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Boycott Placebo: Activists
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
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
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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Israel’s Freedom Flotilla Massacre underlines the urgency of intensifying BDS
Occupied Palestine, 08 June 2010 — In light of Israel”s massacre of humanitarian relief workers and activists aboard the Freedom Flotilla on 31 May 2010 and its insistence to continue its illegal siege on Gaza, pressuring Israel to comply with its obligations under international law has become of undeniable urgency. Drunk with power and impunity, […]
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More Musicians Cancel Performances in Israel
June 7, 2010, 11:30 am By DAVE ITZKOFF A music promoter in Israel said that the country was being subjected to “cultural terrorism” as more artists canceled planned performances there, Agence France-Presse reported. Over the weekend the alternative-rock band the Pixies withdrew from what would have been its first-ever show in Israel, as part of […]
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What the Pixies think may be catching
A piece in today”s Murdoch Australian highlights the almost unstoppable movement towards isolating Israel until it recognises the error of its occupying ways. Not much evidence that many Israelis do believe that, but give them time: The piece is by Michael Shaik: “MICHAEL, she”s dead.” It was March 16, 2003. The huge anti-war protests of […]
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Boycott! Praises The Pixies Cancellation Following Flotilla Raid
June 6, 2010 Boycott! praises The Pixies for their decision to cancel their concert in Tel-Aviv, Israel, following Israel’s brutal raid on the recent Freedom Flotilla and its massacre on the Mavi Marmara ship. This attack and its maintaining of the life-costing and illegal siege on Gaza has demonstrated once more what we’ve stated in […]
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On boycotting the post-Tel Aviv Placebo concert in Lebanon
Strangely, there has been a lot of protest in Lebanon about holding Placebo to task for not respecting the call to boycott Israel. The following comes as a response to that: By Maya Mikdashi I will be boycotting the Placebo concert in Lebanon, and the reason is simple. Art is not a-political, and it never […]
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Pixies cancel concert in Israel after Gaza Flotilla killings
The national demo in London was great yesterday. Estimated at 20,000 people, it had a powerful atmosphere: vibrant, diverse and hopeful. We commemorated those killed and determined to ensure they didn’t die in vain, with a tremendous sense of purpose to build a bigger solidarity movement. After yesterday’s global day of protest, comes welcome news […]
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British Writers in Support of Palestine
June 4th 2010 I”m proud to be a signatory to this letter published in shortened form in the Independent on Sunday. Dear Editor The murder of humanitarian aid workers aboard the Mavi Marmara in international waters is the latest tragic example of Israel”s relentless attacks on human rights. But while violently preventing the free passage […]
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