• Petition: Call on Irish dancers to respect cultural boycott of Israel

    Sign the online petition: https://www.change.org/p/carey-academy-oidance-seamus-aine-o-se-don-t-dance-for-israel-don-t-shame-our-name-call-off-your-participation-in-the-1st-israeli-feis-which-ignores-the-appeal-of-the-palestinian-people-to-boycott-divest-and-sanction-bds-the-apartheid-state-of-israel An Open Appeal to Carey Academy, Seamus & Aine O”Se, @OIDance, Anthony Davis, An Coimisiún le Rincí­ Gaelacha and all Irish Dancers at home in Ireland and worldwide. The Palestinian activist community based in Ireland has recently learned of your intentions to hold the “First Israeli Feis” in Tel Aviv on […]

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  • Irish band Dervish pulls out of Israel concerts

    As reported by Ali Abunimah at the Electronic Intifada: The Irish band Dervish announced today that it has pulled out of a series of Irish music concerts in Israel this June, so as not to violate calls for the cultural boycott of Israel. “At the time we agreed to these performances we were unaware there […]

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  • Irish Gardai break up peaceful cultural boycott protest

    The Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign held a cultural boycott picket outside “Israeli Film Days,” which was attacked and forcibly removed by the Gardai. A protest outside the Israeli Embassy sponsored “Israeli Film Days” in Temple Bar turned acrimonious this evening when Gardai broke up a peaceful demonstration by pro-Palestinian activists outside the venue. Citing Section […]

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  • USACBI Twitter Alert: Tell Riverdance not to dance for apartheid!

    Will you tell Riverdance that entertaining apartheid is wrong?! Ask the cast and crew of Riverdance to join their set designer, Robert Ballagh, who refuses to entertain apartheid by participating in the show’s three-city tour of Israel. See letters from Ballagh and Irish Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaigners telling the show to support Palestinian rights […]

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