The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic & Cultural Boycott of Israel challenges Israeli apartheid via academic, cultural, sports & anti-pinkwashing campaigns.
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.
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.
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.
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. 
The #sportswashing panel will be chaired by Shireen Ahmed, a multi-platform sports journalist, a TEDx speaker, mentor, and an award-winning sports activist who focuses on the intersections of racism and misogyny in sports. 
"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." 
The conference organisers, the @goetheinstitut, had disinvited renowned Palestinian poet and journalist @m7mdkurd, leading to an inspiring display of solidarity from renowned literary and public figures, including Ijeoma Oluo, @mohammedhanif and others. 
Israel has bombed and demolished Palestinian schools and universities, carried out military raids on campuses, prevented travel to campus and abroad for scholarships, and restricts entry for int'l faculty members and students wishing to teach or study at Palestinian universities. 
"Creative Community for Peace" may talk of "building bridges," but a leaked, confidential report shows it considers intersectionality and solidarity between Palestinians and Black Americans "a troubling and growing trend" that it needs to counter. 