Tindersticks Cancel Tel Aviv Shows
"When agreeing to play our music in Israel we, perhaps naively, believed that the music we make is beyond political considerations. It is difficult to defy a rapidly growing movement with whose aims we agree, even if we are not wholly convinced by their methods."
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PACBI responds to Nobel laureates' attack on academic boycott
We believe that the Nobel laureates would do well to reflect upon their responsibilities as public figures and to speak truth to power, not reiterate the increasingly vacuous defenses of the centers of colonial power.
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Adalah-NY: Arava Institute, JNF,
Arava Institute was targeted for boycott due to its failure to condemn Israel's on-going ethnic cleansing of Bedouin residents of the Negev desert, and its very close partnerships with the Jewish National Fund (JNF) and the Israeli government.
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PACBI Editorial
Boycott Guidelines Applicable to Visits by International Academics and Artists to the OPT
Some international organizations that are involved in organizing events and activities in cooperation with -- or using the facilities of -- boycottable Israeli institutions and venues have tried to "balance" their involvement in such activities by organizing parallel activities with Palestinian institutions.
PACBI and the entire BDS movement reject any such attempts to break the Palestinian boycott. Any presumed parity between Israel and the Palestinians ignores the concrete reality of Israel's colonial oppression and denies the fact that there can never be symmetry between oppressor and oppressed. Projects premised on such symmetry between the "two sides" are therefore detrimental to the application of international law and the pursuit of justice and comprehensive peace.
The following guidelines, developed through ongoing interaction with the community of Palestinian artists, academics, and BDS activists, represent PACBI's position on this specific means of circumventing and violating the boycott in the academic and cultural fields. We urge international organizations, academics, artists and others to respect these principles and to refrain from undermining them, whether directly or indirectly.
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