنا مؤخرا أن هذه المهمة مستحيلة كون سياسة دولة إسرائيل سياسة رفض الآخر و استعمار. و هذه السياسة تنطبق على مجموعة من مظاهرالحياة الثقافية يتل أبيب. لقد قررنا أن ننهي عروضنا في القاعات الغيرـ الفلسطينية بتل أبيب و أن لا نشارك بفعاليات مرتبطة بدولة إسرائيل. نرفض أن يظهر إسم "أسيد أراب" بجانب نظام مستعمريدوس على حقوق الإنسان. نجدد دعمنا لفلسطين و نظالها الا مسلح من أجل الحرية، العدالة، المساواة و السلام. حب و احترام للجميع.<br />(translation: rania berrada)</div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Caetano, if I may pose a question, why would you not reject complicity with such injustice now, just as surely as you would have rejected white racism against South Africa’s black population back in the eighties? Your letter suggests you believe your upcoming gig in Tel Aviv can help change Israeli policy. I would suggest this is a naïve proposition. Sadly, it is not just the Israeli government that needs a change of heart. Polls indicate that a staggering 95% of the Jewish Israeli public supported the 2014 bombing of Gaza,(561 dead children), 75% do not support a Palestinian state based on the longnegotiated ’67 borders, and 47% believe Palestinians citizens of Israel should be stripped of their citizenship. </span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4659133313857946584.post-26945043602163153382015-04-29T19:38:00.001-07:002015-04-29T19:38:40.841-07:00Elvis Costello: His Support for Cultural Boycott of Israel Reaffirmed<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Roger Waters reaffirmed Elvis Costello's continued support for the cultural boycott of Israel in his recent article in <a href="http://www.salon.com/2015/04/28/roger_waters_to_robbie_williams_your_decision_to_play_in_tel_aviv_gives_succor_to_netanyahu_and_his_regime_and_endorses_their_deadly_racist_policies/">Salon.com</a>. Waters asks Robbie Williams, <span style="line-height: 20px;">UNICEF’s UK ambassador and a declared supporter of its </span><a href="http://blogs.unicef.org.uk/2014/10/23/famous-fathers-david-beckham-robbie-williams-unite-protect-children-danger/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; line-height: 20px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Children in Danger</a><span style="line-height: 20px;"> campaign, not to violate the BDS call by playing in Tel Aviv. Willams might do well to read Elvis Costello's letter from 2010.</span> Nearly five years ago Costello cancelled his planned gig in apartheid Israel, and wrote the acclaimed <b>"It is After Considerable Contemplation..." </b>statement on his "Yellow Press" </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Costello led the way for many other artists to also say YES to the call for a cultural boycott of Israel. Here's the well-known letter:<br />It is after considerable contemplation that I have lately arrived at the decision that I must withdraw from the two performances scheduled in Israel on the 30th of June and the 1st of July.<br />One lives in hope that music is more than mere noise, filling up idle time, whether intending to elate or lament.</span><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then there are occasions when merely having your name added to a concert schedule may be interpreted as a political act that resonates more than anything that might be sung and it may be assumed that one has no mind for the suffering of the innocent.<br />I must believe that the audience for the coming concerts would have contained many people who question the policies of their government on settlement and deplore conditions that visit intimidation, humiliation or much worse on Palestinian civilians in the name of national security.<br />I am also keenly aware of the sensitivity of these themes in the wake of so many despicable acts of violence perpetrated in the name of liberation.<br />Some will regard all of this an unknowable without personal experience but if these subjects are actually too grave and complex to be addressed in a concert, then it is also quite impossible to simply look the other way.<br />I offer my sincere apologies for any disappointment to the advance ticket holders as well as to the organizers.<br />My thanks also go to the members of the Israeli media with whom I had most rewarding and illuminating conversations. They may regard these exchanges as a waste of their time but they were of great value and help to me in gaining an appreciation of the cultural scene.<br />I hope it is possible to understand that I am not taking this decision lightly or so I may stand beneath any banner, nor is it one in which I imagine myself to possess any unique or eternal truth.<br />It is a matter of instinct and conscience.<br />It has been necessary to dial out the falsehoods of propaganda, the double game and hysterical language of politics, the vanity and self-righteousness of public communiqués from cranks in order to eventually sift through my own conflicted thoughts.<br />I have come to the following conclusions.<br />One must at least consider any rational argument that comes before the appeal of more desperate means.<br />Sometimes a silence in music is better than adding to the static and so an end to it.<br />I cannot imagine receiving another invitation to perform in Israel, which is a matter of regret but I can imagine a better time when I would not be writing this.<br />With the hope for peace and understanding.</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4659133313857946584.post-37500445302954589152015-04-09T06:45:00.000-07:002015-04-09T06:45:10.006-07:00Juliette Greco, for the sake of justice, please refuse to whitewash apartheid.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">You are an artist who has stood the test of time and whose songs and life story are known </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap;">to all. With your songs you convey the values of justice and the love of freedom. On many </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap;">occasions you have carried out acts of resistance, as you did when you bravely sang anti-</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap;">militarist songs at your concert in Pinochet's Chile. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In the name of those values, we are writing to you today regarding your concert planned for </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap;">4 May in Tel Aviv. <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Israel openly admits that it uses international artists like yourself in an attempt to improve </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap;">its image. So we sincerely hope that, as you prepare to retire from the stage, you will </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap;">consider the implications of your appearance in that country and instead choose not to join </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap;">in the whitewashing and normalisation of Israeli occupation, colonisation and apartheid </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap;">policies. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Please remember that Israel refuses to respect international law and persists in violating </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap;">numerous United Nations resolutions, among which are three examples:</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #444444;">- Resolution 194 granting Palestinian refugees their Right of Return</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- Resolution 242 demanding that Israel withdraw its army from the Palestinian territories it </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap;">is occupying.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #444444;">- Resolution 3236 reaffirming the Palestinian people's right to self-determination. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Israel continues to deprive the Palestinian people of their most elementary human rights. In </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap;">the West Bank, there are still 150 Israeli colonies and the segregation wall is still standing, </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap;">despite the 2004 ruling by the International Court of Justice which denounced its illegality </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap;">and called for it to be dismantled. Hundreds of military checkpoints and an apartheid-like </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap;">pass system prevent Palestinians from going to work, children from going to school, farmers </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap;">from harvesting their crops, pregnant women and the critically ill from reaching hospital. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap;">In Gaza, after Israel directed its criminal bombing at the entire civilian population last </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap;">summer (during which over 2,200 Palestinians were murdered, including 500 children, </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap;">according to United Nations figures), the Israeli government is still maintaining its blockade </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap;">and the population goes on suffering enormously. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In East Jerusalem, over 2,000 houses have been demolished by the Israeli authorities; </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap;">those same authorities have refused to register more than 5,000 children who are therefore </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap;">prevented from attending school, and tens of thousands of Palestinians have no homes any </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap;">more, any rebuilding being banned by Israel. </span></span></span></div>
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<b style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Faced with Israel's impunity, Palestinian civil society, supported by the most progressive </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap;">fringe of Israeli citizens, launched in 2005 the BDS (Boycott-Divestment-Sanctions) </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap;">campaign. This international non-violent campaign was inspired by the similar campaign </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap;">against South Africa in the apartheid era. It does not target individuals, it targets a political </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap;">regime and its institutions.</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Juliette Greco, you recently stated, when speaking about your final round of appearances, </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap;">that you wanted to make a beautiful exit. To make that beautiful exit a reality, we appeal </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap;">to you to hear the call for a cultural boycott of Israel, made by an oppressed people to the </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap;">world's artists of whom you are one, asking them not to perform there.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We are asking you today not to support these countless violations of universal human rights </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap;">and to join the personalities who have chosen not to appear in Israel as long as that State </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap;">refuses to respect international law.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Among the artists who have refused to participate in the whitewashing of Israel's crimes are:</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cassandra Wilson, Natacha Atlas, Cat Power, Gilles Vigneault, Roger Waters, Elvis </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap;">Costello, Carlos Santana, Annie Lennox, Vanessa Paradis, Llasa, Gil Scott-Heron, Jello </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap;">Biafra, Massive Attack, as well as Peter Brook, Susan Sarandon, Ken Loach, Mike Leigh....</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #444444;">Yours sincerely,</span></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4659133313857946584.post-1416203565566279032015-01-27T12:44:00.003-08:002015-01-30T06:03:53.476-08:00Tricky: Cancel your apartheid Israel Gig, recognize BDS!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444;">We recently heard you and your band plan to play in Israel on 26 February this year. Your planned gig comes a few months after Israel embarked on a murderous 50 day attack on the Palestinian people living in Gaza. Israel’s misleadingly termed ‘Operation Protective Edge’ killed over 2,200 people (including over 510 children) and maimed 10,000 more, left thousands homeless and caused the obliteration of 89 entire families. The devastation in Gaza is catastrophic and, as this is the third major assault on the Strip in just six years, has left the people there deeply traumatised. Israel also regularly kills Palestinians in the West Bank, imprisons thousands, including children, and carries out illegal home demolition as well as settlement building. There are more than 50 laws which discriminate against the Palestinian citizens of Israel, while those in the West Bank live under occupation, those in Gaza live under siege and constant attack, and the huge refugee population, spread all over the world, lives with the pain of exile and dispossession.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444;">Would you perform for the oppressors in any state? Would you have performed in Sun City during the era of South African apartheid? From EBONY magazine regarding Dream Defenders, formed in the aftermath of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin’s killing last year:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444;">“Dream Defenders unanimously passed a resolution to support the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement in this interval [1].”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444;">On 15 January, Dream Defenders visited Occupied Palestine and did a solidarity demonstration in support of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign called for by Palestinian civil society in 2005 [2].</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444;">While you may be told that music is a way to build bridges, in fact your very presence will be used as an endorsement, whether given or not, of Israel’s policies. Indeed its official state social media sites regularly post about artists who breach the boycott, linking them to state policy – do you really want this?