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In the news: Annemarie Jacir
December 14, 2009 The bad girl of Palestinian cinema talks about being uncooperative, disliking the press and being stalked by Israeli film festivals. Words by Dalia Al Kury. ANNEMARIE JACIR”S Salt of this Sea was the hottest Palestinian film of 2008-2009. It”s the story of Soraya, a Palestinian born and raised in America who discovers […]
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Israel supports cultural boycott
by Adam Horowitz on December 6, 2009 From Haaretz: The Gaza Strip”s first international documentary festival, which will end tomorrow, began nearly a month after the scheduled date because Israel”s blockade made it difficult for organizers to get the films that will be screened there. . . Palestinian director Riad Shahin, who is running the […]
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8 filmmakers refuse to participate in Paris Cinema program
Palestinian and Israeli FIlmmakers boycott Forum des Images in Paris. * Avi Moghrabi, Anne-Marie Jacir, Eyal Sivan, Shai Karmeli Pollack, Hany Abu Assad, Maryse Gargour, Najwa Barakat, and Tamar Berger Tel-Aviv sous les feux… de la rampe BDS France appelle au boycott du festival Du 4 novembre au 6 décembre, Paris célí¨bre le centenaire de […]
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Normalization Politics on the Nile
Ursula Lindsey is a Cairo-based writer and reporter. On September 23, Farouq Husni lost a close vote for the post of head of the UN cultural and educational body, UNESCO, to the Bulgarian Irina Bokova. Husni, the sitting minister of culture in Egypt, had become the “controversial” contender for the position, his candidacy marred by […]
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Sounds and struggle: Solidarity through music
Tyler Nadeau, The Electronic Intifada, 18 November 2009 On Wednesday, 11 November, more than 200 persons packed into La Sala Rossa, a slightly operatic Montreal venue. Three sets of musicians fascinated listeners with a dance of ouds followed by a soft and multi-dimensional interplay of harp, cello, pedal steel, percussion and flute. The experience was […]
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Will the Jewish Federation of San Francisco drive more people into the arms of BDS (boycotts, divestment and sanction)?
Judith Butler, Ronnie Gilbert and Aurora Levins Morales respond Posted on November 16 2009 by Cecilie Surasky under BDS , Censorship. Here is an embarrassingly McCarthyite response to the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival”s decision to a) screen the film Rachel by Jewish-Israeli filmmaker Simone Bitton, b) invite Cindy Corrie to speak and c) ask […]
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WE GIVE YOU THE REASONS WHY YOU SHOULD BOYCOTT, PICKET AND PROTEST, ALL ISRAEL’S CULTURAL PARTNERSHIPS IN AUSTRALIA (see below) BEGIN TOMORROW!
Picket Israel”s JERUSALEM QUARTET recital Tuesday 17 November 2009, 7.00pm Melbourne Recital Centre, corner Southbank Boulevard and Sturt Street, Southbank Please help us distribute flyers half an hour before the recital begins. After Perth, Sydney and Adelaide, Melbourne is the Jerusalem Quartet”s next stop. This is your chance to join the worldwide boycott, divestment and […]
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New Orleans Film Festival Joins the Cultural Boycott of Israel
New Orleans Palestine solidarity activists founded one film festival in New Orleans, called PATOIS (patoisfilmfest.org). Our festival considers ourselves part of the International BDS movement, and our festival observes the international boycott of Israeli cultural institutions. Now we have convinced another local film festival, the New Orleans Middle East Film Festival, to also observe the […]
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Supporting the Cultural Boycott from Within
The Israeli group, BOYCOTT! Supporting the Palestinian BDS call from within, have circulated a call to action, asking Israeli citizens to contact officials at the University of Trondheim, and express their support for a decision in favor of an institutional boycott against Israeli universities. The letter sent by the group itself follows. 8/11/09 Boycott the […]
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Open letter to the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge
Please consider signing this letter below and sending your reply back to Michael or John by Sunday November 1st at the latest, and circulating of you can. Further to my message yesterday, I am copying below a letter to all members of Clare College Choir which has been drafted by the UK Palestine Solidarity Campaign […]
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