• Ghoshwood’s Mendacity

    Posted on May 11, 2010

    by Robin Yassin-Kassab and Claire Chambers. Novelists Amitav Ghosh and Margaret Atwood have accepted the Dan David prize at Tel Aviv University, an institution at the heart of Israel”s military-industrial complex. By doing so they have spurned Palestinian civil society”s call for boycott, divestment and sanctions on the Zionist state. Atwood has specifically ignored this […]

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  • A Letter to Elton John: Don’t Play Apartheid Israel

    Posted on May 11, 2010

    The following letter was sent recorded delivery to Elton John via the following contacts: Elton John’s Management: Twenty-First Artists, Ltd., 1 Blythe Road, London, W14 OHG – Phone: 44-207-348-4800 Elton John’s Agent: Howard Rose, The Howard Rose Agency, Ltd. – 9460 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 310, Beverly Hills, CA 90212 – Phone: 310-858-3838 Elton John’s Publicist: […]

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  • Open Letter to Margaret Atwood: Reject Tel Aviv University Prize

    Posted on May 11, 2010

    Raymond Deane for Salem-News.com Some say Palestine is the ultimate test of honesty. (DUBLIN) – I realise that I am too late to contribute to the messages calling upon you not to accept the Dan David Prize. There is an ironic reason for this: I have admired your fiction, poetry and ethical stance for so […]

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  • Dear Ms. Atwood, I regret to inform you that you have failed the lie detector test

    Posted on May 11, 2010

    By Roger Tucker By going to Israel to accept the Dan David Prize you have chosen to go over to the Dark Side. If you do make the trip, there is no turning back. Please consider well what people who have appreciated your literary work and heretofore took seriously your vaunted support for human rights […]

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  • HEY ELTON: Don’t Play Apartheid Israel!

    Posted on May 9, 2010

    Palestinian civil society has called on Elton John to respect its boycott call and cancel his June 17th concert in Tel Aviv. If he does so, he’ll be joining Santana and Gil-Scott Heron, who recently cancelled their spring concerts in Israel. This video suggests six reasons why Elton should join the BDS (boycott, divestment, sanctions) […]

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  • Boycott Israel? Amitav Ghosh & the Dan David Prize

    Posted on May 9, 2010

    Boycott Israel? Amitav Ghosh & the Dan David Prize Dear Amitav Ghosh, We wish to express our deep disappointment in your decision to accept the Dan David prize, administered by Tel Aviv University and to be awarded by the President of Israel. As a writer whose work has dwelled consistently on histories of colonialism and […]

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  • Defying appeal from Gaza students, Atwood set to accept Israeli prize

    Posted on May 8, 2010

    Kristin Srzemski, The Electronic Intifada, 8 May 2010 On Sunday, Booker Prize-winning author Margaret Atwood will accept the Dan David Prize at Tel Aviv University and her portion of the $1 million payout that goes with it. Meanwhile, a mere 40 miles away, students in the occupied and besieged Gaza Strip will still be struggling […]

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  • Chomsky, scientists: Technion develops death tech

    Posted on May 8, 2010

    Senior academics from Tel Aviv University, Weizmann Institute, and other top institutions around world denounce Boston Science Museum’s sponsorship of Israeli exhibit, calling it propaganda campaign. ‘This is an attempt to distract from Israel’s war crimes and human rights violations,’ they say Yitzhak Benhorin Published: 05.06.10, 21:04 WASHINGTON – Professors from Tel Aviv University and […]

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  • Open letter to Margaret Atwood to support Palestinian liberation

    Posted on May 7, 2010

    by Rob Maguire on May 6, 2010 Dear Ms. Margaret Atwood, Today, as systematic human rights violations continue to be committed by the Israeli government against the Palestinian people, we are appealing to you on behalf of the Montreal-based collective Tadamon! and Art Threat concerning your planned visit to Tel Aviv. We have learned that […]

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  • Fifty-Seven organizations and artists thank Gil Scott-Heron for heeding Palestinian call to boycott Israel

    Posted on May 7, 2010

    MEDIA CONTACT: info[at]adalahny.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE New York, NY, May 5, 2010 – More than 50 organizations and artists from eight countries have written to legendary political singer and poet Gil Scott-Heron to thank him for his decision to drop Israel from his current tour. The letter, facilitated by Adalah-NY, highlighted the parallels between the […]

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