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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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Meg Ryan and Dustin Hoffman miss Jerusalem film festival after Gaza raid
‘It was clear it had something to do with what had happened,’ says organiser after stars pulled out following flotilla attacks * Ben Child * guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 7 July 2010 12.17 BST Hollywood actors Meg Ryan and Dustin Hoffman cancelled plans to attend the Jerusalem film festival following Israel’s raid on the Gaza-bound aid flotilla […]
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‘Hope’ Floats: Hey Hollywood, Time to Put Your Money Where Your Morality Is
A coalition of nearly twenty American human rights and peace groups has joined the global justice community and numerous foreign governments in vowing to send more humanitarian aid ships to break the illegal Israeli blockade of Gaza this coming Fall. The coalition, united under the mantle US To Gaza, includes activist organizations such as CodePink, […]
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Leftfield, Don’t Cross the BDS Picket Line
“How many lives can they take, till we break?” “How many homes set alight, till we fight?” Dear Leftfield, We, a group of Israeli citizens, are writing to you today, as your words of protest resonate with their relevance in light of the deadly raid on a flotilla attempting to break the illegal siege and […]
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Johnny Rotten you ain’t no human being if you play the Israeli fascist regime
Johnny Rotten, you ain”t no human being if you play the Israeli fascist regime. It will “make you a moron” and you will have “no future”. John Lydon, “Don”t be told about what you want” and “Don”t be told about what you need” by the Israeli regime. You “wanna go to new belsen” – Gaza […]
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