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TRAUMA IN THE DRESS CIRCLE – WHY BATSHEVA BOYCOTT CONTINUES
Cultural boycott is controversial, sensitive and difficult, there is no doubt about that. So when a member of the public – a drama teacher who was intending to take a group of students to one of this...
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ANGER AT GAZA SLAUGHTER TARGETS SADLER’S WELLS
AN UPDATED NEWS RELEASE FROM THE BRITISH COMMITTEE FOR THE UNIVERSITIES OF PALESTINE AND JEWS FOR BOYCOTTING ISRAELI GOODS NOVEMBER 18 – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ANGER AT GAZA SLAUGHTER TARGETS SADLER’S...
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BRAND ISRAEL EXPOSED AS PLYMOUTH PROTESTS ROUND OFF BATSHEVA UK TOUR
One of many posters used around the country contrasting Israeli freedom of cultural expression with the injustices inflicted upon Palestinians. The last of two nights of peaceful but noisy protest at...
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Jerusalem Quartet faces multiple protests on European tour
Dutch campaigners confronted Israel’s Jerusalem Quartet with a choral protest in Rotterdam on February 12 “This week several families are mourning the recent murder of their children by Israeli Defence...
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BBC PLANS TO CENSOR NIGEL KENNEDY PROM BROADCAST
This picture from the Proms website beautifully illustrates the collaboration between Nigel Kennedy and the young musicians of the Palestine Strings. BBC/Chris Christodoulou In an astonishingly supine...
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NIGEL KENNEDY CONDEMNS BBC’S “CENSORSHIP AND IMPERIAL LACK OF IMPARTIALITY”
The following statement has been issued on behalf of violin maestro Nigel Kennedy in response to the BBC’s decision to censor a remark he made during a Prom concert with young Palestinian musicians on...
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NIGEL KENNEDY LOOKS FORWARD TO END OF “ZIONIST APARTHEID”
Violinist Nigel Kennedy, whose remark about the “apartheid” conditions faced by Palestinians was censored from a BBC Prom concert broadcast, has vigorously defended his comment, adding more fuel to the...
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CALL FROM GAZA TO TOM JONES – SING FOR FREEDOM AND JUSTICE, NOT ISRAELI...
Palestinian musicians from Gaza have issued an eloquent plea to Sir Tom Jones, who supported the South African anti-apartheid movement and recent anti-poverty initiatives, to cancel a planned...
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Sound and fury at the Proms over “apartheid” remark
This article first appeared in the September 2013 issue of the BRICUP Newsletter, http://www.bricup.org.uk Proms collaboration between Kennedy and the young musicians from Palestine Strings.Credit:...
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Jewish Anti-Zionist protesters target Israeli-sponsored film festival
On Saturday evening 2 November, protesters gathered outside a popular northwest London theatre to protest at its hosting of events in an Israeli-sponsored Jewish film festival. The lively and...
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IRISH APPEAL TO CHRIS DE BURGH – GIVE HOPE TO THE CHILDREN OF WAR
J-BIG actively supports a wide range of cultural boycott campaigns, one of the most important of which works to persuade well-known artists not to endorse Israeli Apartheid by performing or allowing...
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PLOT THICKENS ON ZIONIST BULLYING OF TRICYCLE THEATRE
A bullying smear campaign which succeeded in pushing London community theatre the Tricycle into withdrawing its refusal of Israeli Embassy funding for a Jewish film festival reveals the lengths to...
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TIME FOR ARTISTS TO DEFY PRO-ISRAEL CENSORSHIP
Novellist Kamila Shamsie (left) chaired a panel discussion with Tanika Gupta, Antony Lerman, Ofer Neiman and April De Angelis A groundbreaking panel discussion at Amnesty International on October 7...
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PROTEST BRAND ISRAEL THEATRE ‘TERROR SPECIAL’
Sign up here by Tuesday 11th November (10:00 GMT) to protest the participation of European theatres in a Brand Israel exercise led by Israel’s national theatre, Habima. The ‘Terror Special conference’...
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HUNDREDS OF UK ARTISTS PLEDGE: ‘We won’t work with Israeli institutions’
700 UK artist announced on Friday (Feb 13) their pledge not to accept professional invitations to Israel as long as the state continues to deny basic Palestinian rights. Among those who have...
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STATEMENT ON THE BANNING OF A CONCERT BY GILAD ATZMON
Israeli-born saxophonist Gilad Atzmon has been targeted for intimidation by the Zionist zealots of the North West Friends of Israel (NWFOI), resulting in the cancellation of a concert at the Royal...
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