• Devendra Banhart cancels TA show

    Posted on June 15, 2010

    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

    Posted on June 14, 2010

    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

    Posted on June 14, 2010

    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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  • Israelis fear cultural boycott

    Posted on June 12, 2010

    By Tobias Buck in Jerusalem Published: June 11 2010 16:49 | Last updated: June 11 2010 16:49 Judging by recent events, the global music scene has been gripped by an exciting new craze: boycotting Israel. The fashion started this year, when Carlos Santana, the ageing guitar hero, cancelled his planned summer gig in Tel Aviv […]

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  • “Arrest me, I’m a terrorist”

    Posted on June 12, 2010

    American activists who supported, organized, or were on the flotilla headed to Gaza with humanitarian aid stormed the office of U.S. Congressmen Brad Sherman and turned themselves in for their “crimes.” The stunt was in response to Sherman’s call for Americans on the flotilla be arrested for helping “terrorists.” It illustrates the disconnect between a […]

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  • Israeli Raid On Gaza-Bound Flotilla Draws Mixed Artist Reaction

    Posted on June 11, 2010

    by David J. Prince, N.Y. | June 11, 2010 12:10 EDT When the Pixies canceled their first-ever performance in Israel just three days before a scheduled June 9 gig in Tel Aviv, the veteran indie rock band became the latest in a string of acts to call off shows in the Jewish state. The Pixies’ […]

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  • AN OPEN LETTER TO NEIL SEDAKA TO BOYCOTT APARTHEID

    Posted on June 11, 2010

    June 10, 2010 at 19:31 It was announced on the radio today that you have a scheduled concert in Tel Aviv this coming October. I was a bit taken back by these announcements…. for good reason. We grew up together and lived on the same street in Brighton Beach for many years. My brother was […]

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  • Israel plans to send bill to Palestinians over boycotts

    Posted on June 11, 2010

    By Catrina Stewart in Jerusalem Friday, 11 June 2010 What do The Pixies, Elvis Costello, and Salam Fayyad, Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority, have in common? A cursory glance might suggest not much yet all have deeply irked Israel. When Mr Fayyad first embarked on a door-to-door campaign to persuade Palestinians to shun all […]

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  • Boycott Apartheid, Don’t Play Israel Facebook Groups

    Posted on June 10, 2010

    Active Boycott Groups Diana Krall – please don’t break the Palestinian call to Boycott Israel http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=123536954352660&ref=ts Ozzy Osbourne : Please don’t play apartheid Israel http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=114491948592907&ref=ts BOB DYLAN BOYCOTT ISRAEL http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=116628888365109&ref=ts Elvis Costello: Respect the Palestinian call to boycott Israel http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=117120338312055&ref=ts (Success – not playing) Joan Armatrading: Please Don’t Go to Israel! http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=116625421691276&ref=ts (Joan played and […]

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  • Artists’ Boycott Strikes a Dissonant Note Inside Israel

    Posted on June 10, 2010

    By ISABEL KERSHNER Published: June 9, 2010 JERUSALEM – The announcement by the Pixies, an American alternative rock band, that they would cancel their long-awaited concert in Israel this week amid international outrage over Israel”s deadly raid on a Turkish activists” ship bound for Gaza, had an impact far beyond the 15,000 disappointed fans. The […]

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