• Don’t be Complicit in Israel’s Apartheid: Boycott the 2010 Tel Aviv International Student Film Festival

    Posted on January 18, 2010

    17 January 2010 – The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) and the Palestinian Students” Campaign for the Academic Boycott of Israel (PSCABI) call on students, lecturers and film-makers to boycott the 13th International Student Film Festival, scheduled for June 2010 in the city of Tel Aviv. PACBI and PSCABI […]

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  • Filmmaker Ken Loach urges cultural boycott of Israel

    Posted on January 16, 2010

    January 15, 2010 (Press TV) – The acclaimed British director and winner of Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, Ken Loach, has called for the boycott of Israeli movies at the international film festivals and cultural events. “The massacres and state terrorism in Gaza make the showcasing of Israeli films in various sections of […]

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  • Ali Abunimah puts Noam Chomsky in his place on BDS

    Posted on January 14, 2010

    This week on Voices of the Middle East and North Africa, we”ll have a conversation with Ali Abu Nimah, co-Founder of Electronic Intifada and activist and Middle East expert Jeff Blankfort, in which they each comment on an interview Voices of the Middle East and North Africa first taped and aired last month with Professor […]

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  • Open Letter to Bono: Entertaining Apartheid Israel…U 2 Bono?

    Posted on January 13, 2010

    Occupied Ramallah, 13 January 2010 Dear Bono, The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) was deeply disturbed to learn that that you are scheduled to perform in Israel this coming summer. Two years ago, you were invited by Israeli President Shimon Peres to attend a conference in Israel marking Israel”s […]

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  • Calling Bono

    Posted on January 10, 2010

    Your Palestinian Gandhis Exist … in Graves and Prisons By ALISON WEIR Dear Bono, In your recent column in the New York Times, “Ten for the Next Ten,” you wrote: “I”ll place my hopes on the possibility – however remote at the moment – that…people in places filled with rage and despair, places like the […]

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  • Palestinian artists call for boycott of Israeli settlement goods

    Posted on January 10, 2010

    Nablus – Ma’an – The Union of Artists in Nablus called on Palestinians to boycott all goods manufactured and produced on Israeli settlements on Saturday, in response to caretaker Prime Minister Salam Fayyad’s call to action against settlement goods in the West Bank last week. The artists’ union suggested the establishment of a national boycott […]

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  • Udi Aloni: Why We Support the Non-violent BDS Movement

    Posted on January 6, 2010

    [Aloni describes the BDS movement’s approach to the Palestinian Right of Return as “Legal and moral Recognition of the Palestinian refugees’ right of return (Obviously, each community’s position will be taken into consideration during the desired negotiations”. According to the Palestinian United Call for BDS (http://bdsmovement.net/?q=node/52), that is not in fact the position of the […]

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  • Open Letter to Metallica

    Posted on December 30, 2009

    AN OPEN LETTER TO METALLICA Halls of Justice Painted Green Money Talking Power Wolves Beset Your Door Hear Them Stalking Soon You’ll Please Their Appetite They Devour Hammer of Justice Crushes You Overpower… (“…And Justice for All”, Metallica) Dear Metallica, Now that the opportunity to truly promote justice for all is in your hands – […]

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  • Jerusalem Diary: Choir caught in disharmony

    Posted on December 22, 2009

    By Tim Franks BBC News, Jerusalem CHOIR FEELING FLAT OVER BOYCOTT ROW It should be a time of unalloyed joy for Tim Brown. The director of one of Britain’s most well-regarded choirs is beginning a six-concert tour of Israel this week. The choir of Clare College, Cambridge, will be singing Bach’s Christmas Oratorio with the […]

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  • British academic: Boycott Israel film festivals

    Posted on December 17, 2009

    Baiju NT [December 16, 2009, 1:30:28 PM] Tom Hickey, a British academic and leading member of the international campaign for an academic and cultural boycott of Israel, urged Kerala on Tuesday to boycott major Israeli events such as film festivals as a mark of solidarity with the Palestinian cause. Tom was speaking at an open […]

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