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444;">Award winning author and BDS supporter David Sheen writes about Israel:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444;">“Another type of racist assault that has become increasingly common in Israel is attacks on Africans. Incitement against the 50,000 non-Jewish Africans who have sought asylum in Israel in recent years, including top government officials comparing them to cancer and Ebola, has made them a popular target for racist ruffians in Tel Aviv. Locals report it is not uncommon for Israeli youths to throw dog feces at African mothers nursing their babies. In January, an Israeli man stabbed a one-year-old African baby in the head and later explained to police that he did it because “they said that a black baby, blacks in general, are terrorists [3].”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444;">Tricky, we appeal to you to join many other artists of conscience, and respect the Palestinian-led call for a cultural boycott of Israel, to stand with the principle that justice -contingent on freedom and equality- must be present before peace is possible.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444;">Please know that you will not be playing to a free audience in Israel, you will be playing to a segregated audience, one which Palestinians cannot be part of. Your audience enjoys its privilege at the expense of millions of incarcerated, occupied Indigenous Palestinian people, and also African refugees who are imprisoned in camps in Israel.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444;">Israel is an apartheid state engaged in extreme discrimination against the Palestinian people. With so many years occupying and dehumanising the Palestinian people, Israel is an extremely racist society in which marches are common against the indigenous people and also immigrants seeking asylum.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444;">Inspired by this Palestinian led struggle which has huge international support, many artists have refused to play in Israel, including over 500 Irish artists who have all signed a pledge to respect the boycott. [4] The choice to join them is yours, please do the right thing.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/dontplayapartheidisrael/info" sl-processed="1" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">DPAI</b></a><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> (Don’t Play Apartheid Israel)</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444;">We are a group, of over 1700, representing many countries around the globe, who believe that it is essential for musicians & other artists to heed the call of the PACBI, and join in the boycott of Israel. This is essential in order to work towards justice for the Palestinian people under occupation, and also in refugee camps and in the diaspora throughout the world.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444;">[1]<a href="http://www.ebony.com/news-views/dream-defenders-black-lives-matter-ferguson-reps-take-historic-trip-to-palestine#axzz3P0RYklDX" sl-processed="1" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">http://www.ebony.com/news-views/dream-defenders-black-lives-matter-ferguson-reps-take-historic-trip-to-palestine#axzz3P0RYklDX</a>]</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444;">[2] <a href="https://www.facebook.com/DreamDefenders/posts/664571190318530" sl-processed="1" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">https://www.facebook.com/DreamDefenders/posts/664571190318530</a></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444;">[3] <a href="http://www.alternet.org/world/how-israel-covers-its-ugly-racial-holy-war" sl-processed="1" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">http://www.alternet.org/world/how-israel-covers-its-ugly-racial-holy-war</a></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4659133313857946584.post-2572817594393766272015-01-19T20:08:00.001-08:002015-01-25T12:35:39.300-08:00Kelis: The Cultural Boycott of Israel is the Right Thing<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #434343; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hey Kelis,</span></div>
<span style="color: #434343; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We recently heard you and your band plan to return to Israel on 6 and 7 February, this year. Your planned gigs are scheduled just 6 months after </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #434343; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Israel embarked on a violent attack on the people living in Gaza, who have suffered collectively under a brutal, illegal siege since 2006. Israel’s misleadingly termed “Operation Protective Edge” eventually killed over 2,200 people, including over 510 children, maiming many thousands more. The overwhelming consensus amongst people of conscience, is that it is time for BDS. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.pacbi.org/"><span style="color: #351c75;">Kelis: The Cultural Boycott <br />of Israel is the Right Thing</span></a></td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #434343; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #434343; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">BDS - boycott, divest and sanctions - includes a cultural boycott of Israel, because acts such as yours are used by Israel in a vigorous but futile effort to “re-Brand Israel,” (especially Tel Aviv) as a gay-friendly, artistic beacon of “freedom” in the Middle East. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #434343; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">First, Tel Aviv is not gay-friendly, not in the sense of acceptance of all people, encompassing human rights and advocacy for all oppressed people. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #434343; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">"This </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #434343; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>pinkwashing</b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #434343; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> of Israel not only plays on a variety of racist and Islamophobic tropes but also impedes a thorough and nuanced analysis of queer and feminist liberation. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #434343; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.5; white-space: pre-wrap;">It refuses to acknowledge that Palestinian queers are among those who are harassed, brutalised, displaced, bombed, and incarcerated. Whatever liberties might be extended to Jewish queers in Israel, being queer does not save Palestinians from the constant and brutal assault that forms the conditions of their lives. The Israeli army does not give a 'free pass' to queer Palestinians; in fact, its soldiers target LGBTQ Palestinians."</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #434343; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Second, Tel Aviv is not progressive. Progressive, forward thinking comes from a mindset of human rights, equality, and the desire to stop such injustices as the new Jim Crow in the USA, Israel’s land theft wall, administrative detention, and siege and attack on Gaza.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #434343; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Third, it is not commensurate with liberated artistic values to play for a segregated audience, while Palestinians under Israeli control are not allowed to leave the bantustans within which they are imprisoned. Not only may Palestinians not visit to listen to music - neither are they free to avail themselves of a hospital for childbirth!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #434343; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">EBONY magazine in the USA recently published “Why Black people Must Stand With Palestine”, drawing parallels to injustices; “similar to the Palestinians’ call for people of conscience to boycott and divest from companies that support their oppression, we might call on people abroad to pressure an end to "the New Jim Crow"---mass incarceration [1].”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #434343; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kelis, would you have the courage to cancel your gig in Israel, before tickets are sold, before Israel jails another child, bombs another home in Gaza, and stand with other artists of principle, like Talib Kweli, Stanley Jordan, Cassandra Wilson and many more to respect the cultural boycott today?</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/dontplayapartheidisrael/info" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #434343; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">DPAI</span></a></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #434343; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We are a group, of over 1,700 members, representing many countries around the globe, who believe that it is essential for musicians & other artists to heed the call of the PACBI, and join in the boycott of Israel. This is essential in order to work towards justice for the Palestinian people under occupation, and also in refugee camps and in the diaspora throughout the world.</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4659133313857946584.post-5123867827318734642015-01-08T20:05:00.004-08:002015-01-08T20:05:59.556-08:00An Appeal to Dusty Kid to Adhere to the campaign for a Cultural Boycott of Israel<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: #4c1130;">Dear Dusty Kid,</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">We recently learned that January 23, 2014 you will be returning to play in Tel Aviv. [1]</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">We're writing to ask you not to play in the apartheid state called Israel and to condemn Israeli violations of international law and human rights against the Palestinian people.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">Israel operates in blatant violation of basic human rights and international law by forcing the Palestinians to live under the oppression of a cruel system of racial discrimination and apartheid. [2]</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">For this reason, in 2005, over 170 Palestinian civil society organizations have called for boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel until the latter does not respect human rights and international law [3].</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">The Palestinian call for BDS, inspired by the successful boycott that contributed to the end of the apartheid regime in South Africa, has the support of artists, academics, trade unions, churches, student groups, organizations and people of conscience all over the world. In particular, the call for cultural boycott is aimed at all the artists of mondo chiedendo them not to perform in Israel and not to participate in events that aim to normalize the dramatic situation in the placing on the same level the occupier and the occupied, the 'oppressor and the oppressed. [4]</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">Performing in Israel today would be like performing for the South African regime during the apartheid years.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">There are numerous international artists and intellectuals [5] who have decided to respect the Palestinian call and to oppose Israel's cynical use of the arts to hide apartheid, ethnic cleansing and military occupation [6], including South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the Pulitzer Prize Alice Walker, Andreas Öberg, Angela Davis, Arundhati Roy, August Burns Red, Bono, Carlo Mombelli, Carlos Santana, Cassandra Wilson, Cat Power, Coldplay, Danny Glover, Devandra Banhart, Elvis Costello, Faithless, Gil Scott-Heron, Gorillaz Sound System, Jean Luc Godard, Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo school of Medicine, John Berger, Judith Butler, Stephen Hawking, Ken Loach, Lenny Kravitz, Mike Leigh, Mira Nair, Mireille Mathieu Naomi Klein, Natacha Altas, Oumou Sangare, Portico Quartet, Roger Waters, Snoop Dogg, Stanley Jordan, Stevie Wonder, The Pixies, Vanessa Paradis, Zakir Hussain</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">In a situation of injustice does not take a position equivalent to take a stand for the oppressor.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">So we urge you to cancel your concert in Israel and to refrain from program other concerts in Israel until Israel does not respect international law and human rights of the Palestinian people.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">Sharing the Palestinian call for boycott, as an artist of international fame can play a vital role in influencing change, in raising awareness and providing a contribution to the nonviolent Palestinian struggle for freedom, self-determination and equality.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">Waiting for a your reply, Best regards,</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">Sardinia Palestine Friendship Association</span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;">BDS Sardinia</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">Notes:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">[1] http://www.residentadvisor.net/dj/dustykid/dates?yr=2015&ctry=8 https://www.facebook.com/events/1460420734234086/</span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;">[2] http://lawcenter.birzeit.edu/iol/en/project/outputfile/6/986afcc6c9.pdf</span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;">[3] http://bdsitalia.org/index.php/campagna-bds/77-appello-bds</span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;">[4] http://bdsitalia.org/index.php/campagna-bac/317-appello-pacbi</span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;">[5] http://www.bdsmovement.net/activecamps/cultural-boycott</span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;">[6] http://mondoweiss.net/2009/03/ny-times-offers-the-rationale-for-the-cultural-boycott-of-israel.html</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130;"> Source: BDS Sardinia</span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4659133313857946584.post-89820777466457592912015-01-08T13:01:00.000-08:002015-01-08T13:01:13.573-08:00Laure Provost, Turner Prize Winner, respects the Cultural Boycott of Israel<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(Haaretz Israeli Press, Jan 8, 2015) For most Israelis, the cultural boycott of the country is felt mainly when a famous singer or a movie star decides not to come here to perform or attend a film festival. But the boycott, which has been in place officially since 2005 as part of the wider campaign of boycotts, divestment and sanctions, also exists in the field of art, and Israeli artists and art institutions are strongly affected by it. It is practiced overtly as well as covertly, officially and unofficially, and by a variety of groups within the art world.</span></span><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-hTCcIFK4qFA/VK7vRa-zH5I/AAAAAAAAJ7k/L035C0zliLo/s1600/Laure-Prouvost-015.