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In 2022, Palestinian popular resistance and global solidarity manifested like never before, despite the escalating violence and oppression of the Israeli government. 🧵
In a year where Palestinian cities were placed under siege and over 200 Palestinians were killed, we saw how Palestinians faced each new assault and global support flourished. As Zionism is articulated with more clarity, so does the enduring call for a liberated Palestine.
Palestinian flags were seen more than any other at the world cup in a huge blow to those who pushed for normalization with the Israeli government and deeply moving to witness.
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Palestinians call on participating artists to boycott the Red Sea Jazz Festival, just as festivals in apartheid South Africa were boycotted.

@jacobcollier @ESzczerbo @Cory_Henry @TaRonLockett

#BoycottRedSeaJazzFestival #RedSeaJazzFestival

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The Red Sea Jazz Festival, like all Israeli cultural institutions, benefits directly from Israel’s decades-old regime of apartheid, military occupation and settler-colonialism.
Since its founding it has failed to distance itself from this system of oppression against the Palestinian people or to uphold comprehensive Palestinian rights under international law.
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Inspired by the international boycott movement that helped bring down apartheid in South Africa, Palestinian civil society, including almost its entire arts and culture community, has called for a cultural boycott of Israel since 2004.

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In 2010, reacting to the Cape Town Opera’s plan to ignore the boycott and perform in Tel Aviv, South African anti-apartheid leader, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, said ...
“Just as we said during apartheid that it was inappropriate for international artists to perform in South Africa in a society founded on discriminatory laws and racial exclusivity, so it would be wrong for Cape Town Opera to perform in Israel”.
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Palestinians call on @Rawayana to refuse to artwash apartheid Israel.

Rawayana plan a concert at Barby in Tel Aviv, a club that celebrates Israeli occupation forces massacring Palestinians.
On the day Israel murdered 16 Palestinians sheltering in an UN school in besieged Gaza, Barby handed out t-shirts with the club’s logo and the words “F— you, we’re from Israel” to armed colonial forces.
More than 1,500 artists including Arca, Lido Pimienta and Ana Tijoux have joined the fast-growing Musicians for Palestine initiative, “refusing to perform at Israel’s complicit cultural institutions.”
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Palestinians call on all international music industry professionals to boycott the Israel Music Showcase Festival. bdsmovement.net/news/israel-mu…
Israel Music Showcase Festival is an attempt by Israel’s apartheid regime to whitewash its colonial oppression against Palestinians and should be avoided by all progressives.

Its main sponsor is the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which is directly involved in war crimes.
In May 2021 alone, Israeli occupation forces killed at least 240 Palestinians, including 66 children, in the besieged Gaza Strip, where the majority are refugees from previous rounds of Israeli violence and ethnic cleansing.
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