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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Censorship & silencing
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Paul Weller, Tilda Swinton: stop the proscription of Palestine Action
Today, leading artists including musicians Paul Weller, Massive Attack’s Robert del Naja, Brian Eno and US artist Reggie Watts have joined Nadine Shah in calling for the ban to be dropped and for the government to stop supplying arms to Israel.
Actors Tilda Swinton, Steve Coogan and Billy Howle are among those signing the statement saying “Palestine Action is intervening to stop a genocide. It is acting to save life.”
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Royal Television Society U-Turns on Special Award for Palestinian Journalists
In response to a statement by the Royal Television Society (copied below), UK Screen Industry has said: “We welcome the Royal Television Society’s U-turn in reinstating the Special Award for the courageous Palestinian journalists of Gaza. However, the charity’s statement does little to address or allay our concerns.
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Leading Broadcasters Demand Reinstatement of Special Award Recognising Gaza Journalists
Broadcasters Jonathan Dimbleby, Lindsey Hilsum, Sangita Myska, Matt Frei, Krishnan Guru-Murthy, Alex Crawford, Fergal Keane and Orla Guerin are among more than 400 TV and journalism professionals who have sent a letter to the leadership of the Royal Television Society (RTS) demanding transparency around its decision-making after the charity abruptly cancelled its Special Award for journalists in Gaza last week.
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BBC bosses ‘throwing Palestinian children under a bus’
“We welcome Tim Davie saying an independent review of the BBC’s Middle East coverage is appropriate and urge that this accounts for its abject failure to stand by the Palestinian voices it features. We all know Israeli guests would never be treated this way.”
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TV industry urges MPs to press BBC execs over Gaza documentary removal
UK TV and film programme-makers have urged a panel of MPs to press BBC executives on Tuesday over the controversial removal of a documentary about children in Gaza.
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Our response to the BBC’s shameful statement on ‘Gaza: How to Survive a War Zone’
Following Thursday’s BBC board meeting and statement on ‘Gaza: How to Survive a War Zone’, Artists for Palestine UK said: “We are appalled that the BBC has chosen to give credence to a politicised campaign that sought to discredit a documentary about children’s experiences of unspeakable Israeli military violence, because one child’s father was deputy agriculture minister in Gaza. This disgraceful decision comes despite nearly 900 media figures having warned the BBC of the dangers of such an approach.
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1,000+ programme-makers condemn censorship and racism after BBC pulls Gaza documentary
Gary Lineker, Brian Cox, Sangita Myska, Nish Kumar, Khalid Abdalla, Anita Rani, and Miriam Margolyes have joined over 1,000 film, TV, and media workers in condemning censorship and racism after the BBC pulled a documentary about children’s lives in Gaza.
The media professionals, including sixteen BBC staff, sent a letter to the broadcaster’s director-general Tim Davie, chair of the board Samir Shah, chief content officer Charlotte Moore, and head of news and current affairs Deborah Turness on Wednesday. The letter condemned a “racist” and “dehumanising” campaign targeting the film Gaza: How to Survive a War Zone, which the BBC removed from its iPlayer streaming service after pressure from supporters of Israel.
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Leading artists condemn campaign against ‘Let it be a Tale’ theatre production
Leading artists, including writer Michael Rosen, actors Billy Howle and Khalid Abdalla, playwrights Caryl Churchill and Tanika Gupta and composer Orlando Gough, have spoken out against attempts to damage the reputation and stifle the work of Brighton’s ThirdSpace theatre company.
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Leading Arts Figures Condemn Anti-Trans and Anti-Palestinian Censorship at Royal Exchange Theatre
Kingsley Ben-Adir, Khalid Abdalla, Pooja Ghai and April De Angelis are among 200+ arts and theatre figures who have signed an open letter to Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre condemning the theatre for censoring references to Palestinian and trans liberation in a recently commissioned work.