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-hTCcIFK4qFA/VK7vRa-zH5I/AAAAAAAAJ7k/L035C0zliLo/s1600/Laure-Prouvost-015.jpg" height="180" width="320" /></span></b></a><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">SOURCE:</span><br /><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The quiet boycott: When Israeli art is out</span><br /><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">A conference in Tel Aviv will explore the impact of the BDS movement on the country’s contemporary art scene.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The boycott includes the refusal of Arab and Palestinian artists to take part in exhibitions abroad that include the works of Israeli artists and the refusal of foreign artists to show their work in Israel. The purpose of the boycott is to raise awareness about the Israeli occupation and Israeli violations of human rights.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On Thursday, a conference, organized by seven curators working in Israel, will be held at Tel Aviv’s Leyvik House, titled Dalut Hacherem: The Cultural Boycott of Israel and What It Means for Israeli Contemporary Art. The organizers — Chen Tamir, Leah Abir, Hila Cohen-Schneiderman, Joshua Simon, Omer Krieger, Udi Edelman and Avi Lubin — will discuss the manifestations of the cultural boycott as it relates to Israel’s contemporary art scene.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In a report summing up her year-long study of the issue, Tamir notes that the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel, the main organization behind the effort, focuses mainly on artists, curators and institutions abroad that deal with the Foreign Ministry and other official bodies and much less on what happens within Israel. PACBI, as the organization is called, “recognizes that Israeli artists, Jews and Arabs alike, are allowed to receive funding from the Ministry of Culture and Sports, the same way they are allowed to receive water if they pay taxes,” Tamir says, adding, “They don’t want to do PR for Israel. That is why the boycott is directed outward, and attempts to recruit actors from outside to put pressure on Israel.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tamir, who was born in Israel and raised in Canada, holds a Master’s Degree in Curatorial Studies from the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College; a B.F.A. in Visual Art; and a B.A. in Anthropology from York University in Toronto. She returned to Israel two and a half years ago and is the curator of the Center for Contemporary Art in Tel Aviv. She also works with Artis, a nonprofit organization based in New York that supports and promotes artists from Israel internationally. She says that when she meets people in her field abroad, the issue of the cultural boycott against Israel always comes up.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tamir’s report began as an internal document for Artis, and only later was a decision made to organize a conference around it.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Many people in the field asked me about it, so I realized that people need to know more about it. That is also the purpose of the conference, since it’s something that greatly affects the art world but it doesn’t have a lot of visibility,” Tamir says.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That lack of visibility stems in part from the fact that artists who choose not to cooperate with Israel do not always admit this openly. Sometimes they simply fail to respond to emails or cite other reasons not to show their work in Israel. Because there is no active protest in such cases, says Tamir, “It’s very difficult to concretize because it’s actually the absence of something.” For the same reason it is difficult to determine how many Israeli artists have not been invited to events abroad as a result of the boycott.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But for some cultural events overseas the boycott’s impact is tangible. That was the case for the 2014 Sao Paulo biennial. “It was right after the [Gaza] war in the summer, relations between Israel and Brazil were tense,” explains Tamir. “The biennial is one of the biggest art events in the world, and [last] year it was curated by a group that included two Israeli curators, Galit Eilat and Oren Sagiv. The biennial requested support from the Israeli Embassy in Brazil, along with all the other embassies, and Israel gave money. A few days before the opening, objections were raised. A compromise was reached, according to which the money from the Israeli Foreign Ministry would be used only by Israeli artists taking part in the biennial. That way the foreign artists would ostensibly not be benefiting from money that came from Israel, Tamir says.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Another example of the cultural boycott at the height of Operation Protective Edge was the cancellation of Belu-Simion Fainaru’s participation in the International Canakkale Biennial, in Turkey. In a letter to the Israeli sculptor, the artistic director of the biennial, Beral Madra, explained that given the cultural-political-social situation in Turkey Fainaru’s presence or the display of his work at the event would be inappropriate. She noted that even though the message of his work was pro-peace, it related to Jerusalem’s Western Wall, and that the organizers of this biennial were determined to avoid the inclusion of any work containing national or religious symbolism.</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Noam Segal, who in the past several years has curated a number of exhibitions that have included artists from abroad, says the refusal to show in Israel can take many forms. “I wanted to invite Laure Provost, </span></b></div>
<b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the winner of the 2013 Turner Prize, to participate in an exhibition I’m working on, but she is a signatory to the boycott and won’t come. The same goes for Mark Leckey, who said it in a different way. Other artists have not officially signed on to the boycott but don’t respond to the invitation and it’s clear they don’t want to come. In September an exhibition I curated opened in Los Angeles and most of the artists were Israeli. There were a few journalists who wrote me to say they were impressed by the exbibition, but due to the current situation they preferred not to write reviews of exhibitions that were identified as Israeli.”</span></b><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One of the goals of Thursday’s conference is to raise awareness about the existence of the boycott. “It’s a very sensitive subject that gets people fired up, for good and for ill,” says Tamir. “Within our group, some people support the boycott and some oppose it, and there are those who are aware of the contradiction, since it’s difficult to boycott yourself. We ask ourselves how is it possible to work in the field of art, that tries to be international, and at the same time to deal with a boycott from outside.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tamir draws a connection between the boycott and the threats to freedom of expression within Israel. “Israel is already a kind of an island. On the other hand, within Israel there is more hostility toward freedom of expression. What the war in the summer showed us was very scary. A boycott is a type of freedom of expression. Whether or not you agree with it, people have the right to practice it and to call for it. To discuss the issue of whether it’s justified or not is a different matter, but even if people have controversial views they have a right to express them.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“It’s very difficult for someone who supports both freedom of expression and freedom of action. There’s a contradiction. That’s the main issue of the boycott. If we remain completely alone here, with only our own voices and no international artist agrees to exhibit here, what would that tell us?”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One of the speakers at the conference, Hila Cohen-Schneiderman, a curator at the Petah Tikva Museum of Art who also works independently, plans to offer a proposal she calls “utopian.” She argues that Israel is already disconnected from the Arab world, preferring to “think that we belong to Europe or the United States.” The Arab boycott only reinforces this tendency. Instead she proposes that “if Arab artists were to exhibit here and make us see the place we belong to, it would be much more effective.” In that spirit she wanted to include in an upcoming exhibition a piece by Rabia Mroue,a Lebanese artist, about the civil war in Syria.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“I asked him for permission to show the work and never got an answer. In the end I came to understand in a roundabout way that the answer was negative. I see it as vital for the Israeli audience to see what is happening in Syria. If an artist like James Turrell were to boycott Israel but an artist like Rabia Mroue were to show his works here, we would benefit much more.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Udi Edelman, a curator at the Israeli Center for Digital Art who also works independently and is one of the conference organizers, says he finds it difficult to either support fully or reject fully the idea of the boycott.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Going all the way with it means deciding that we will no longer invite international artists, but that is a very difficult think and it isn’t necessarily the right decision. On the other hand, it would be interesting to have international artists consider these questions more deeply. If they boycott, they should do it openly or go deeper into the questions of our existence here.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>February 2014</b></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Notable international cartoonists, including </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: normal; text-align: start;">Siné, Tardi and Joe Sacco, </span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">mobilize against the presence of Sodastream at the International Festival of Comics in </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: normal; text-align: start;">Angoulême, France. Ninety-nine cartoonists sign onto an open letter asking the organizers to join in the boycott of Sodastream [4]. </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: normal; text-align: left;">Other famous names in contemporary comics that signed include Alison Bechdel (“Fun Home”), Kate Beaton (“Hark A Vagrant”), Ben Katchor (“The Jew of New York”), Peter Kuper (“Spy vs. Spy”), and Jaime Hernandez.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[1] </span><a href="http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/moddi-cancels-tel-aviv-gig-after-appeal-gaza" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ttp://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/moddi-cancels-tel-aviv-gig-after-appeal-gaza</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[2]</span><a href="http://mondoweiss.net/2014/01/video-checkpoint-jasiri" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://mondoweiss.net/2014/01/video-checkpoint-jasiri</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[3] In the French Press: </span></div>
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<a href="http://www.lecourrierdelatlas.com/663418022014Titi-Robin-renonce-a-jouer-a-Jerusalem.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.lecourrierdelatlas.com/663418022014Titi-Robin-renonce-a-jouer-a-Jerusalem.html</span></a></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; line-height: 1.15;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[4] </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333330154419px; line-height: 9.96666622161865px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><u>http://lettertoangouleme.tumblr.com/</u></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[5] </span><a href="http://www.peoplesbookscoop.org/?page_id=1333" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.peoplesbookscoop.org/?page_id=1333</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[6] </span><a href="http://www.salon.com/2014/05/01/pink_floyds_roger_waters_and_nick_mason_why_rolling_stones_shouldnt_play_in_israel/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.salon.com/2014/05/01/pink_floyds_roger_waters_and_nick_mason_why_rolling_stones_shouldnt_play_in_israel/</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[7] </span><a href="http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/beyonce-denies-shes-going-israel" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/beyonce-denies-shes-going-israel</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[8] </span><a href="http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/grace-lee-boggs-danny-glover-object-film-screening-tel-aviv" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/grace-lee-boggs-danny-glover-object-film-screening-tel-aviv</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[9] </span><a href="http://www.tikkun.org/tikkundaily/2014/05/29/an-open-letter-from-the-shondes/?utm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.tikkun.org/tikkundaily/2014/05/29/an-open-letter-from-the-shondes/?utm</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[10] </span><a href="http://hyperallergic.com/131497/over-100-artists-and-intellectuals-call-for-withdrawal-from-creative-time-exhibition/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://hyperallergic.com/131497/over-100-artists-and-intellectuals-call-for-withdrawal-from-creative-time-exhibition/</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[11] </span><a href="http://www.kadaitcha.com/2014/07/03/talib-kweli-solidarity-with-those-who-live-it-is-a-stronger-statement/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.kadaitcha.com/2014/07/03/talib-kweli-solidarity-with-those-who-live-it-is-a-stronger-statement/</span></a></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4ukBCCyczA#t=244" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4ukBCCyczA#t=244</span></a></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[13] In Hebrew </span><a href="http://www.mako.co.il/music-news/world/Article-5ee5eaf4a3c2741006.