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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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Gil Scott Heron replaces Stacey Solomon
Well not quite. Stacey will not now be performing for the UK Zionist Federation’s celebration of the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians that began in earnest in November 1947. Gil Scott Heron, on the other hand, is intending to appear in Tel Aviv some time in May, according to Ynet: Poet, singer, musician, and renowned […]
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Take Action: Gil Scott Heron: Don’t play in Tel Aviv
Sarah Cobham | 17.04.2010 Gil Scott Heron was part of the United Artists Against Apartheid in the early 80’s.He sang against Apartheid and against artists playing at Sun City: Shockingly he has a concert date booked in Tel Aviv on 25th May 2010. We must get the concert cancelled! By performing in Israel Gil Scott […]
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Gil Scott-Heron: If you Said no to Sun City, Say no to Tel Aviv
Artists United Against Apartheid sing about boycotting Sun City in South Africa in the 1980s. It”s sad to think that this sort of protest for Palestine would be considered “controversial”, especially when people like Gil-Scott Heron, who appears in this video, have decided to perform in Tel Aviv. (Source: Shax) Now is the time to […]
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