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."
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”.
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.”
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.