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.mako.co.il/music-news/world/Article-5ee5eaf4a3c2741006.htm</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[14] </span><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/jul/14/neil-young-crazy-horse-israel-concert-gaza-conflict" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/jul/14/neil-young-crazy-horse-israel-concert-gaza-conflict</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[15] </span><a href="http://www.salon.com/2014/07/31/tweet_and_delete_on_gaza_celebrity_courage_and_cowardice_over_social_media/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.salon.com/2014/07/31/tweet_and_delete_on_gaza_celebrity_courage_and_cowardice_over_social_media/</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[16] </span><a href="http://www.bdsmovement.net/2014/nobel-celebrities-call-for-military-embargo-12316#sthash.iwrtjr3q.dpuf" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.bdsmovement.net/2014/nobel-celebrities-call-for-military-embargo-12316#sthash.iwrtjr3q.dpuf</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[17] </span><a href="http://www.ebony.com/news-views/why-black-people-must-stand-with-palestine-402#axzz37pFwSTIv" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.ebony.com/news-views/why-black-people-must-stand-with-palestine-402#axzz37pFwSTIv</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[18] </span><a href="http://www.hotpress.com/Sinead-OConnor/news/Sinad-OConnor-I-wont-play-in-Israel/11954250.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.hotpress.com/Sinead-OConnor/news/Sinad-OConnor-I-wont-play-in-Israel/11954250.html</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/reviews/sinead-oconnor-london-roundhouse-gig-review-gaza-robin-williams-its-all-here-from-a-singer-who-refuses-to-skirt-issues-9667054.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/reviews/sinead-oconnor-london-roundhouse-gig-review-gaza-robin-williams-its-all-here-from-a-singer-who-refuses-to-skirt-issues-9667054.html</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[19] </span><a href="http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/amena-saleem/rock-stars-peter-gabriel-and-bobby-gillespie-urge-arms-embargo-israel" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/amena-saleem/rock-stars-peter-gabriel-and-bobby-gillespie-urge-arms-embargo-israel</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[20] </span><a href="http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/amena-saleem/brian-eno-joins-criticism-bbcs-bias-against-palestinians" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/amena-saleem/brian-eno-joins-criticism-bbcs-bias-against-palestinians</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[21] </span><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/massive-attack-makes-gaza-statement-using-headline-stage-at-longitude-festival-9622836.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/massive-attack-makes-gaza-statement-using-headline-stage-at-longitude-festival-9622836.html</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[22] </span><a href="http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/alexander-billet/watch-global-hip-hop-call-israel-boycott" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/alexander-billet/watch-global-hip-hop-call-israel-boycott</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[23] </span><a href="https://storify.com/jvplive/celebrities-speak-out-on-gaza" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://storify.com/jvplive/celebrities-speak-out-on-gaza</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[24] </span><a href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/why-young-hollywood-is-more-721353" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/why-young-hollywood-is-more-721353</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[25] </span><a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/miriamberger/selena-gomez-instagrammed-a-picture-in-support-of-palestinia" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.buzzfeed.com/miriamberger/selena-gomez-instagrammed-a-picture-in-support-of-palestinia</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[26] </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxDYiBls99w" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxDYiBls99w</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[27] </span><a href="http://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/arts/news/edinburgh-fringe-second-israel-funded-show-pulled-1-3498490" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/arts/news/edinburgh-fringe-second-israel-funded-show-pulled-1-3498490</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[29aa] </span><a href="https://twitter.com/MrPeeZee/status/493480856426512385" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://twitter.com/MrPeeZee/status/493480856426512385</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[29bb] </span><a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/promoters-hold-out-hope-for-some-culture-this-summer/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.timesofisrael.com/promoters-hold-out-hope-for-some-culture-this-summer/</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[30] </span><a href="http://keyhani.blog.lemonde.fr/2014/07/17/iran-asghar-farhadi-et-nassrin-sotoudeh-se-mobilisent-contre-le-massacre-a-gaza/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://keyhani.blog.lemonde.fr/2014/07/17/iran-asghar-farhadi-et-nassrin-sotoudeh-se-mobilisent-contre-le-massacre-a-gaza/</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[31] </span><a href="http://www.ipsc.ie/press-releases/irish-artists-pledge-to-boycott-israel-reaches-500-signatures" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.ipsc.ie/press-releases/irish-artists-pledge-to-boycott-israel-reaches-500-signatures</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[32] </span><a href="http://mondoweiss.net/2014/08/genocide-anoushka-shankar" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://mondoweiss.net/2014/08/genocide-anoushka-shankar</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[32a] </span><a href="http://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/121157/tricycle-theatre-refuses-host-uk-jewish-film-festival-over-israeli-sponsorship" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/121157/tricycle-theatre-refuses-host-uk-jewish-film-festival-over-israeli-sponsorship</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[32aa] </span><a href="http://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/irish-director-backs-festival-boycott-over-israeli-sponsorship-1.1890360#.U-QE_lvBMPU.twitter" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/irish-director-backs-festival-boycott-over-israeli-sponsorship-1.1890360#.U-QE_lvBMPU.twitter</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[33] </span><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/russell-brand-calls-for-israel-boycott-comedian-urges-big-businesses-that-facilitate-the-oppression-of-people-in-gaza-to-pull-funding-9668147.html?kdk" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/russell-brand-calls-for-israel-boycott-comedian-urges-big-businesses-that-facilitate-the-oppression-of-people-in-gaza-to-pull-funding-9668147.html?kdk</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[34] </span><a href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/korean-filmmakers-sign-gaza-petition-723383" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/korean-filmmakers-sign-gaza-petition-723383</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[35] </span><a href="http://www.wonderingsound.com/news/lana-del-rey-postpones-tel-aviv-israel-concert/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.wonderingsound.com/news/lana-del-rey-postpones-tel-aviv-israel-concert/</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[36] </span><a href="http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/jimmy-johnson/fidel-castro-alice-walker-bolivian-president-condemn-israel-join-latin-american" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/jimmy-johnson/fidel-castro-alice-walker-bolivian-president-condemn-israel-join-latin-american</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[37] In Norweigan </span><a href="http://www.underskrift.no/vis.asp?Kampanje=5192" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.underskrift.no/vis.asp?Kampanje=5192</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[38] </span><a href="http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/sarah-irving/musicians-condemn-liverpool-councils-g4s-link-citing-abuse-against-palestinians" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/sarah-irving/musicians-condemn-liverpool-councils-g4s-link-citing-abuse-against-palestinians</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[40] </span><a href="http://mecstatement.wordpress.com/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://mecstatement.wordpress.com/</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[41] </span><a href="https://twitter.com/bryanadams/status/501867732875624449" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://twitter.com/bryanadams/status/501867732875624449</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[42] </span><a href="http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/5/33/108885/Arts--Culture/Music/I-have-the-right-not-to-perform-in-a-country-which.aspx" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/5/33/108885/Arts--Culture/Music/I-have-the-right-not-to-perform-in-a-country-which.aspx</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[43]</span><a href="http://www.screendaily.com/news/ken-loach-calls-for-israel-boycott/5076553.article?blocktitle=LATEST-FILM-NEWS&contentID=40562" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.screendaily.com/news/ken-loach-calls-for-israel-boycott/5076553.article?blocktitle=LATEST-FILM-NEWS&contentID=40562</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[45] </span><a href="http://news.artnet.com/art-world/artists-call-on-bienal-de-sao-paulo-to-reject-israeli-funds-updated-88974" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://news.artnet.com/art-world/artists-call-on-bienal-de-sao-paulo-to-reject-israeli-funds-updated-88974</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[46] </span><a href="http://en.bellebeirut.com/behind-beirut/lebanese-singers-tweet-support-gaza/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://en.bellebeirut.com/behind-beirut/lebanese-singers-tweet-support-gaza/</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[47] </span><a href="http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/video-activists-assaulted-arrested-protesting-israeli-theater-amsterdam" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/video-activists-assaulted-arrested-protesting-israeli-theater-amsterdam</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[48] </span><a href="http://adalahny.org/adalah-web-action/1194/open-letter-brooklyn-book-festival-re-israeli-sponsorship" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://adalahny.org/adalah-web-action/1194/open-letter-brooklyn-book-festival-re-israeli-sponsorship</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: x-small; line-height: 1.15;">[49a] </span><span style="color: #444444; font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 14.9499998092651px;">http://subscriber.djmag.com/content/mr-c-starts-boycott-israel</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[50] </span><a href="http://www.lecourrier.ch/declaration2014" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.lecourrier.ch/declaration2014</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and </span><a href="http://www.bds-info.ch/index.php/fr/home-fr/158-bds-fr/campagnes/bds-suisse/boycott-culturel-academique/921-640-swiss-artists-demand-that-the-swiss-federal-council-suspend-military-cooperation-with-israel" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.bds-info.ch/index.php/fr/home-fr/158-bds-fr/campagnes/bds-suisse/boycott-culturel-academique/921-640-swiss-artists-demand-that-the-swiss-federal-council-suspend-military-cooperation-with-israel</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[51]</span><a href="http://www.haaretz.com/life/music-theater/1.621971" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> http://www.haaretz.com/life/music-theater/1.621971</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[52] </span><a href="http://www.upjb.be/communiques/article/l-upjb-ne-participera-pas-au-brussels-jewish" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.upjb.be/communiques/article/l-upjb-ne-participera-pas-au-brussels-jewish</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and </span><a href="http://www.kadaitcha.com/2014/10/23/international-cultural-venues-encouraged-to-boycott-israeli-government-funding/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.kadaitcha.com/2014/10/23/international-cultural-venues-encouraged-to-boycott-israeli-government-funding/</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[53] </span><a href="http://www.usacbi.org/2014/10/artists-and-intellectuals-including-junot-diaz-chuck-d-and-boots-riley-call-for-boycott-and-divestment-from-israel/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.usacbi.org/2014/10/artists-and-intellectuals-including-junot-diaz-chuck-d-and-boots-riley-call-for-boycott-and-divestment-from-israel/</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[54] </span><a href="http://adalahny.org/adalah-web-action/1202/open-letter-world-music-institute-do-not-present-idan-raichel" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://adalahny.org/adalah-web-action/1202/open-letter-world-music-institute-do-not-present-idan-raichel</span></a></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comPalestine31.952162 35.23315400000001330.226547500000002 32.651367000000015 33.6777765 37.814941000000012tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4659133313857946584.post-21726803474244111262014-09-06T04:36:00.000-07:002014-09-07T03:58:52.782-07:00Flash Mob for Gaza Sends Powerful Message and Ends to Applause<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">(Bosa, Sardinia) Sounds of bombing, a woman falls to the ground, more bombing, people strewn about the square. A lone trumpeter walks amongst the bodies of young people, men, and women. An interested crowd gathers.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">Families initially react with shock, covering their children's ears, then interest, and finally applause. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">This flash mob tells the story of Israel's massacre of Gaza, in the context of our everyday lives. It is unsettling because it brings home a piece of the horror that Israel inflicted on the entire population of Gaza. The <a href="http://www.mezan.org/en/details.php?id=19514&ddname=IOF&id2=9&id_dept=9&p=center">death toll</a> is an alarming <span style="font-weight: bold; text-align: -webkit-center;">2,168: 521 Children and 297 Women. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">The <a href="http://www.bdsmovement.net/2014/a-call-from-gaza-make-israel-accountable-for-its-crimes-in-gaza-intensify-bds-12627">BDS Movement </a>recently explained:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">...on August 2nd 2014, three days after the occupation forces bombed the designated UN humanitarian shelter in Jabalya refugee camp, killing 20 civilians and wounding at least 150 people as they slept, the US Congress approved $225 million in additional military aid to Israel. The following day, the occupation forces bombed another UN shelter in Rafah killing ten civilians and injuring dozens. Also during the massacre, Germany sold Israel an attack submarine with nuclear capability, and Britain refused to freeze its arms sales to Israel. These and other forms of criminal complicity from world governments and official bodies pave the way for Israel’s ongoing genocidal attacks. It is up to people of conscience and all those who seek peace with justice worldwide to make sure this complicity ends now.</span></span></blockquote>
