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Celebrities cultural boycotting Israel
The issue of Israeli settlements has captured attention far beyond the arena of international politics. Several celebrities have now thrown their weight behind what is being termed a “cultural boycott” against further building on Palestinian land. But with Israel’s construction freeze due to expire at the end of the month, there are doubts that these […]
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Open Letter to Filmmaker Stephen Frears
DON”T NORMALIZE APARTHEID, WITHDRAW FROM HAIFA 2010 September 18th, 2010 Dear Stephen Frears: As fellow artists who have been critical of the state of Israel”s treatment of the Palestinian people, we were surprised to learn that your film “Tamara Drew” is scheduled to open the Haifa International Film Festival of 2010 (HIFF). While unable to […]
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Open Letter to Joanna Newsom
Sep. 18, 2010 Dear Joanna Newsom, We are members of Boycott! – a group of Israeli citizens, Jews and Palestinians, who support the Palestinian call to boycott Israel as means of bringing to an end the murderous, systematic oppression of an entire population, which occurs daily in our name. The news of your scheduled performance […]
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Stephen Frears and the Haifa Film Festival
To: Mr. Stepehen Frears (Copies: Israeli and International Media) Dear Stephen Frears, We are a group of Israeli citizens and British citizens. We write this letter to you just a few days before your film, Tamara Drewe, will open the 26th Haifa International Film Festival, which will take place from September 23 – 30, 2010. […]
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Why we are boycotting the Batsheva Dance Company
by Adam Horowitz on September 17, 2010 The following is an open letter to the Batsheva Dance Company from two groups organizing a boycott of its upcoming shows in New York City: Dear Batsheva Dance Company, We are a group of New York-based human rights activists and artists calling for a boycott of your performances […]
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Boycott!’s letter to Pete Seeger
30 August 2010 Dear Pete Seeger, We are members of an Israeli group called “Boycott! supporting the Palestinian call for boycott divestment and sanctions (BDS) from within”. We are appealing to you because of commitment you have demonstrated during many years to social justice. We have recently heard that you plan to participate this November […]
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Dear John Lee Hooker, Jr.
It has come to our attention that you are scheduled to perform in the city of Tel Aviv. As a group of Israeli citizens who object the long and brutal oppression that our state inflicts on the Palestinian people that are held under its sway, we urge you to cancel this show. Indeed, we hope […]
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An Open Letter from Besieged Gaza to Pete Seeger: Don’t Legitimize Apartheid
Besieged Gaza, 15 September, 2010 Dear Mr. Seeger, We, the isolated and evidently still forgotten Palestinians from the Gaza Bantustan, are astonished and upset to learn that someone who in the past has shown solidarity with our millions who lost their houses to Israeli ethnic cleansing, now plans to join an initiative from a group […]
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Palestine’s Gain is Lebanon’s Pain
by Greg Felton / September 13th, 2010 The greatest effects of the Cast Lead massacre and the murders aboard the aid ship Mavi Marmara have been the confirmation of Israel as a criminal state, and the outpouring of overwhelming support for Palestinians as victims of Jewish fascism. The Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement has become so […]
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The Thin Green Line: It’s Not Just the Settlements (or the Occupation), Stupid!
Because Silence is Complicity! By Nima Shirazi* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz “Before their eyes we turn into our homestead the land and villages in which they and their forefathers have lived…We are a generation of settlers, and without the steel helmet and gun barrel, we shall not be able to plant a tree or […]
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