AN OPEN LETTER TO RADIOHEAD
OPEN LETTER TO RADIOHEAD: “Do what artists did in South Africa’s era of oppression – stay away until apartheid is over.”
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Artswatch Palestine: February-March 2017
ARTWATCH DIGEST: FEBRUARY – MARCH 2017
* Raiding Jenin
* Raiding Aida
* Shutting down a Theatre
* Controlling the film industry
* Putting poetry on trial
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Eddie Izzard’s registration for Palestine Marathon this Friday sent back to him by organisers
MEDIA: Eddie Izzard Misses Palestinian Marathon Following Backlash Over Tel Aviv Gig, Hollywood Reporter 31/3/2017 RELATED: ‘Israel bans Gaza runners from Palestine Marathon in Bethlehem’ Middle East Monitor March 30, 2017 Palestinians run for right to free movement in Bethlehem marathon 31.03.2017 ‘In a development saturated with political and emotional charge, South African runner Mervin Steenkamp came in first, for…
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Fans ask Eddie Izzard – “Don’t support Apartheid Israel”
Fans of UK comedian Eddie Izzard, admired for his record of opposing Apartheid in South Africa, are disappointed he has so far failed to respect the Palestinian boycott of Israeli Apartheid.
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Banksy Withdraws Invitation to Fatboy Slim to Perform at Walled Off Hotel
Banksy, artist turned hotelier, has responded to an appeal from Palestinians, and withdrawn an invitation to English DJ Fatboy Slim to perform at a street party outside the new Walled Off Hotel in Bethlehem.
Fatboy Slim scheduled a Bethlehem appearance the day after his planned March 12 performance in Tel Aviv. Artists for Palestine UK (APUK), have appealed to the DJ to cancel his Israeli show.
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‘No one now regrets boycotting apartheid South Africa’
UPDATE 09.03.2017 From Israeli Citizens: Radiohead, Please Don’t Play Tel-Aviv Open letter from Israeli citizens to Radiohead : “We urge you to cancel your performances in Israel and not grant your seal of approval to Israel’s ongoing crimes and human rights violations.” 09.03.2017 London, 7 March 2017 Calls mount for Radiohead to cancel Israel gig Artists for Palestine…
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‘Dear Rabbi Sacks – stop your lies about BDS’
Robert Cohen addresses Rabbi Sack’s animated propaganda video designed to undermine support for the movement for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS)
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Immediate Threat to Academic Freedom and Freedom of Speech
These are outrageous interferences with free expression, and are direct attacks on academic freedom. As academics with positions at UK universities, we wish to express our dismay at this attempt to silence campus discussion about Israel, including its violation of the rights of Palestinians for more than 50 years. It is with disbelief that we witness explicit political interference in university affairs in the interests of Israel, under the thin disguise of concern about antisemitism.
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Anish Kapoor gifts Israel a PR coup
For as long as artists like Kapoor continue to accept these obscenely large gifts from a state that practices ethnic cleansing, they gift Israel the social license to pursue its ongoing dispossession of Palestinians.
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Artists to Fatboy Slim: please don’t play Tel Aviv
Artists write to DJ Fatboy Slim asking him to cancel his forthcoming show in Tel Aviv. Norman Cook, AKA Fatboy Slim, said recently in an interview that his criteria for accepting a gig means it has to ‘fulfil the 5 f’s’ – a first, a favour for a friend, fun, finance, food. Playing the settler-colonial state may be ‘a first’ for Fatboy, but it’s only going to be ‘fun’ if he ignores the experience of Palestinians including those within Israel’s borders. We hope he thinks again.