<span style="color: #444444;">From small port towns like Bosa, Sardinia to New York City: Boycott Israel! </span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4659133313857946584.post-6689225514054558892014-08-22T13:10:00.000-07:002014-08-22T13:47:08.566-07:00OPEN LETTER: Join the Cultural Boycott of Israel, Lady Gaga<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: purple;">Mohammed El Kurd recently wrote this open letter to Lady Gaga, asking her to support the boycott.</span><br />
<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;">Please don’t come to Israel, Lady Gaga. </span></span><span style="color: purple;"><br />
So, I’m a huge fan of yours. I just want to tell you that you absolutely
changed, and saved my life. You helped me accept who I am and help me
find the beauty and the good in me. If it wasn’t for you I wouldn’t be
alive. </span>
<span style="color: purple;"><br />
My name is Mohammed, I’m 16 and I’m from Jerusalem, Palestine. And my
dream is to meet you, but also I have other dreams like: freedom, safety
& having an independent political identity. 67 years ago ‘Israel’
was (and still duh) Palestine, people lived in peace here, just like any
other country. But in 1948 the British government decided to give
Palestine to Israeli people to live in like, ‘it was a land with no
people for people with no land’, but the trouble was is that there is
already people in this land; us, the Palestinians. So during the great
catastrophe 15th of May 1948 (Which is also my birth day, wow) thousands
of Palestinians were brutally murdered, thrown away from their homes,
and a lot of them left the country. </span>
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It was horrible, but the hard part is that it’s still going on. For
example: Israeli settlers and their government took my house, made me
homeless (well I live with my grandma now but yea), among side with
thousands of other Palestinians. But some cases are even harder, a lot
of us get arrested or get killed just for being Palestinians. Our lands
get stolen, our olive trees get demolished and our dreams get torn
apart. And what they say that is their excuse for doing this that
they’re the chosen people of god. But god is no real estate agent, is
he? </span>
<span style="color: purple;"><br />
You sing about love and compassion & how we all should belong
together. Not hurt one another, well, Israel isn’t that it’s a war
criminal. it has nothing to do peace. I do understand that it is not our
fault – your fans here. But boycotting Israel would make such a
difference, arguably. </span>
<span style="color: purple;"><br />
If you do come here, I invite you to my house, because it is my dream to
meet you. But also, because you need to see what has been going on in
here. I want to invite you into the Palestinian spirit. I want you to
see the struggle that we go through. I need you more than anything. It
kills me living in a country where the existence of my identity is
denied. And seeing the person I love the most; you support or just stay
silent about that kills me, it hurts me inside that you may not
understand what’s going on in here, but hey you can always try. The only
person that knows what fire feels like is the person who’s burned. I’ll
be here fighting through every second of my life for my freedom. Please
do the right thing to do. Take a walk in my life. Try walking in my
shoes, what would you do if you, Papa Joe, Cynthia & Natalie got
thrown out of your house, would you sing for the person who stole your
house? </span>
<span style="color: purple;"><br />
Here’s a link for a documentary of me called “My Neighborhood” this was in 2011 and it shows what happened here. <a href="http://www.justvision.org/myneighbourhood/watch" rel="nofollow">http://www.justvision.org/myneighbourhood/watch</a></span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;"><i>SOURCE</i> http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1s21p64</span><br />
<span style="color: purple;">https://twitter.com/sheikhjarrah/status/474878192528793600</span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4659133313857946584.post-32445624888869392202014-08-10T17:43:00.002-07:002014-08-19T23:40:22.793-07:00Israeli Mass Media Portrays Gaza Massacre as Charming Summertime Project for Twenty-Somethings<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.15; white-space: pre-wrap;">Heeding the </span><span style="font-size: 14.857142448425293px; line-height: 9.857142448425293px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Palestinian</span><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.15; white-space: pre-wrap;"> call for a cultural boycott of Israel often takes immense courage, but it also means that in the future, thousands of innocent lives may be spared.<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-49c0d574-c246-966e-1401-a3450a05b81f"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #444444;">Recently, marches in Tel Aviv blocked streets while Israeli youths chanted in favor of mass death amounting to genocide: [1]</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><span style="color: #666666;">Olé, olé, olé-olé-olé</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><span style="color: #666666;">In Gaza there’s no studying</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><span style="color: #666666;">No children are left there…</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #444444;">Another young Israeli bragged that he killed 13 children in Gaza. He used instagram to further threaten the deaths of more people. [2]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #444444;">This <b>chilling video</b> emerged[3], showing soldiers joyously playing</span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.15; white-space: pre-wrap;"> games and eating sushi take-out. Flirty girls who need “refreshing” with outdoor hair-washes </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.15; white-space: pre-wrap;">appear as if they are just one step above a girl-scout camp trip away from mom and dad. (0:55 Yes, they even [my parents] came to visit).</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbrsHszM3Xg" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: x-small;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbrsHszM3Xg</span></span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #444444;">This Israeli media video report depicts Israeli mass murderers as normal. [1] Upbeat music accompanies this video, created for Israel public consumption, and released on 3 Aug 2014 via Israeli Channel 2 in Hebrew. The BDS movement has added English subtitles to expose the blatant disregard for human life as seen on the pert -often jovial- faces of these young Israelis participating in genocide.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #444444;">At 1:17 an Israeli female soldier confirms she with the other 20 female soldiers in that particular military base fire missiles on Gaza every 2 minutes. With such frequency for sure these female soldiers are committing war crimes in which Palestinian babies and mothers are being massacred.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #444444;"><b>Their pleasure in destroying Gaza is shown in their facial expression and language, as well as the messages they inscript on the bombs. </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #444444;">From 2:45 the Israeli propaganda film shows the most banal messages being inscripted on the bombs that will kill Palestinians in Gaza.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #444444;">At 2:57 one of the male soldiers tells about having a birthday (translation: "My birthday, birthday 24, she dedicated a bomb for me" and shows a very long hand written message on a bomb and concludes with "Fantastic.”)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #444444;">At 3:03 one of the female soldiers tells about another bomb message:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #444444;">"On this one I wrote this for not having a shower for a week" </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #444444;">(Hebrew: "על זאת כתבתי: 'זה על זה שלא התקלחתי שבוע")</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #444444;">Would any conscientious musician really want to appease and entertain these mass murderers? When artists and others ignore the Palestinian call for boycott, the message is clear to these young Israeli war criminals: Business as usual. We are not being held to account for our crimes. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[1] </span><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/07/29/israelis-chant-there-are-no-children-left-in-gaza_n_5630601.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/07/29/israelis-chant-there-are-no-children-left-in-gaza_n_5630601.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and </span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/gaza-graveyard-sing-joyful-israeli-youths" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #444444;">http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/gaza-graveyard-sing-joyful-israeli-youths</span></span></a></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[2] </span><span style="font-family: Arial; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://countercurrentnews.com/2014/07/idf-sniper-admits-on-instagram-to-murdering-13-gaza-children/" style="text-decoration: none;">http://countercurrentnews.com/2014/07/idf-sniper-admits-on-instagram-to-murdering-13-gaza-children/</a></span></span></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4659133313857946584.post-56166160054156091032014-08-05T14:06:00.001-07:002014-08-05T14:06:51.066-07:00Internationals Won't Appear at Israeli Boom Box Festival: Event Completely Cancelled<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #444444;">Israeli fans of Wyclef Jean won't be rocking while Gaza is burning on August 14 in Hadera, Israel. The entire Boom-Box Festival has been cancelled. Boom Box organizers claim they will reschedule the event, but international musicians of conscience are urged to join the cultural boycott of Israel and commit to NOT rescheduling. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">Boom Box organizers have openly declared their support for IOF (Israeli Occupation Forces) soldiers that are brutally massacring hundreds of children in Gaza. Boom Box organizers are happy to mix music with Israeli pro-Zionist politics.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">Boom Box had also featured US Rapper Talib Kweli. On July 1, Kweli used twitter to publicly announce his choice to honor the cultural boycott of Israel. Using twitter, he announced </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; line-height: 24px;">“As much as I want to play Israel, I have decided not to in solidarity with Palestinians who will not have access to my show."[1]</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">Last April, Wyclef Jean joined with Israeli musician David Broza to create a video for "peace." Jean sings in the opening track "Same face in the Gaza is the same face I see out in California." [2] Except the Gaza face is being torn apart or burnt by the Israeli face. The faces of over 400 (that number climbs every day) beautiful Palestinian children have been frozen in death by the Israelis. Jean's effort in co-creating "East Jerusalem - West Jerusalem" is categorized as normalization. Israel's crime of apartheid and ethnic cleansing is denied and the Palestinian call for solidarity through the cultural boycott of Israel is ignored. </span><span style="color: #444444;"><br /></span>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">[1] http://www.haaretz.com/life/music-theater/1.603073 and http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/rapper-talib-kweli-takes-stand-palestine-cancels-israel-gig</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">(July 27, 2014) Lana Del Rey is being asked to respect the boycott of Israel, as called for by the majority of <a href="http://www.pacbi.org/etemplate.php?id=1801">Palestinian Civil Society.</a> A new facebook page titled <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Lana-Del-Rey-Dont-Endorse-Apartheid-Israels-Violence/263456960522763">Lana Del Rey, Don't Endorse Apartheid Israel's Violence</a> states:</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">"<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 8.777142524719238px;">American singer, Lana del Rey is expected to perform in today's Sun City --Tel Aviv, Israel in August 2014, at the Nokia Arena, tickets for Lana Del Rey are on sale now. It is especially pertinent that Lana cancel her gig and respect calls for a boycott of Israel, given that Israel is massacring hundreds of children and innocent civilians in Gaza, an inescapable open-air prison. We seek to let Lana know about the reasons for a boycott on this page."</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Official twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/LanaDelRey">https://twitter.com/LanaDelRey</a></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">New Page link: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Lana-Del-Rey-Dont-Endorse-Apartheid-Israels-Violence/263456960522763">https://www.facebook.com/pages/Lana-Del-Rey-Dont-Endorse-Apartheid-Israels-Violence/263456960522763</a></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4659133313857946584.post-64453305584653816312014-07-21T09:58:00.000-07:002017-07-07T12:59:50.174-07:00Massive Attack Shows Support for Gaza at Longitude 2014<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">The Isle of Dreams trance music festival planned for August 7, 8, and 9 in Israel has been cancelled. Trance music is immensely popular in Israel, and this was a highly anticipated festival featuring the top names in trance music. Several trance artists have been called on to boycott Israel since the inception of <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Tranceapartheid/info">Trance Addicts Against Apartheid </a>in 2013. </span><span style="color: #444444;">The cancellation is welcome by boycott activists because it gives artists more time to learn about Palestine and the BDS movement and decide not to reschedule if they choose to. It also allows Israeli trance fans to realize in a concrete way that life and trance music do not go on as usual when Israel massacres hundreds of refugees in Gaza. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">Folk rock band "America" will not be entertaining Israeli fans on August 7 as planned. They are best known for their 1970's hit "Horse with No Name." All cancellations are welcome. Cancellations allow musicians more time to learn about the plight of the people under siege in Gaza, the call for <a href="http://www.bdsmovement.net/">boycott</a>, and the many reasons BDS is effective as a method to achieve justice for Palestinians living under Israeli occupation and as refugees.</span><br />
