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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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Open letter to Anna-Sofie von Otter
Dear Anna-Sofie Von Otter, As a classical musician and a longstanding admirer of yours, I am horrified to learn that you propose to perform in Tel Aviv next month. I understand that your personal background – the honourable role of your father in attempting to awaken the world to the reality of the Nazi extermination […]
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Dear Pete Seeger
August 31st, 2010 Dear Pete Seeger, As artists and activists, we have long respected your work and commitment to freedom, justice and equality.? Thus, we were surprised to learn that you are scheduled to appear in the Arava Institute”s “With Earth and Each Other” program. This event actually hinders activism for equal rights and justice, […]
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Pete Seeger – Seeger Urged To Scrap Israel Show
Folk music legend PETE SEEGER has been asked to abandon an upcoming concert in Israel and show his support for a Palestinian-led cultural boycott of the nation. The singer/songwriter is billed to perform at the With Earth and Each Other: A Virtual Rally for a Better Middle East – an event organised by the Arava […]
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Pete Seeger urged to withdraw support for ethnic cleansers of the JNF
I have to admit I was shocked when I first saw that Pete Seeger was lined up to play a gig for one of the organisations most responsible for the instigation and covering up of zionist ethnic cleansing of the indigenous population of Palestine. Even those artists who play gigs in Israel can usually come […]
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Folk Music Legend Pete Seeger Urged to Abandon Israel Event
Adalah-NY Media Contact: info[at]adalahny.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 10, New York, NY – Folk music icon Pete Seeger has been urged by over 40 organizations, along with musicians close to him, to cancel his participation in a November internet event organized by the Israeli groups the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies, the Jewish National Fund […]
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Why Some Jewish Stars Support Israeli Artistic Boycott
By Nathan Guttman Published September 08, 2010, issue of September 17, 2010. Washington – Sixty-six years ago, Theodore Bikel, then a young actor in what would become the State of Israel, co-founded Tel Aviv”s Cameri Theatre. Today, Bikel is one of America”s iconic Jewish actors and folk singers, and is taking sides in a debate […]
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