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Introduction

Artists’ Pledge

Over 1,170 people from across the UK arts have added their name to the Artists’ Pledge for Palestine. Read the pledge, the FAQs, and add your name. Read more →

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Artists as ‘ambassadors’ for NGOs: on what terms?
We are making public an edited version of our most recent letter to Oxfam.

'Dear Oxfam,
We’ve been reflecting on Oxfam’s unwillingness to take any kind of stand against Baaba Maal’s imminent performance in occupied East Jerusalem. Your last letter to Artists for Palestine UK said, ‘Oxfam’s policy does not extend to supporting a boycott of Israel’. But this is to misunderstand the meaning of Baaba Maal’s action and its very real challenge to Oxfam policy Read more →

Artswatch

DIGEST: AUGUST 2016
Borders closed to musicians from Gaza
Decisions made by the Israeli authorities have prevented the ‘Palestine Sings’ children’s choir from performing at the Palestine Choral Festival, while Gaza’s most popular band, Dawaween, was not given the exit permits that would have allowed it to perform at the Palestine International Festival Read more →

Artists’ Statements

'Today there’s no question: an artist or intellectual who collaborates with activities funded or approved by the Israeli state is complicit in Israel’s ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians. It’s sad to see distinguished names attached to a collection of worn-out, provenly false cliches. But in the end, it’s a matter of personal conscience and of how seriously people take their art and their responsibility to their public.' Ahdaf Soueif, writer Read more →

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Booklet

Readable, succinct, well-sourced and thoughtfully argued, 'The Case for a Cultural Boycott of Israel' has answers to all the questions you’ve ever been asked, or are ever likely to be asked about a cultural boycott of Israel, in 64 pages. With a foreword by novelist Kamila Shamsie Read more →

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