Updates from the palestinian BDS (UK)
More than 150,000 people, hundreds of artists and over 100 LGBT+ organizations joined our calls to boycott Eurovision 2019
The conference violates anti-normalisation guidelines agreed on by the vast majority of Palestinian civil society since 2007.
Front group for Israel lobby organization StandWithUs admits: “The cultural boycott movement is constantly growing and changing, developing new and innovative tactics to reach artists”. Read and share their confidential report.
Eight international chefs, all women, are set to participate in the Round Tables festival
Quotes from signatories of Boycott Eurovision 2019 artists’ letter published in The Guardian.
More than 140 artists from Europe and beyond support the appeal from Palestinian artists to boycott the contest next year. Quotes from signatories here.
Palestinian civil society issues a statement urging the UK Labour Party and trade unions to reject IHRA’s false, anti-Palestinian definition of antisemitism which seeks to conflate antisemitism with criticism of Israel. This definition aims to silence criticism of Israeli policies that clearly violate Palestinian human rights.