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In January this year I wrote a private letter to Neil Young, it was sent via his manager Elliot Roberts' email, I never received a reply of any kind.</div>
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In light of the appalling recent events in Israel and Gaza and my dismay at the the lack of any response from our governments and in a final appeal to Neil's possible attachment to the rights of all human beings, not just the disenfranchised natives of North America, but all human beings all over the world, I am publishing that letter now.</div>
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There are rumors flying about that you are considering doing shows in Tel Aviv this year.</div>
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The picket lines have been crossed in this last year by one or two lightweights from our community but no one of your stature. Woody Guthrie would turn in his grave. Neil Young! You are one of my biggest heroes, you are one of a very short list, you, John Lennon, Woody Guthrie, Huddy Ledbetter, Harry Belafonte, Sam Cooke, Billie Holiday and, like some others, but not many, your songs have always been redolent of love and humanity and compassion for your fellow man and woman. I find it hard to believe that you would turn your back on the indigenous people of Palestine. That you would lend support to, and encourage and legitimize, with your presence, a colonial apartheid regime, largely settled from Europe, that seeks to confine the native people of the land, either in exile or in second class status in reservations and ghettos. </div>
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Please, brother, tell me it ain't so.</div>
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As I recall, back in the day, along with the rest of us (Stevie van Zandt, Bruce, Led Zep etc etc etc etc) you would not "Play In Sun City" I am asking you to stand on the same moral ground now. The late, great, Nelson Mandela lives on in us, we cannot let him down. He was explicit in his position and I quote, " We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians". It is time for "Rock Against Racism" to show some of it's muscle by refusing to lend our names to the whitewashing of the illegal colonization of Palestinian land and the systematic oppression of its indigenous people. Unfortunately the opposition lobby has a lot of muscle too. They spend millions on their "Hasbara"(If like me you have no Hebrew)”Explaining” or to you and me "Propaganda". The propaganda machine is well oiled and ruthless. We, on the other hand, have only our commitment to non-violent resistance to lie down in front of the IDF caterpillar tractors that would raze the native people from the land of Palestine. We stand with those people, and with all the brave people of Israel and Palestine, Jewish and Arab alike who oppose The Israeli Governments brutal policies. We stand with Rachel Corrie, the young American woman who gave her life under the caterpillar's tracks. Please join me and countless other artists all over the world in solidarity with the oppressed and the disenfranchised. It is time to heed the peoples call. People like The Bedouin, the nomadic people of the Negev in the arid south of Israel, please research their plight, one village, Al-Araqib has been destroyed 63 times by IDF Bulldozers. If you are in doubt about any of this, I will go with you to Palestine, and Israel, if they’ll let me in, you will see what I have seen, and then let us figure out the right thing to do.</div>
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By the way I watched your Bridge School concert on YouTube last year, it was very moving, you were, of course magnificent. You had asked me to perform, and as I explained to your management, I would have gladly done so had I not already been committed to The Wall Tour in Europe and Stand Up For Heroes in New York. This year I will be pleased and proud to come and support you if you call. </div>
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With respect, and love.</div>
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Roger Waters.</div>
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Fyi. Nice Christmas present.</div>
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For the 63rd time, Israeli forces have demolished the Bedouin village of al-Araqib, in the Negev, Thursday morning.</div>
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A Ma’an reporter in Beersheba said that bulldozers, escorted by 25 police patrols, raided the village at 9 a.m. and demolished all of its steel houses.</div>
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“Forces of demolition and destruction raided our village in the morning and demolished our houses, for the 63rd time. This is a barbarian assault, as they left residents homeless during wintry weather,” local resident Aziz Sayyah al-Touri told Ma’an. He highlighted that the assault has come following the Israeli announcement to abandon the Prawer Plan in displacing Negev Bedouins. Bedouins claim the are as their ancestral lands, while Israel considers al-Araqib and all Bedouin villages in the Negev illegal. There are about 260,000 Bedouin in Israel, mostly living in and around the Negev, in the arid south. More than half live in unrecognized villages without utilities, with many living in extreme poverty.</div>
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Google “Prawer plan” and follow a few links, you may catch a glimpse of the tip of an extremely large and terrifying iceburg.</div>
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Neil, we’re talking about the occupation, subjugation, dispossession, eviction, ghettoization and possible eventual eradication of a nation.</div>
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You, more than most should find this, taboo, story, more than a little disquieting. </div>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-25bc3b42-175b-94e3-e748-6c01dc73ddb4"><span style="background-color: #ffffcc; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Neil</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #383838; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: #ffffcc; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Young</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #383838; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> has claimed copyright infringement forcing Youtube to remove the video entitled "</span><span style="background-color: #ffffcc; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Neil</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #383838; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: #ffffcc; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Young</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #383838; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> - Honour the Boycott" criticizing </span><span style="background-color: #ffffcc; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Neil</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #383838; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">'s scheduled concert in Israel on July 17. The censored video mashup is part of a campaign calling on </span><span style="background-color: #ffffcc; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Neil</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #383838; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> to honour the Palestinian call for a </span><a href="http://www.pacbi.org/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">cultural boycott of Israel </span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #383838; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and cancel his concert in Tel Aviv. The censored youtube </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZ3wXoawGE0" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">link</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #383838; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> now leads to a blank video with the statement "</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #383838; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by </span><span style="background-color: #ffffcc; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">NeilYoung</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #383838; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">."</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #383838; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Vancouver-based video remixer Gordon Murray said "</span><span style="background-color: #ffffcc; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Neil</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #383838; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: #ffffcc; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Young</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #383838; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is a hero to many progressives for his courageous stands against the </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ilx0urLtKs" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Vietnam</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #383838; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> war, </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95PA5e3BfNI" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Gulf</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #383838; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> war, </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SGTRjrROVI" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">George W. Bush's</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #383838; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> war mongering, and especially his support of indigenous people in their fight against the </span><a href="http://www.honourtheacfn.ca/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tar Sands</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #383838; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and the Keystone XL pipeline. But if </span><span style="background-color: #ffffcc; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Neil</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #383838; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> entertains and whitewashes Apartheid Israel, many people will see him as a </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Disposable_Heroes_of_Hiphoprisy" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Disposable Hero of Hypocrisy</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #383838; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">."</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #383838; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To quote </span><span style="background-color: #ffffcc; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Neil</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #383838; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> back to </span><span style="background-color: #ffffcc; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Neil</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #383838; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: this is your defining moment, you can take a stand on the right side of history or you can make a few bucks… and sell out to Israeli Apartheid. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #383838; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A growing list of progressive musicians are honouring the cultural boycott and refusing to “musicwash” Israel. Less than a week ago, renowned New York rapper </span><a href="http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/rapper-talib-kweli-takes-stand-palestine-cancels-israel-gig" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Talib Kweli</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #383838; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> cancelled his gig in Israel to show "solidarity with Palestinians" - so it's not too late for </span><span style="background-color: #ffffcc; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Neil</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #383838; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> to take a stand.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #383838; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The censored video makes fair use of documentary footage of </span><span style="background-color: #ffffcc; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Neil</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #383838; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: #ffffcc; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Young</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #383838; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">'s </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tov03JeW0RE" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">speech</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #383838; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> to the Reject & Protect Rally against the Keystone XL pipeline in Washington DC on April 26, 2014. In his speech </span><span style="background-color: #ffffcc; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Neil</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #383838; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> claims to stand with the "people of the earth" - farmers and indigenous people. By juxtaposing portions of </span><span style="background-color: #ffffcc; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Neil</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #383838; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">'s speech with video of Palestinian farmers and indigenous people being attacked by Israeli soldiers and military warplanes, the video exposes his hypocrisy in abandoning the Palestinian "people of the earth" despite their direct </span><a href="http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nour-joudah/gaza-farmers-urge-neil-young-not-play-tel-aviv" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">appeal</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #383838; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> to </span><span style="background-color: #ffffcc; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Neil</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #383838; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> to honour the cultural boycott and cancel his concert in Israel.