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Genocidal Israel’s cultural isolation grows as it ramps up manipulation and threats
From Eurovision to Hollywood and the Venice Biennale, artists and cultural workers increasingly reject links of complicity with genocidal Israel – which resorts to interference, intimidation and bribery as it continues its genocide against Palestinians in Gaza
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Unwrapping Spotify: Profiting from Apartheid, Genocide, and Racist Deportations
PACBI endorses the growing, organic consumer boycott of Spotify, which directly profits from artist exploitation, systems of mass deportation, apartheid, and genocide.
Boycott Emirates Airline Festival of Literature 2026
The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI), a founding member of the largest coalition in Palestinian society that leads the global BDS movement, calls upon all conscientious Arab and international authors to withdraw from the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature 2026, which is scheduled to begin on January 21, 2026.
Live Nation: Artwashing Israel’s Live-Streamed Genocide
PACBI calls for pressure on Live Nation Entertainment, including strategic, targeted boycotts, until it takes meaningful steps to account for its deep complicity in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza—especially by dropping its subsidiary Live Nation Israel that openly supports the genocidal Israeli military and artwashes apartheid.
Palestinians Condemn Peter Beinart’s Event at Tel Aviv University in the Midst of Israel’s Genocide in Gaza
The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) condemns journalist and City University of New York faculty member Peter Beinart’s decision to speak at Tel Aviv University (TAU) today, particularly during Israel’s ongoing, live-streamed genocide of millions of Palestinians in Gaza.
Palestinians Urge Boycott of 2025 Islamic Archaeology Conference Normalizing Israeli Apartheid and Genocide
Once again, the Islamic Archaeology Conference is in violation of the BDS movement’s anti-normalization guidelines. Furthermore, it includes speakers from Israeli institutions illegally based on occupied Palestinian land.
PACBI guidelines on complicit Israeli films
In response to growing demand from film workers, as well as BDS activists globally, the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel lays out how BDS guidelines apply to complicit Israeli films and TV productions.
South African Medical Association Cuts Ties With Israeli Medical Association
The South African Medical Association (SAMA) has voted to end all ties with the deeply complicit Israeli Medical Association (IMA). SAMA further calls for the IMA to be suspended from the World Medical Association.
Palestinians Urge University of Ljubljana to Withdraw Support from Conference with Complicit Technion
We call on the University of Ljubljana Faculty of Mechanical Engineering to withdraw all support from the ICAMPP conference, co-organized together with the Technion, a deeply complicit Israeli technical institute.
Boycott “Standing Together” for Whitewashing Israel’s Genocide and Apartheid
“The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.” — Steve Biko, South African anti-apartheid leader
Greek institutions say NO to European Society of Criminology’s support for Israel’s crimes against Palestinians
Panteion University and the Athens municipality have withdrawn support from the EUROCRIM 2025 conference.
European Association of Archaeologists Is Welcoming Scholars Knowingly Participating in a War Crime
The EAA is welcoming scholars from Hebrew University, which is partially built on land illegally expropriated from Palestinians in Israeli-occupied East Jerusalem, to its annual meeting, Sept 2-6.