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US Social Forum cancels exploitative Zionist workshop
Press release, “Al-Awda, NY”, Arab American Action Network, Arab Resource and Organizing Center, Arab American Union Members Council, Arab Youth Organization, Bay Area Campaign to End Israeli Apartheid, Desis Rising and Moving, Palestine Youth Network, US Palestinian Community Network, Middle East Children’s Alliance, South West Asia North Africa Bay Area Queers, General Union of Palestine […]
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Wave Of Cultural Terrorism Rocks Israel
Three western musical acts, The Pixies, The Klaxons, and Gorillaz, have canceled their appearances in Israel in light of Israel”s massacre and attack on the Freedom Flotilla last week. The cancellation prompted Israelis to decry the isolation as “cultural terrorism.” Palestinians have resisted Israeli Apartheid and oppression in all possible ways. The goal has always […]
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Open letter from Lebanon to DJ Tiesto: Don’t entertain an outlaw state!
21 June 2010 Dear DJ Tiesto, We read with great regret that you will be performing in Israel (July 2) before heading to Lebanon (July 3). As you know, music cannot be isolated from politics. A visit to Israel, particularly now, is viewed by Israel, and internationally, as implicit support for Israeli policies and indifference […]
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Elton John: No-one will stop me playing in Israel
By Jessica Elgot, June 18, 2010 Elton John: ‘I won’t boycott Israel like other artists” Elton John has performed a triumphantly successful concert to nearly 50,000 cheering fans in Ramat Gan, telling Israelis: “Nobody gonna stop me from playing here, baby”. The country”s music fans have suffered several high profile cancellations, including bands such as […]
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Elton John aside, Israelis feel growing isolation
By ARON HELLER (AP) TEL AVIV, Israel – Pounding his piano in blue-tinted sunglasses before nearly 50,000 screaming fans, Elton John took center stage in a battle over Israel’s image. The legendary British rocker’s concert on Thursday night followed a string of cancellations by artists like Elvis Costello and the Pixies. Resisting a growing wave […]
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Irish Singer Concert In Israel Canceled
Thursday June 17, 2010 23:34 by Malak Behrouznami – Palestine News Network Report Legendary songwriter, performer and peace activist, Tommy Sands scheduled performance at the “Festival Bloomsday Concert ” Sunday June 20 has been cancelled. The appearance was canceled after Sands refused to be censored during his performance. Sands was asked by the organizers of […]
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Don’t boycott Israel, you cultural terrorist
Date posted: June 14, 2010 By Joharah Baker for MIFTAH It is almost admirable how Israel can twist and turn events around so much and slap on new laws for their own benefit that it would be shameful not to call it anything less than an art form. Israel has always boasted of its law […]
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Devendra Banhart cancels TA show
By YIFA YAAKOV 06/15/2010 05:09 Folk artist says his band was “used to support views not our own.” California-based folk artist Devendra Banhart on Monday canceled two shows he had been set to play in Tel Aviv this week mere hours before his scheduled arrival in Israel. Banhart, who told The Jerusalem Post last week […]
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Dylan sheet music site boycotts Israeli web users
Niv Lillian, Ynetnews.com 12 June 2010 Operator of website that distributes tabs, lyrics to Bob Dylan songs decides to impose private cultural boycott on Jewish state by blocking Israeli users from site Bob Dylan Israeli web users accustomed to surfing the site dylanchords for tabs and lyrics to Bob Dylan songs have recently been blocked […]
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French Protest of Israeli Raid Reaches Wide Audience
By STEVEN ERLANGER Published: June 12, 2010 PARIS – A small cinema chain has set off a sharp debate in France about the deadly Israeli raid on a Turkish ship trying to break the blockade of Gaza, and whether some French are overreacting to the episode. In what was described as a protest against Israeli […]
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