A Jewish film festival has been kicked out of its home at a London theatre after the venue refused to host an event with sponsorship from the Israeli government.

Les universités israéliennes qui ont depuis des décennies joué un rôle clé dans la planification, l’implémentation, la justification et le blanchiment des politiques racistes et colonialistes du régime israélien d’occupation, de colonialisme de peuplement et d’apartheid, ont une fois de plus montré leur complicité dans l’agression génocide d’Israël contre 1, 8 million de Palestiniens dans la bande de Gaza occupée et assiégée.

As we write this statement, 25 days after the brutal incursion on Gaza, over a thousand and four hundred of innocent civilian women, men and children have been butchered by Israel’s war machine and much more are threatened to be killed. The call for raping Palestinian women by the so-called “Bar-Illan University Arabic Literature Professor” teaches us, once again, that Israeli “scholars” and “academic institutions” are an organic and integral part of the Zionist colonial project

The ongoing slaughter in Gaza has brought a great many artists, musicians and celebrities out in support of Palestine. This is nothing new. In fact, every major Israeli offensive seems to grow the number of artists willing to speak up and stand against the crimes of the apartheid state.