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #383838; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One final question for </span><span style="background-color: #ffffcc; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Neil</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #383838; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> - Why use bullying tactics to assail your fans' freedom of speech instead of engaging with them about the issues involved in breaking the cultural boycott of Israel?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #383838; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The video was mashed-up by Murray who was also a defendant in a 2007 SLAPP suit (Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation) by the Vancouver Sun for producing a parody newspaper that satirised the Sun's anti-Palestinian bias.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #383838; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For more information, please contact Gordon Murray at </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">gordon@freexero.com</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #383838; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #383838; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In 2005, more than 170 grassroots Palestinian organizations called for a global campaign of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against the State of Israel - inspired by the campaign against South African Apartheid. The </span><a href="http://www.bdsmovement.net/call" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #e02021; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">BDS campaign</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #383838; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, including a </span><a href="http://www.pacbi.org/etemplate.php?id=869" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #e02021; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">cultural boycott</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #383838; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, demands that Israel recognize the Palestinian people’s inalienable right to self-determination and fully complies with the precepts of international law.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #383838; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A growing list of progressive musicians are honouring the cultural boycott and refusing to “musicwash” Israel including: Natacha Atlas, Elvis Costello, Brian Eno, Gorillaz, Gil-Scott Heron, Salif Keita, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #383838; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Talib Kweli, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #383838; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Santana, Pete Seeger, Roger Waters, and Stevie Wonder.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #383838; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Israel is confining indigenous Palestinians to </span><a href="http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/12635-noam-chomsky-my-visit-to-gaza-the-worlds-largest-open-air-prison" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #e02021; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">open air prisons</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #383838; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and “</span><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/apr/26/comment" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #e02021; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bantustans</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #383838; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">,” as world leaders and South African anti-Apartheid activists including Jimmy Carter and Archbishop Desmond Tutu are accusing Israel of practicing Apartheid. International expert bodies such as the </span><a href="http://www.russelltribunalonpalestine.com/en/full-findings-of-the-final-session-en" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #e02021; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Russell Tribunal</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #383838; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and the </span><a href="http://www.hsrc.ac.za/en/media-briefs/democracy-goverance-and-service-delivery/report-israel-practicing-apartheid-in-palestinian-territories" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #e02021; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">South African Human Sciences Research Council</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #383838; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> have also declared that Israel is guilty of the international crime of Apartheid.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #383838; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Archbishop Tutu wrote to a South African music group that violated the Palestinian Cultural Boycott of Israel: “Just as we said during apartheid that it was inappropriate for international artists to perform in South Africa in a society founded on discriminatory laws and racial exclusivity, so it would be wrong for Cape Town Opera to perform in Israel.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #383838; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Fair Use: The Transformative Factor (Stanford University Fair Use Website)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #383838; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In a 1994 case, the Supreme Court emphasized this [transformative] factor as being a primary indicator of fair use. At issue is whether the material has been used to help create something new or merely copied verbatim into another work. When taking portions of copyrighted work, ask yourself the following questions:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Has the material you have taken from the original work been transformed by adding new expression or meaning?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Was value added to the original by creating new information, new aesthetics, new insights, and understandings?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #383838; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Roger borrows several quotes from the speech given by the CEO of a logging company. Roger prints these quotes under photos of old-growth redwoods in his environmental newsletter. By juxtaposing the quotes with the photos of endangered trees, Roger has transformed the remarks from their original purpose and used them to create a new insight. The copying would probably be permitted as a fair use</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ilx0urLtKs&authuser=0" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Preview YouTube video Neil Young: Ohio-Palestine mixtape</span></a></div>
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ilx0urLtKs&authuser=0" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Neil Young: Ohio-Palestine mixtape</span></a></div>
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95PA5e3BfNI&authuser=0" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Preview YouTube video Neil Young Don't Play Tel Aviv!</span></a></div>
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SGTRjrROVI&authuser=0" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Preview YouTube video Neil Young - Living With War (Video)</span></a></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4659133313857946584.post-81367188994812532132014-05-22T22:28:00.000-07:002014-05-24T18:31:51.062-07:00Ester Rada of Israel: Why Rada is a Gig to Boycott<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">by</span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/dontplayapartheidisrael?fref=ts" style="background-color: white; color: #dd7700; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; line-height: 11.38499927520752px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">DPAI</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (Don't Play Apartheid Israel)</span><br />
<span id="docs-internal-guid-bbc7e6bc-273b-0790-aafb-8c4b86251766"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Israeli musician Ester Rada is on a <a href="http://www.esterrada.com/#">tour</a> of the US to include four gigs in both California and New York as well as many other states. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="background-color: white; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">The Bio on Ms. Rada's website does not mention the fact that she previously served in the IDF as a singer [1], and that she continues to sing at Israeli state-sponsored events. Her current tour is being sponsored by the Israeli Consulate. [2] On 1 Feb, the official twitter for the state of Israel </span></span><a href="https://twitter.com/Israel/status/429659712360288256" style="font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">tweeted</a><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> <i>"Ester Rada is one of the most </i></span></span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>promising</i></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><i> and #unique artists in #Israel. hear her out"</i> Again on 17 May, Israel's twitter promoted Rada and </span></span><a href="https://twitter.com/Israel/status/467733198043353088" style="font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">tweeted</a><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">, <i>"Meet Ester Rada, Israel's rising #music star."</i> The Israeli consulate in Atlanta also promoted Ms. Rada on </span></span><a href="https://twitter.com/IsraelAtlanta/status/467360548766883840" style="font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">twitter</a><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Israeli government has a long-standing history of using artists like Ms. Rada as part of a clearly whitewashing campaign, designed to distract the global community from Israel's well-documented human rights abuse and war crimes. </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">After the Gaza massacre in 2008-2009, Israel decided to allot an extra $2 million towards "cultural and information diplomacy." Israel's former Deputy Director General for Cultural Affairs, Arye Mekel, was quoted as saying, "We will send well-known novelists and writers overseas, theater companies, exhibits... This way you show Israel's prettier face, so we are not thought of purely in the context of war." [3] </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">The current use by Israel of Ms. Rada can also be interpreted as an effort to cover up Israel's </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">persecution</span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> of African asylum seekers and violent anti-African racism that was outlined in an article by +972 Mag titled:</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>"</b></span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 36px;"><b>A year in review: Anti-African racism and asylum seekers in Israel" </b>[4]</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">The BDS campaign does not oppose any artist based on their nationality, race or religion. Artists such as Ms. Rada are boycotted not because they are Israelis, but because they are <b>willingly complicit</b> in Israeli criminal activities by being part of the government's whitewashing campaign. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; line-height: 36px;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>The BDS campaign</b> is a widely supported, historically proven method of resistance. Among the many high profile artists that have either supported the campaign explicitly, or have cancelled performances per the BDS call, are Roger Waters and Nick Mason of Pink Floyd [5], Grammy-winning jazz artist Cassandra Wilson, Stanley Jordan, Nigel Kennedy, award winning filmmaker Mira Nair, Carlos Santana, Elvis Costello, acclaimed guitarist John Williams, and Pete Seeger. </span></span><span style="color: #444444; line-height: 36px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Professor Stephen Hawking</span><span style="color: #444444; line-height: 36px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, the renowned University of Cambridge physicist and cosmologist, has also joined the academic boycott of Israel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[1]</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 39.599998474121094px;">Self Written Solo EP " Life Happens "-Ester Rada </span></span><span style="color: blue; font-size: x-small;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span><span style="color: blue; font-size: x-small; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://addishappening.com/index.php/addis-view/jazz-up-addis/item/29-ester-rada</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[2] There are many examples showing Rada's sponsorship by the Israeli Consulate, here are just a few: </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A. Consulate General of Israel in Atlanta Annoucement </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">http://embassies.gov.il/atlanta/NewsAndEvents/calendar-of-events/Pages/Ester-Rada-at-the-Atlanta-Jazz-Fest.aspx</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">B. For more, contact Dena Weiss, Director of Public Affairs, Consulate General of Israel to the Southeast </span><span style="line-height: 18px;">http://atlantajewishtimes.com/israeli-musician-ester-rada-take-main-stage-atlanta-jazz-festival/</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 17.920000076293945px;">C. Consulate General of Israel to the Midwest, </span><span style="line-height: 17.920000076293945px;">http://www.citywinery.com/chicago/ester-rada-5-23.html</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">The Consulate General of Israel https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ester-rada-unplugged-tickets-5647002336</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[3] </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: inherit;"><b>After Gaza, Israel Grapples With Crisis of Isolation</b>, NY Times</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: blue;">, 3/18/09</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/19/world/middleeast/19israel.html?