• 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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  • Boycott Placebo: Activists

    Posted on June 9, 2010

    Jun 8, 2010 BEIRUT – LEBANESE activists called on Tuesday for a boycott of British rock band Placebo on the eve of its Lebanon gig for performing in Israel in the wake of the deadly raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla. ‘You are not welcome in Lebanon,’ Lebanese writer and editor Samah Idriss said at […]

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  • Supporting Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions Against Israel

    Posted on June 8, 2010

    Alice Walker 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner Posted: June 7, 2010 09:55 PM “You will have no protection.” – Medgar Evers to Civil Rights Activists in Mississippi, shortly before he was assassinated on June 12, 1963. My heart is breaking; but I do not mind. For one thing, as soon as I wrote those […]

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  • Gaza aid flotilla: Henning Mankell calls for sanctions on Israel

    Posted on June 8, 2010

    Swedish crime novelist Henning Mankell, who travelled in the Gaza aid flotilla, has urged global sanctions on Israel after the deadly strike on the convoy. Mankell said sanctions against Israel would put pressure on the country to lift the naval blockade on Gaza just as sanctions against South Africa had contributed to the dismantling of […]

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