Declaration
Artists Against Apartheid Declaration of 2010
Artists Against Apartheid is an international alliance committed to Equal Rights and Justice, and the elimination of apartheid in our world. While crimes of apartheid are ongoing in Palestine-Israel, we will stand in solidarity with the Palestinian call for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) and the Cultural Boycott of Israel:
- We support the call for international artists not to perform or exhibit work in apartheid Israel, unless in solidarity with anti-apartheid events.
- We will not perform, exhibit, or otherwise participate in events sponsored by the state of Israel or institutions complicit in its apartheid.
- We will not perform, exhibit or otherwise participate in events which deceptively suggest symmetry or shared responsibility between “both sides” for Israel’s ongoing colonial oppression of the Palestinian people and its system of apartheid.
The cultural boycott of Israel, as a key component of the global BDS Movement, shall be maintained until Israel meets its moral and legal obligation to recognize the Palestinian people’s inalienable right to self-determination by:
1. Ending its occupation and colonization of all Arab lands and dismantling the Wall;
2. Recognizing the fundamental rights of the Arab-Palestinian citizens of Israel to full equality; and
3. Respecting, protecting and promoting the rights of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes and properties as stipulated in UN resolution 194.
Artists Against Apartheid
Written in coordination with the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (www.PACBI.org)
Artist Roster and Endorsements are listed here
Please visit here to join/endorse Resources: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid
Palestinian Call for an Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel
PACBI Guidelines for applying the Cultural Boycott of Israel
Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa: Report on Israeli Apartheid and Colonialism
Boycott! Supporting the Palestinian BDS Call From Within
US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel
The “crime of apartheid” is defined as acts “committed for the purpose of establishing and maintaining domination by one racial group of persons over any other racial group of persons and systematically oppressing them”. – Excerpted from the 1973 International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid.
Andrew Felluss Music Producer-Engineer New York City, USA
Annelys de Vet Design Brussels
Ariel Speedwagon performance and video/film New York, NY
B Lewis Music Canada
Batan Silva Film Mexico
BigMo Music and Poetry Portland, OR
Claudio Parentela Paintings Italy
Daniel Lang/Levitsky (Means of Production) Puppetry, theater, dance & other forms of performance; design; curation New York City
Dave Lippman Music, Comedy New York
David Rovics Music Portand, OR
Doc Jazz Music http://www.docjazz.com/
Dr Fatma A Rashid Reda MD PhD Poetry USA
Edie Pistolesi Art Education Northridge CA
Ellen O’Grady Painter, Author, Activist USA
Emily Millay Haddad, Circles of Fire Productions Filmmaking, Transmedia, Writing, Activism Brooklyn, NY
Enas I. Muthaffar Filmmaking Jerusalem
Erin Genia Visual Arts Olympia, WA
Erin Wade Activist Seattle, WA
Francesca Viceconti visual arts, illustration, drawing London, UK
Ger Ryan Acting, Writing Ireland
Gregory McCain Playwright/Actor Chicago (USA)
Helena Kaspiri Activism, Journalism Greece
Hussein Yusuf Poet, Activist Port Glascow
Janice Jordan Animal Life Activist San Diego
Judith Glaubman Visual Artist Cambridge, MA
Karmel AlZiri Filmmaking UAE
Katie Miranda Painter/Cartoonist/Jeweler Oakland, CA
Kiana M. Green Poetry, Music, Filmmaking, Activism Los Angeles, California
Kjellaug Hatlen Lunde Painter, Graphic Artist Tromsoe, Norway
kris thefoolonballhill Digital Imag-inings England
Leon Rosselson Singer, Songwriter, Author Britain
Luci Murphy Singer-Songleader Washington, DC
Mass Obliteration Band Rome, Italy
Menna Elfyn Poet, Journalist, Creative Writing Director, Royal Literary Fund Fellow West Wales
Mohamed Ghorab Egypt
Moses Seenarine Filmmaker, Activist Los Angeles
Muhammad al-Syed Photography New Zealand
Nicole Ballivian Filmmaker Los Angeles
Nicole Witte Solomon Writer, Filmmaker Brooklyn, NY
Nigel Parry Music Pittsburgh, PA
Nihaya Qawasmi Ethnic Jewelry Making California
No More Ignorance Artists Collective Worldwide
Pennelli di Vermeer Music (rock and theatre rock) Naples, Italy
Qalandar Bux Memon Painting, poetry, writing, lecturing Lahore, Pakistan
Quetzal Music East Los Angeles
Rafeef Ziadah Spoken Word Poetry, Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid, Israeli Apartheid Week
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Ramy Abdeljabbar Musician, Activist Paterson, NJ
Redguard Editor, Absent Cause zine Brooklyn, NY
Roger Manning Musician New York City
Roxanne Photography USA
Sarah Farahat Intermedia Artist Portland, Oregon
Siskanna Naynaha Design, Activism, Writing, Teaching Hartford, CT
Stormtrap عاصفه Music, Sound, Lyrics Palestine
Sylvia Posadas Music, poetry, writing, activism Australia
Tamer Abu Ghazaleh Music Palestine
Tashweesh Audio-Visual Group Palestine
The Rust Belt Ramblers Americana Band Chicago, IL
Van Thanh Rudd Visual Arts, Activist Melbourne, Australia
Endorsements from Allied Organizations:
US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israeli (USACBI)
BRICUP
PSCABI
Existence is Resistance
Tadamon, Montreal
