At least 111 Palestinians including 80 children have died of induced starvation in Gaza. Thousands more are at imminent risk. Genocidal Israel is using starvation as a weapon against Palestinians in Gaza, killing 1,000 at so-called food distribution points.
Yet, after 21+ months of a livestreamed genocide, many international academic, cultural and sports institutions, particularly in the colonial West, have still failed to end their complicity in Israel’s genocide, and in some cases have deepened it.
Palestinians call on the tens of thousands of artists, academics, cultural workers, students, writers, athletes, and sportsplayers supporting our movement to escalate their peaceful disruption of this complicity, for Gaza and for humanity!
In this darkest moment in Palestinian history, PACBI’s 20 years of campaigning alongside global partners is beginning to isolate genocidal Israel.
Many universities, cultural festivals, associations, unions, sports clubs and bodies, pride marches and queer organizations, among others, have ended their complicity with apartheid Israel.
Together, we are exacting a heavy price against genocidal Israel, working strategically and urgently building grassroots power to change the policies of states that enable genocide and apartheid.
Everyone–including scholars, artists and athletes–has a profound ethical responsibility to allow no harm to be done in their name. This means speaking out and pressuring institutions, corporations, and states to end complicity.
It means pledging to refuse to allow your work to be used to whitewash Israel’s genocide and underlying, decades-old regime of settler-colonial apartheid.
It means organising at the grassroots level to push unions, universities, associations and institutions to end complicity through their procurement, pensions, endowments, and investments, as well as their partnerships with complicit Israeli institutions.
It means demonstrations and peaceful disruptions to end business-as-usual during genocide.
Solidarity with the oppressed begins with ending the complicity of institutions, corporations and states that enable the system of oppression.
Escalate for Gaza! No business-as-usual during genocide.