How to Take Action for Palestine as a Charity
A guide: How to take action for Palestine as an arts charity
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Arts Palestine
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Leading artists disengage from British venue that censored Palestine
Portishead’s Geoff Barrow and Adrian Utley, Massive Attack’s Robert del Naja, writers Alice Oswald, Nikesh Shukla, Shon Faye, Travis Alabanza and Rachel Holmes are among many of Bristol’s artists who have written a letter accusing the iconic Arnolfini International Centre for Contemporary Arts of “censorship of Palestinian culture”.
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Service of thanksgiving for journalist Shireen Abu Akleh to be held at Fleet Street church
A service of thanksgiving for journalist Shireen Abu Akleh is to be held at St Bride’s, Fleet Street, London’s ‘journalists’ church’, on June 28th.
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Palestinian artists & cultural organisations call on internationals to cancel engagements in Israel
“Two years ago, just a short drive from apartheid Tel Aviv, Israel destroyed an important cultural centre in Gaza, the Said al-Mishal, with targeted airstrikes. Violations and abuses against Palestinian musicians, poets, actors and other artists are commonplace, including in occupied East Jerusalem.
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Leading artists condemn Israeli raids on Palestinian cultural centres & call for sanctions
Steve Coogan, Peter Gabriel, Massive Attack, Benjamin Zephaniah, Maxine Peake and Philip Pullman are among 60+ cultural figures to put their names to an open letter condemning attacks on key Palestinian cultural centres.
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Aldeburgh DocFest disinvites author, invites Israel lobby CEO to discuss ‘GAZA’
On Sunday, Aldeburgh Documentary Festival will host a discussion that follows a screening of the acclaimed documentary ‘GAZA’, a film about Palestinian lives in the besieged enclave. Extraordinarily, the panel is advertised to include the CEO of the UK’s biggest pro-Israel public relations group, BICOM (British Israel Communications and Research). Clearly something has gone very…
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‘UK government must end isolation of artists from Gaza’: hundreds of academics and artists speak out
The letter below criticises the UK government’s shameful ‘hostile environment’ policy, as it impacts on artists, and in particular artists from Gaza. Israel’s policies have brought Gaza to the brink of economic, social and ecological collapse. To refuse visas to individuals who use all their efforts to be productive and creative in the face of…
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Artswatch Palestine: December – March 2019
Our digest of news from Israel’s cultural war against the Palestinians
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Artswatch Palestine: September- November 2018
Palestinian author Susan Abulhawa (pictured) was on her way to Palestine Literature Festival when she was denied entry to her homeland, held in a prison cell, then flown back to the United States. Our digest of news from Israel’s cultural war against the Palestinians Dareen Tatour Dareen Tatour, Palestinian poet and citizen of Israel, was…
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Artswatch Palestine: June-August 2018
Artswatch: June-August report-
*Gaza – The War Against Culture.
*Gaza – The War Over Meaning
*Gaza – The Forbidden Subject
*Tatour – The Forbidden Poet
*Nakba – The Forbidden History
*Daniel Barenboim: Israel Is An Apartheid State
*Artists In Opposition To Israel’s Policies
