Queer and trans artists turned down work with @PUMA for its #pride campaign in solidarity with the Palestinian call to #BoycottPuma over its complicity in Israeli apartheid. They say no to PUMA's #pinkwashing!
"In solidarity with movements for Palestinian liberation and the global #BDS movement’s #BoycottPuma campaign, we reject @PUMA's offer. We refuse to allow a company that is complicit in Israeli apartheid to use our queer and trans bodies to pinkwash its global brand image."
"Stand in radical solidarity and love with our Palestinian queer and trans siblings, and integrate the analysis of the #BDS campaign into how you choose who to collaborate with during #Pride season and all year long."
BDS Works. Germany's Pop-Kultur Berlin festival bows to BDS pressure!
The German festival has conclusively dropped its years-long partnership with genocidal Israel after at least 20 artists boycotted, starting in 2017.
The sustained victory of the Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Pop-Kultur Berlin, has been conclusively demonstrated by the festival’s total exclusion of the embassy of genocidal Israel from its list of partners for the second year running.
This achievement is important to highlight in Germany in particular, given its shameless partnership in the US-Israeli genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza for which it is facing charges under the Genocide Convention at the International Court of Justice.
Disney’s 2025 film Snow White stars Gal Gadot, who has organized screenings of an Israeli military propaganda movie that attempts to justify the unjustifiable: Israel’s ongoing, livestreamed genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza. 🧵
Gal Gadot has therefore consciously and irrefutably taken up the role of a cultural ambassador for Israel, desperately trying to whitewash its genocide and underlying 76-year-old regime of settler-colonialism and apartheid.
By choosing to directly represent genocidal Israel, Gal Gadot’s films are boycottable. BDS targets institutions, not individuals. Where individuals represent Israel, their activities are subject to the institutional criteria of the BDS movement.
Palestinians are calling to boycott #JerusalemFilmFestival, which is partnered with Israel’s far-right apartheid regime and agencies involved in ethnic cleansing against Indigenous Palestinians.
We urge all participating filmmakers and jury members to withdraw.
Here’s why. 🧵
Jerusalem Film Festival is sponsored by apartheid Israel’s ministry of culture, which sees film and culture as propaganda tools to whitewash human rights violations.
The Israeli government is so far-right that one senior minister describes himself as “a fascist homophobe”.
The festival is also partnered with the Jerusalem Development Authority, which illegally expropriates Palestinian land in occupied East Jerusalem, displacing Palestinians.
It has been instrumental in the expansion of illegal settlements, a war crime under international law.
Harvard’s @Kennedy_School has dishonored its own human rights center and made a mockery of academic freedom by denying a fellowship to Kenneth Roth, because he and @HRW have determined that Israel is guilty of the crime against humanity of apartheid.
Like HRW, Amnesty International, UN Special Rapporteurs, and major Palestinian and South African human rights organizations have reached the conclusion that Israel imposes a system of apartheid against Indigenous Palestinians.
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.
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.
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”.