May | 2011 | PACBI

Boycott!! Frameline Film Festival Pinkwashing Israeli Apartheid

News and Opinion | PQBDS Posted on May 31, 2011

Occupied Palestine For the second year in a row, and after a short break, the San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival, the largest queer cultural event in the world, shamefully continues taking funding from the Israeli Consulate, violating the Boycott, [...]

August Burns Red Have Cancelled Their Planned Concert in Israel

News and Opinion | Posted on May 31, 2011

PRESS RELEASE August Burns Red, a phenomenally popular Christian metalcore band, has just cancelled their June 9 concert in Israel. “They have no plans to reschedule,” says a reliable source that must remain anonymous. They cancelled because they do [...]

Stallman does not blame Palestinians for boycott

News and Opinion | ITWire Posted on May 31, 2011

Free Software Foundation founder Richard Stallman says that he does not blame Palestinians for their non-violent boycott of Israel which resulted in him having to cancel some talks scheduled in Israel. Stallman had been invited to speak in some Palestinian [...]

Hiding Behind Governments: Artists Undermining the Boycott of Israel

PACBI Statements, Risala Editorials | Posted on May 31, 2011

Even while many artists, musicians and cultural workers refuse to entertain apartheid Israel, there continues to be those who try to find currency to circumvent the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement. Most recently, the Swedish pop music duo, Roxette, [...]

US activist, poet and singer dies

News and Opinion | Posted on May 29, 2011

US poet and songwriter Gil Scott-Heron, credited with helping to inspire the development of rap, has died at the age of 62. Doris C Nolan, a friend of Scott-Heron‘s, told the Associated Press news agency on Friday that the artist died [...]

Groove Column: on not DJing in Israel (April 2011)

News and Opinion | Groove Magazine Posted on May 29, 2011

A funny old day on Twitter. A quick message applauding Beatport’s donation of a day’s profits towards Japan’s relief effort is re-tweeted a hundred times. Simultaneously, I am arguing with friends about the ethics of DJing in Israel. When the [...]

Council refutes media-claims regarding the Israeli boycott

News and Opinion | Posted on May 25, 2011

West Dunbartonshire Council utterly refutes recent media claims that it has ‘launched a boycott on Israeli books’. The Council’s boycott does not in any way seek to censor or silence authors and commentators from Israel. The Council’s boycott only relates [...]