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Open letter to Gare St Lazare Players Ireland: Cancel Tel Aviv University!
PACBI | 23 April 2010 Occupied Ramallah, 23 April 2010 The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) urges through this letter the Irish touring theatre company Gare St Lazare Players Ireland to cancel their scheduled performance of Samuel Beckett”s “First Love” at Tel Aviv University on May 26, 2010. We […]
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Letter to Gil Scott-Heron
Rap pioneer Gil Scott-Heron is scheduled to go to Israel for one performance on May 25 in Tel Aviv’s Barbie club. Dear Gil, We write to urge you not to perform in Israel next month. This is done in the name of millions of Palestinians living under an Apartheid system no different (and probably worse) […]
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Gil Scott-Heron: don’t go to the moon
Matthew Cassel, The Electronic Intifada, 20 April 2010 Dear Gil Scott-Heron, I’ve always defended your track “Whitey on the Moon” to fellow white Americans who dismissed the song as racist. I argued that considering the centuries of enslavement of your African ancestors, and the continued oppression of and racism against Black Americans, it’s not unfair […]
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Open Letter to Gil Scott-Heron: Don’t Play Apartheid Israel!
PACBI | 21 April 2010 Occupied Ramallah, 21 April 2010 The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) is gravely disappointed by the announcement that well-known, progressive artist Gil Scott-Heron is due to perform in Israel on May 25. We call upon Mr. Scott-Heron, a member of United Artists Against Apartheid […]
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Bay Area Artists Tell Out In Israel to get OUT Of San Francisco Again!
Out In Israel is a month-long festival taking place throughout the Bay Area during April 2010. It includes a Hebrew language LGBT film series, theatrical and musical performances by prominent Israeli artists, cooking demonstrations, art exhibitions, literary readings, and panels discussions on LGBT culture in Israel and Zionist perspectives. Out In Israel breaks the Cultural […]
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Shame on Amitav Ghosh for accepting a prize from Apartheid Israel
Here is a semi-official letter from novelist Amitav Ghosh defending his decision to accept a prize from the apartheid regime in Israel: I have received many messages in relation to the Dan David Prize, which I am sharing with Margaret Atwood. I think it is of paramount importance to note that this prize is awarded […]
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Margaret Atwood’s response re: Dan David Prize
Canadian Letters Since I accepted the Dan David Prize and it has been announced, I have received several letters from different groups asking me to reverse my acceptance and boycott this event. For some reason, Amitav Ghosh of India, with whom the prize is shared, does not appear to be a target of this campaign. […]
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Open Letter to Amitav Ghosh from Vijay Prashad
Dear Amitav, I had written to you enthusiastically after reading “Relic of a Disputed Past,” when you took yourself out of the running for the Commonwealth Prize, 2001. It was not only the politics that I appreciated and seconded, but also that this withdrawal was for The Glass Palace, a book that is so superb […]
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Write to Amitav Ghosh and ask him Not to accept the Dan David Prize
Please consider sending a short note to Amitav Ghosh asking him not to accept the Israeli Dan David prize. Below is my letter, below, and that sent by a friend from Lahore. For those of you who know his work, it is particularly galling since he has done some excellent writings on colonialism, exile, and […]
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Call for Margaret Atwood to Join Cultural Boycott of Israel
The Palestinian Academic and Cultural Boycott Initiative (PACBI) has issued a statement encouraging Margaret Atwood not to accept the Dan David prize, which is based at Tel Aviv University (TAU). The PACBI statement is reproduced below. At the same time, the Palestinian Students Campaign for the Academic Boycott of Israel (PSCABI) issued an open letter […]
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