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Elvis Costello: Don’t Play Apartheid Israel
PSC Letter to Elvis Costello 27 April 2010 Dear Elvis Costello, We were shocked to see from your website that you are planning on performing in Israel this June. The Palestinian people have lived under military occupation for decades. The siege by the Israeli army and the economic blockade have devastated their daily lives so […]
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BDS Alert: Israeli Gov’t Funded Film Ajami Returns to Seattle and Other US Cities
In early March, [Michelle J. Kinnican] wrote in the Palestine Chronicle, “Ajami is an Israeli film that is in contention for an Academy Award this Sunday for Best Foreign Language Film. Whether it wins the Oscar or not, it has already gained a lot of international attention and accolades and it will probably be in […]
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BDS: Noam Sheizaf teaches the “Israeli Left” the ABC of denial
The number of people who understood the deep perfidy also known as “the Israeli left” used to be small, and their ideas used to be taboo outside their miniscule publications. One of the salutary effects of BDS is that it helps clarify this perfidy and open the debate to a kind of political knowledge that […]
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Amitav Ghosh lands in controversy over Israeli literary award
Shreya Roy Chowdhury, TNN, Apr 29, 2010, 03.17am IST NEW DELHI: Writer Amitav Ghosh is in the middle of an unsavoury award controversy. The writer of award-winning novels like The Shadow Lines and The Hungry Tide has won the million-dollar Dan David Prize. Won for “Rendition of the 20th Century,” he’ll share it with Booker-winning […]
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Gil Scott-Heron’s TA show in doubt
By DAVID BRINN 28/04/2010 11:12 US musician says he won’t go to Israel because “we don”t like wars.” The May 25 Tel Aviv performance of American political soul/jazz pioneer Gil Scott-Heron is in doubt, only days after it was announced. Appearing in London this week at the Royal Festival Hall, Scott-Heron said from the stage […]
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Joan Armatrading: Don’t Play Apartheid Israel!
from Joan Armatrading’s website: JUNE/ISRAEL 4/6/2010 Friday Shuni Fortress Amphitheater Binyamina 00972(0)3 5215200 www.hadran.co.il On Sale 5/6/2010 Saturday Frederic R. Mann Auditorium Tel Aviv 00 972(0)3 5215200
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Letter to Amitav Ghosh
Dear Amitav Ghosh, I read your response to our many notes with interest and empathy, but in the end, some bewilderment too. Earlier I had sent you a rather flippant note, assuming at that time that you would decline the award. Now, having read your response, I am reminded of many discussions I’ve had this […]
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Tickets for Scott-Heron show still on sale in Tev Aviv, but no longer listed on Scott-Heron’s website
April 26, 2010 From Ha’aretz, April 26: Human rights activists are attempting to pressure American hip-hop artist Gil Scott-Heron to cancel his scheduled concert in Israel, slated to take place in Tel Aviv on May 25th. Over the weekend Scott-Heron, who is presenting new material this year for the first time in 16 years, gave […]
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Will the Revolution be TelAvivized?
By Jillian For weeks, activists have been asking Gil Scott-Heron to join the boycott movement against Israel and not play an upcoming concert date in Tel Aviv. Scott-Heron, an influential artist and activist on issues of social justice and equality, was a member of United Artists Against Apartheid in the 1980s and a featured singer […]
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New Jerusalem Arts Festival must be Boycotted (including participating artists)
New arts festival aims to put Jerusalem on global cultural map By Danielle Zilberberg Tel Aviv may be considered Israel’s cultural capital, but a new arts festival scheduled to kick off in Jerusalem next month aims to draw attention to the city’s “artistic atmosphere,” one of the event’s organizers told Haaretz on Monday. The organizers […]
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