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On this day in 1976, six Palestinians were murdered by Israel’s apartheid forces as they took part in non-violent protests against the theft of their land. Every March 30th, Indigenous Palestinians commemorate Land Day in honor of the struggle against Israeli settler-colonial oppression and for freedom, justice and equality. Israel has continued for decades its policies of land theft, forcible transfer and erasure of Palestinians.

  As Palestinians struggling for our rights under the violent oppression of Israeli apartheid, the constant fight to simply exist and be who we are weighs heavily on us. But we won’t give up.  Artists like you have stood in the face of hateful discrimination, empowering many worldwide.

Palestinians call to boycott apartheid Israel’s Summer In The City music festival and urge all international artists to withdraw, just as progressive artists boycotted apartheid South Africa.  Performing in apartheid Tel Aviv and crossing the Palestinian picket line – regardless of intentions – whitewashes apartheid Israel’s oppression of millions of Palestinians.

With its most far-right, fundamentalist and corrupt government ever, Israel is increasingly looking like a #ShutDownNation. We recently published 17 reasons to think again before investing in apartheid Israel. Below are 12 new reasons (+1 ongoing) to divest:

As the 2023 edition of Israel Apartheid Week (IAW 2023) enters its last days, the International Coordination Committee of IAW 2023 sends its warmest wishes of a blessed Ramadan to all those observing and celebrating this holy month. 

Following the cancellation of a major international conference on behavioral economics which was to be held at the Hebrew University, Palestinians call for intensifying academic boycotts of complicit Israeli institutions to help end Israel’s regime of apartheid and settler-colonialism.

Palestinians call for boycotting apartheid Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to London this weekend, as a step towards ending entrenched UK complicity in Israel’s 75-year-old settler-colonial regime and system of oppression against Indigenous Palestinians.

The following letter was sent to the 2023 recipients of Israel's Dan David Prize Dear Dr. Saheed Aderinto, Dr. Ana Antic, Dr. Karma Ben Johanan, Dr. Elise K. Burton, Dr. Adam Clulow, Dr. Krista Goff, Dr. Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers, Dr. Anita Radini, Chao Tayiana Maina,

Photo: Huwara by Activestills. Jewish Israeli protests against the far-right Israeli government – the most openly racist, sexist, fundamentalist and homophobic in its history – continue to reach new heights. 

Français  Italiano As Israel’s apartheid regime, under its most racist, fundamentalist government ever, ramps up its violent oppression of Palestinians, two of the world’s top cycling races are going out of their way to help Israel sportswash its crimes. The Giro d’Italia (6-28 May) and the Tour de France (1-23 July) have extended special “wildcard” invitations to the Israeli government-sponsored cycling team.

BREAKING: Racist Israeli film fund, the Rabinovich Foundation, will reportedly end its insistence that filmmakers seeking its support must sign a loyalty oath to deny in their films the reality of Israeli apartheid and ethnic cleansing against Indigenous Palestinians.

As Palestinians, we salute scholar Sophie Grace Chappell for her principled decision to withdraw from the Anti-theory in the Philosophy of Science and Ethics conference in apartheid Israel.