2010 | PACBI

An open letter from Gaza to Thomas Quasthoff: Do not Forget the Gaza Concentration Camp and “Tell It like It Is!”

News and Opinion | Posted on December 31, 2010

Dear Mr. Thomas Quasthoff, We are a group of artists, singers, academics and students from Gaza, and our only fault is being Palestinians. For that, Mr. Quasthoff, we are imprisoned with our families and loved ones in what even main-stream [...]

The Challenge for 2011: Start implementing the academic boycott of Israel

PACBI Statements, Risala Editorials | Posted on December 30, 2010

If 2010 witnessed an exceptional growth of the global BDS movement, especially in the cultural and consumer products fields, one of the main challenges facing the movement in 2011 will be to start putting into effect concrete boycott measures against [...]

Vanessa Paradis and Johnny Depp, Please do not allow the state of Israel to use your reputation to whitewash its crimes!

News and Opinion | Posted on December 30, 2010

We are Israeli citizens. It has come to our attention that Ms. Paradis is planning on performing in Israel in March 2011, and that you are both expected to meet Israeli President Shimon Peres. You may not be aware, but [...]

Listen to Our Voice!

PACBI Statements | Posted on December 30, 2010

Ramallah, Occupied Palestine, 30 December 2010 From time to time, the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) brings to the attention of BDS activists, both in Palestine and abroad, Palestinian-Israeli joint activities that, while purporting [...]

Joe, don’t play for Apartheid Israel

News and Opinion | Justice for Palestine-Brisbane Posted on December 29, 2010

Dear Joseph Tawadros, We are writing in advance of your planned performance in the apartheid state of Israel, which we hope you will cancel. The Red Sea Winter Jazz Festival (RSWJF) is sponsored by the Israeli government, which additionally sponsors [...]

On the Second Anniversary of Israel’s Bloodbath in Gaza: End International Complicity, Intensify BDS

BNC News, News and Opinion | Posted on December 27, 2010

Occupied Palestine, 27 December 2010 – On the morning of 27 December 2008 Israeli forces initiated a 23-day military offensive against the occupied and besieged Gaza Strip killing more than 1400 and injuring over 5000 Palestinians, predominantly civilians and refugees [...]