Monthly Archives: October 2013

This OPEN LETTER asks Turkish singer Sabahat Akkiraz, who performs folk and Sufi music (here in a Palestinian keffiyeh )to cancel her gig in apartheid Israel.   Akkiraz is on twitter at https://twitter.com/sabahatakkiraz   Dear Sabahat Akkiraz and band members Tayyar Erdem, [...]

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES  With 7 votes against and 5 in favor, the UCLA Undergraduate Students Association Council voted last night to defeat a resolution that threatened the ability for students to pursue divestment from companies tied to the [...]

An Israeli flag flying outside a Doha sports complex during the staging of an international swimming event was removed after complaints from some residents in Qatar, it was reported. The Israeli flag had been flying outside Doha’s Hamad Aquatic Center [...]

 New York, NY, October 22 – Human rights advocates today added to revelations reported in The Jewish Daily Forward this week about the new Hollywood entertainment industry group Creative Community for Peace (CCFP). CCFP campaigns against a cultural boycott of Israel, and claims to oppose [...]

In a hard-hitting new interview for Le Mur a des Oreilles, a program on Belgian stationRadioPanik, Palestinian actor Saleh Bakri (seen in the above trailer for Annemarie Jacir’s When I Saw You) delivers his clearest statement yet of his political commitment and [...]

    Mr. Charles Aznavour c/o EMI Music France 118 rue du Mont Cenis 75891 Paris Cedex 18   Dear Mr Aznavour,    In January 2011 you received the Scopus prize from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.   In February 2011 [...]

Israel is ramping up its efforts to fight the growing campaign of boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS). Anshel Pfeffer reveals in Haaretz this weekend: Today’s battle is BDS – the boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign being waged against Israel. Significant efforts are being invested [...]