_r=</span>0</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;">[4] </span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">http://972mag.com/a-year-in-review-anti-african-racism-and-asylum-seekers-in-israel/72381/</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: x-small;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">[5]http://www.salon.com/2014/05/01/pink_floyds_roger_waters_and_nick_mason_why_rolling_stones_shouldnt_play_in_israel/</span></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4659133313857946584.post-34263309954989146332014-05-09T14:24:00.001-07:002014-05-12T13:53:58.556-07:00An OPEN LETTER to Jay Leno: Support the Boycott of Israel for Palestinian Human Rights<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #444444;">We, at DPAI (Don’t Play Apartheid Israel), along with the undersigned organizations, both in the USA and in Europe, have heard you are to visit Israel for the first time, and that you will be combining a tourist trip with a gig on May 22 as an emcee for the Genesis Award ceremony in Jerusalem.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #444444;">We urge you to please reconsider your plans to accept this invitation. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #444444;">When you take your PR tour of Israel, Jerusalem and the Dead Sea, the ugly side of Israel will be well hidden from your eyes. Part of your tour will not include a stop to talk to the wives and children of the many political prisoners that Israel holds in illegal administrative detention without charges. These men are imprisoned for years and many of them, as well as some women, have undertaken hunger strikes in a bid for justice (A)</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #444444;">Your agenda won’t include a visit to the university students who have had to endure checkpoints within the West Bank by the IOF (Israeli Occupation Forces), often during exams, and up to 2 km long, where up to 8000 Palestinians have to walk in the ditch every day on their way to school or work. (B) </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #444444;">While being hosted by the state you will not be told about the over 30,000 Sudanese and Eritrean African asylum seekers who are in holding camps in the Negev. Netanyahu, with whom you will shake hands at the award ceremony, has determined that these people be kept in prison-like holding facilities in the Negev. (C)</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #444444;">Jay Leno, you have been described as a rare celebrity who is in touch with the working person, would you let photographers snap shots of you chumming around with Netanyahu on stage? That image would be used in the press to normalize the apartheid state of Israel. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #444444;">Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa said: </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“I was bishop of Johannesburg when police would stop our car and want to body-search my wife and children … and I go and I visit the Holy Land and I see things that are a mirror image of the sort of things I experienced under the apartheid.” </span><a href="http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/asked-about-kerry-tutu-says-israel-mirror-image-apartheid" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(D)</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #444444;">Jay Leno, we urge you to consider that your gig as an emcee for the Genesis Award ceremony could be construed as a political act in support of the ethnic cleansing of Jerusalem. Would you wine and dine with the elite of the Israeli state while, just minutes away in occupied East Jerusalem, Palestinians are being deprived by Israel of their right to education, work, and housing? Could you close your eyes to their call for a boycott of Israel when their very homes are being bulldozed down in East Jerusalem? (E)</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Would you take your wife Mavis to the church of the Holy Sepulchre, the Dome of the Rock and Al Aqsa Mosque while they are all under military occupation by Israel? Would Mavis take the time to enquire about Israel’s inhumane treatment of woman? Please take the time to hear the story of </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6yXR5RA8mg" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Nibal</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Nibal lives in Gaza, only 80 miles away from her family in Jenin, but Israel refuses to allow her to visit her family. She missed family weddings and, tragically, the chance to see her youngest sister before she was to die of a serious illness last November. A recent special report by B’Tselem illustrates how Israel’s illegal and inhumane policy affects Palestinian women: </span></span></div>
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<a href="http://electronicintifada.net/content/palestinian-prisoners-health-worsens-after-210-days-refusing-food/12962" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #444444;">http://electronicintifada.net/content/palestinian-prisoners-health-worsens-after-210-days-refusing-food/12962</span></span></a></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">also see </span><a href="http://www.btselem.org/topic/administrative_detention" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.btselem.org/topic/administrative_detention</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> for more information.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(B) Checkpoints and Dignity: Daily Life in Occupied Territories by Mira Dabit </span><a href="http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/mike-friends-blog/checkpoints-and-dignity-daily-life-occupied-territories" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/mike-friends-blog/checkpoints-and-dignity-daily-life-occupied-territories</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #444444;">(C) Netanyahoo Orders Swift Deportation http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/netanyahu-orders-swift-deportation-of-25-000-illegal-african-migrants-1.434190</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #444444;">(D) Asked about Kerry, Tutu says Israel “mirror image” of apartheid</span></span></div>
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<a href="http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/asked-about-kerry-tutu-says-israel-mirror-image-apartheid" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #444444;">http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/asked-about-kerry-tutu-says-israel-mirror-image-apartheid</span></span></a></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #444444;">(E) Palestinians Protest Home Demolitions In Occupied Jerusalem</span></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.imemc.org/article/66992" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #444444;">http://www.imemc.org/article/66992</span></span></a></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(F) </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Special B’Tselem project: Women illustrators depict stories of Palestinian women in split Gaza-West Bank families </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><a href="http://www.btselem.org/press_releases/20140306_so_near_and_yet_so_far_comics" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.btselem.org/press_releases/20140306_so_near_and_yet_so_far_comics</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and Nibal’s story on youtube at </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6yXR5RA8mg" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6yXR5RA8mg</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(G) BORN AT QALANDIA CHECKPOINT </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://visualizingpalestine.org/infographic/checkpoint-births" style="text-decoration: none;">http://visualizingpalestine.org/infographic/checkpoint-births</a></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Letter also published at </span></b><a href="http://www.pacbi.org/etemplate.php?id=2427"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://www.pacbi.org/etemplate.php?id=242</span></b>7</a></h2>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4659133313857946584.post-35666575439756869502014-04-22T13:04:00.001-07:002014-04-22T13:04:35.219-07:00Distinguished Professor Warren Buckland Respects the Academic Boycott of Israel<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">Distinguished professor, author, and editor <span style="line-height: 18.239999771118164px;"><a href="http://arts.brookes.ac.uk/staff/warrenbuckland.html">Warren Buckland</a> , who teaches film theory, contemporary Hollywood cinema, and film narratology, has decided to uphold Palestinian human rights by declining </span>to participate as a keynote speaker at the “10th International Tel Aviv Colloquium on Cinema and Television Studies: Cinematic Traces of Things to Come,” a conference sponsored by Tel Aviv University scheduled for June 8-11, 2014.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">This colloquium seeks to invite its participants to lend their international scholarly credentials to an Israeli academic institution, and in effect to cooperate with the academic normalization of Israel’s human and civil rights violations of its Palestinian citizens. The colloquium touts itself as a "Research Workshop of the Israel Science Foundation."</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 21.999990463256836px;">Tel Aviv University is complicit in Israel’s unequal treatment of Palestinians, the majority of whom are citizens of the Israeli state. Tel Aviv </span></span><span style="line-height: 21.999990463256836px;">University</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 21.999990463256836px;"> routinely suppresses political dissent, some recent manifestations are documented in the</span></span><em style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 21.999990463256836px;"> Electronic Intifada</em><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 21.999990463256836px;"> (</span></span><a href="http://electronicintifada.net/content/tel-aviv-university-bans-palestinian-speaker/13307" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 21.999990463256836px; text-decoration: none;">http://electronicintifada.net/content/tel-aviv-university-bans-palestinian-speaker/13307</a><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 21.999990463256836px;">) and </span></span><em style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 21.999990463256836px;">Ha’aretz</em><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 21.999990463256836px;"> (</span></span><a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/.premium-1.584153" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 21.999990463256836px; text-decoration: none;">http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/.premium-1.584153</a><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 21.999990463256836px;">). </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">It is hoped that <span style="background-color: transparent;">Professor </span><span style="background-color: transparent; line-height: 18.239999771118164px;">Warren Buckland's </span>refusal to participate in the colloquium will encourage necessary further discussion of BDS and the Academic and Cultural Boycott at Tel Aviv University and in film and media studies.</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4659133313857946584.post-67662199600061545412014-04-05T20:04:00.001-07:002014-04-08T17:43:37.400-07:00OPEN LETTER to Neil Young from a farmer in Gaza<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">Dear Neil Young,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">My name is Nasser Abu Said, I am a farmer in the Gaza Strip, Johr Al Deak.</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.85em;">We were poor but we had a family and we had a life, even if we lived by the Israeli border where incursions and regular shooting at our farm workers from Israeli soldiers and jeeps limited how much we could farm there. They knew who we were, it is open land, and they did not attack us during Cast Lead in 2009.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">Then, on a quiet day in July 2010 my wife Na’eema and 5 children were enjoying the sunshine. They fired 5 tank shells and a flechette shell at our house. My five children were there and my wife Na’eema ran outside to bring in Jaber the youngest. She was hit by the nails of the flechette shell and I could hear small noises coming from her. I knew she was dying. For hours the Israeli military prevented an ambulance from coming. The children watched as she lay dying in front of their eyes. I was holding myself in, especially in front of the children. The children were crying hysterically and some had wet themselves. I lost my wife and the children have never recovered.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">They attacked again with missiles in April 2011, this time burying 2 of my children in the home, injuring others but we all survived. We gave up once the house was half destroyed a second time, and have been living in tents ever since.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">By going and entertaining the Israeli audience, many of whom will have committed similar atrocities while in uniform, you are giving a green light to Israel, telling them its business as usual, even if my story has happened so many times in Gaza. Is the blood of my wife not worth anything? There is a chance to help make a difference and joining the boycotts until Israel stops ruining families through occupation and siege, like they did for mine.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">The international community must do something and it’s up to people of conscience to lead, so that what happened to my wife and family does not happen to any other farmers in Gaza.</span></div>
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<a href="http://mondoweiss.net/2011/06/a-family-in-gaza-struggles-to-rebuild-following-repeated-israeli-attacks.html"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><b>A family in Gaza struggles to rebuild following repeated Israeli attacks http://mondoweiss.net/2011/06/a-family-in-gaza-struggles-to-rebuild-following-repeated-israeli-attacks.html</b></span></a></div>
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<span style="color: #365da0; font-family: inherit; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/Neil.Young.WhyPlay.Apartheid.Israel" style="color: #365da0; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Neil Young, Tell Me Why You Would Play for Apartheid Israel</a></span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">There are 2 petitions you can sign: <a href="http://cjpme.nationbuilder.com/neil_young" style="color: #365da0; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://cjpme.nationbuilder.com/neil_young</a> (signed by nearly 7,000), and <a href="http://ijvcanada.org/campaign/palestinian-civil-society-call-for-bds/neil-young-dont-play-israel/" style="color: #365da0; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://ijvcanada.org/campaign/palestinian-civil-society-call-for-bds/neil-young-dont-play-israel/</a></span></div>
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