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Thank You, Leftfield!
Boycott! would like to thank Leftfield and Neil Barnes in particular for cancelling Leftfield’s scheduled performance in Israel and refusing to entertain apartheid. Leftfield have demonstrated courage and humanity in this decision, and we hope others will follow and respect the Palestinian Call for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israel until there’s freedom and justice […]
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Jeff Beck, Don’t Play Apartheid Israel!
July 9th, 2010 Dear Jeff Beck, We are a group of Israeli citizens who respect and promote human rights for all. We call on you to make a conscientious and politically important decision to cancel your performance in Israel, scheduled for October 5th, 2010. We would like you to consider the following: Palestinians in the […]
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Message to Israelis who oppose BDS – go to Bil’in and see for yourself
by Itamar Shaaltiel on July 22, 2010 The first time I stepped into a settlement was during my military service. I did a job that let me go home every night, but every now and then we were required to do something they called AVTASH, or SetSec: settlement security. I was a guard in Ganim, […]
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Interview About Johnny Rotten Protest Leeds O2 Academy Friday 7pm 23 July 2010
Leeds PSC’s Andy Brown interviewed on BBC Radio Leeds about the planned protest at Johnny Rotten’s PiL gig at Leeds’ O2 Academy on Friday night. Find out more at the Facebook page: http://tinyurl.com/jrotten and on our blog: http://readingpsc.org.uk/2010/07/johnny-rotten-protest-by-leeds-psc-7pm-23-july/
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Jeff Beck: Please support the boycott against apartheid Israel Join
Jeff Beck is scheduled to play Israel on October 5. We would like to persuade him to join the cultural boycott called by the people of Palestine, and prevent apartheid Israel from using his performance as a propaganda coup. For more information see http://pacbi.org Jeff’s blog is at http://www.jeffbeck.com/blog.php if you would like to tell […]
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BDS Success! Leftfield has canceled Heineken Music Conference
One of the 3 at the “Heineken Music Conference” on 31 August in Tel Aviv has CANCELED!!! Now that Leftfield canceled, only 2 are still booked to play there: Rotten/Lydon/PiL and LCD Soundsystem. Leftfield announced this: “Leftfield Tour Unfortunately Leftfield will not be able to perform at the Heineken Music Conference on the 31st August […]
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Johnny Rotten: “Rise” against racism, boycott Israel
Open Letter, Palestinian Students’ Campaign for the Academic Boycott of Israel, University Teachers’ Association in Palestine, 20 July 2010 The following letter to British musician John Lydon, aka Johnny Rotten, who is scheduled to perform in Tel Aviv next month, was issued on 18 July 2010 by the Palestinian Students’ Campaign for the Academic Boycott […]
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Open letter from Lebanon to Diana Krall: Don’t entertain an apartheid state!
17 July 2010 Dear Ms. Krall, We learned, with great enthusiasm, that you would be performing in Lebanon on August 2nd. Many of us were excited about finally getting the opportunity to hear you live, since we had enjoyed your music for years. However, when we later learned that you are planning to perform in […]
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Johnny Rotten invokes Clause 2 of the Israel apologists’ charter
There’s a piece on Johnny Rotten in today’s Independent. You have to get to the end to find what an ignorant racist he has become over the decades since supporting the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa. I remember a National Front supporter in a pub back in the seventies praising a report in the National […]
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Open Letter to John Lydon from Gaza: “˜Rise’ against the Racism
Besieged Gaza, Occupied Palestine, July.18.2010 Dear John Lydon, We are academics and students from Gaza representing more than 10 academic institutions therein. Our parents and grandparents are refugees who were expelled from their homes by the nascent Israeli army in the 1948 Nakba. We have since lived in the ghetto of the Gaza Strip refugee […]
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