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The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic & Cultural Boycott of Israel challenges Israeli apartheid via academic, cultural, sports & anti-pinkwashing campaigns.
Jul 19, 2023 9 tweets 2 min read
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”.
Jan 10, 2023 6 tweets 3 min read
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.

loom.ly/PJR_Zyk 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.

loom.ly/DD4NE8Q
Nov 7, 2022 11 tweets 4 min read
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

bdsmovement.net/news/boycott-r… 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.
Nov 7, 2022 13 tweets 3 min read
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.

@vieuxfarkatoure bdsmovement.net/news/vieux-far… 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 ...
Nov 6, 2022 5 tweets 3 min read
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.
Nov 3, 2022 16 tweets 4 min read
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.
Oct 12, 2022 6 tweets 4 min read
Ahead of the #WorldCup, we're co-hosting an expert panel w/ @PSCupdates to discuss #sportswashing by human rights abusing states, including apartheid Israel, & how to support those resisting repression.

Oct 18, 8pm Palestine, 6pm BST, 12pm ET.

Register: bit.ly/CamouflagingIn… 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.
Sep 9, 2022 5 tweets 7 min read
This is solidarity! ✊🏾

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!

Read their statement: loom.ly/Kx6Ctg8 "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."
Jun 23, 2022 5 tweets 3 min read
We warmly welcome the withdrawal of the many international writers and public figures from the Beyond the Lone Offender conference in Hamburg -- which has been almost entirely cancelled as a result of its organisers' complicity in Germany's shameful anti-Palestinian racism. 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.
Mar 11, 2022 4 tweets 3 min read
We salute the graduate & undergraduate students at Georgetown University who successfully prevented $30,000 in student funding from being used for an itrek propaganda trip to apartheid Israel.
bit.ly/3tRWdZu 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.
Nov 2, 2021 10 tweets 5 min read
A reminder of who's behind the letter opposing queer filmmakers who support the call from Palestinian queers not to participate in Israeli gov-sponsored TLVFest and to reject Israel's pinkwashing of its apartheid regime.

jewishvoiceforpeace.org/2018/10/ccpfis… "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.
bdsmovement.net/news/ccfpfraud