Palestinians warmly welcome the news that Sam Smith will not be performing in apartheid Israel, and avoiding artwashing or pinkwashing Israel’s oppression against Palestinians. Palestinian civil society organizations, including queer and trans groups, had called on Smith to “keep inspiring those struggling against all forms of racism and discrimination by canceling your performance in apartheid Israel” until Palestinians can enjoy freedom, justice and equal rights.
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For the past twenty years, the Balkan Trafik festival, whose 2023 edition will take place from 27 to 30 April in the Belgian cities of Brussels and Namur, has been committed to the promotion of Balkan cultures, flavours, rhythms and sounds. The program includes intercultural encounters, varied artistic performances and the deconstruction of bias, all under the banner of sustainability.
Palestinian cultural organizations, including theaters and performing arts centers, are calling for “widespread boycotts” of Captain America: New World Order, unless Marvel drops its superhero Sabra AKA Ruth Bat-Seraph, who “personifies” apartheid Israel, from the 2024 film.
The Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC), the largest coalition in Palestinian society, salutes the Belgian city of Liège for its decision to end all ties with Israel citing its regime of “apartheid, colonization and military occupation.”
Norway's capital, Oslo, announced that it will not trade in goods and services produced in areas that are illegally occupied in violation of international law. Its procurement policy will exclude companies that directly or indirectly contribute to Israel’s illegal settlement enterprise - a war crime under international law.
Yet another German court has ruled in favour of supporters of the BDS movement. Citing artistic freedom, the Frankfurt Administrative Court effectively reversed the decision of the city of Frankfurt and the state of Hesse to cancel Roger Waters’ May concert. This is another decisive win for BDS and another humiliating defeat for apartheid Israel’s anti-Palestinian racist supporters in Germany.
Moody’s has finally downgraded apartheid Israel’s credit rating outlook from “positive” to “stable” due to the agency’s recognition of a “deterioration of Israel’s governance” and a “weakening of institutional strength and policy predictability.”
We, the undersigned Palestinian football teams, salute the Indonesian people, who stood against apartheid Israel’s participation in FIFA’s U20 Men’s World Cup. We commend them for their principled solidarity. We also salute the governors of Bali and Central Java for their position that denied apartheid Israel the chance to sportswash its crimes using our beloved sport, football. Your voices inspire us to keep playing and struggling for freedom and justice.
Today, April 17th, is #PalestinianPrisonersDay. On this day, and everyday, the Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC), the largest coalition in Palestinian society, proudly reaffirms our unwavering solidarity with all Palestinian political prisoners in apartheid Israel’s prisons and detention centers.
Since the beginning of the war in early 2022, AXA has condemned Russia's invasion of Ukraine and its devastating human consequences. Yet, where is AXA’s responsibility towards Palestinians living under Israeli apartheid and occupation, for over 74 years? AXA continues to invest in Israeli banks that are on the UN list of corporations involved in Israel’s illegal settlement enterprise in the occupied Palestinian territory.
The Intercept has recently revealed that David Fingold, a pro-Israel investment fund manager, has dubiously invested $500M for Scotiabank in Elbit Systems, an Israeli arms firm involved in war crimes against Palestinians, despite the Canadian bank’s core investment policy of “advancing human rights.”
In recent years, spyware—technology secretly installed on digital devices which covertly collects confidential information about a target—has been exposed as a weapon used by states and companies to monitor, control, manipulate, and repress human rights defenders, including activists, journalists, and lawyers.