Archive for the ‘Cutural Boycott’ Category
Massive Attack On Apartheid
Massive Attack bandmember Robert Del Naja discusses why their band is boycotting Israel as a tour destination.
“We were asked to play Israel and we refused,” he says. “The question was asked: ‘If you don’t play there, how can you go there and change things?’ I said: ‘Listen, I can’t play in Israel when [...]
Irish Artists Pledge Solidarity Against Apartheid
In a move saluted by PACBI, the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Committee (ISPC) has launched a national campaign of artists pledging to boycott Israeli apartheid:
“In response to the call from Palestinian civil society for a cultural boycott of Israel, we pledge not to avail of any invitation to perform or exhibit in Israel, nor [...]
Artists Against Apartheid Supports SoundStrike Campaign
From TheSoundStrike.net Press Room:
LOS ANGELES, CA: Cypress Hill, Juanes, Conor Oberst, Los Tigres del Norte, Rage Against the Machine, Cafe Tacvba, Micheal Moore, Kanye West, Calle 13, Joe Satriani, Serj Tankian, Rise Against, Ozomatli, Sabertooth Tiger, Massive Attack, One Day as a Lion, Street Sweeper Social Club, Spank Rock, Sonic Youth and Tenacious [...]
Elvis Costello Leaves the Imperial Bedroom
Elvis Costello has just made a stark departure from the normalization-business-as-usual in the entertainment industry. In a year where artists such as the Pixies, Metallica, Joan Armatrading, Bob Dylan, Rod Stewart, Beyonce, Elton John and Ozzy Osbourne, to name a few, have displayed little hesitation to take the stage in apartheid Israel, Elvis Costello [...]
Pixes Don’t Croon for Apartheid
UPDATE: The Pixies have canceled their planned concert in apartheid Israel, following the attacks on the Freedom Flotilla.
The Pixies have a concert booked in Tel-Aviv, Palestine-Israel. The concert announcements makes no mention Apartheid Israel’s ongoing colonial dispossession and discrimination against the Palestinian people, and as such would break the Cultural Boycott of Israel. Israeli [...]
Tadamon Montreal Rally 500 Artists in Solidarity
Montreal, Canada – February 25th 2010. Today, a broad spectrum of Montreal artists are standing in solidarity with the Palestinian struggle for freedom and supporting the growing international campaign for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against the Israeli state. Last winter, the Israeli state launched a violent military assault on [...]
Shine A Light for Palestinian Freedom
Elton John is scheduled to perform in Apartheid Israel on June 17th, 2010. This performance would undermine the international cultural boycott of Israel, which was initiated by the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI), as a means of non-violent resistance to Apartheid and Colonialism.
In addition to normalizing the oppression [...]
Thank You Carlos Santana
Thank You Carlos Santana
Artists Against Apartheid and the US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel would like to extend our thanks to Carlos Santana for honoring the call for the Cultural Boycott of Israel, by electing not to perform in the apartheid state. The call for cultural boycott was successful in [...]
Poet Kevin Coval Takes Lonely Step Into Larger World
From Poet Kevin Coval, as published at ElectronicIntifada.net:
Why I am not a Zionist
Kevin Coval, The Electronic Intifada, 5 November 2009
Last week I was disinvited from my second Jewish conference in two months for poems I’d written in solidarity with Palestinians, poems that make an unapologetic call for justice. Subsequently, I and the poet I [...]
Leonard Cohen Seeks Reconciliation At Apartheid Bank Discount
In addition to sponsoring Leonard Cohen’s ‘Concert for Reconciliation, Tolerance and Peace’ in Tel-Aviv this Thursday, Israel Discount Bank (’Bank Discount’) also financed the construction of building projects in the settlements of Har Homa, Beitar Illit and Ma’ale Adumim. Several of their branches are located in Jewish-only settlements of Beitar Illit, and Ma’ale Adumim [...]
