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Open Letter to Metallica
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
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
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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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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