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Arts Palestine
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Leading artists disengage from British venue that censored Palestine
Portishead’s Geoff Barrow and Adrian Utley, Massive Attack’s Robert del Naja, writers Alice Oswald, Nikesh Shukla, Shon Faye, Travis Alabanza and Rachel Holmes are among many of Bristol’s artists who have written a letter accusing the iconic Arnolfini International Centre for Contemporary Arts of “censorship of Palestinian culture”.
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Service of thanksgiving for journalist Shireen Abu Akleh to be held at Fleet Street church
A service of thanksgiving for journalist Shireen Abu Akleh is to be held at St Bride’s, Fleet Street, London’s ‘journalists’ church’, on June 28th.
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Palestinian artists & cultural organisations call on internationals to cancel engagements in Israel
“Two years ago, just a short drive from apartheid Tel Aviv, Israel destroyed an important cultural centre in Gaza, the Said al-Mishal, with targeted airstrikes. Violations and abuses against Palestinian musicians, poets, actors and other artists are commonplace, including in occupied East Jerusalem.
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Leading artists condemn Israeli raids on Palestinian cultural centres & call for sanctions
Steve Coogan, Peter Gabriel, Massive Attack, Benjamin Zephaniah, Maxine Peake and Philip Pullman are among 60+ cultural figures to put their names to an open letter condemning attacks on key Palestinian cultural centres.
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Aldeburgh DocFest disinvites author, invites Israel lobby CEO to discuss ‘GAZA’
On Sunday, Aldeburgh Documentary Festival will host a discussion that follows a screening of the acclaimed documentary ‘GAZA’, a film about Palestinian lives in the besieged enclave. Extraordinarily, the panel is advertised to include the CEO of the UK’s biggest pro-Israel public relations group, BICOM (British Israel Communications and Research). Clearly something has gone very…
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‘UK government must end isolation of artists from Gaza’: hundreds of academics and artists speak out
The letter below criticises the UK government’s shameful ‘hostile environment’ policy, as it impacts on artists, and in particular artists from Gaza. Israel’s policies have brought Gaza to the brink of economic, social and ecological collapse. To refuse visas to individuals who use all their efforts to be productive and creative in the face of…
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Artswatch Palestine: December – March 2019
Our digest of news from Israel’s cultural war against the Palestinians
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Artswatch Palestine: September- November 2018
Palestinian author Susan Abulhawa (pictured) was on her way to Palestine Literature Festival when she was denied entry to her homeland, held in a prison cell, then flown back to the United States. Our digest of news from Israel’s cultural war against the Palestinians Dareen Tatour Dareen Tatour, Palestinian poet and citizen of Israel, was…
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Artswatch Palestine: June-August 2018
Artswatch: June-August report-
*Gaza – The War Against Culture.
*Gaza – The War Over Meaning
*Gaza – The Forbidden Subject
*Tatour – The Forbidden Poet
*Nakba – The Forbidden History
*Daniel Barenboim: Israel Is An Apartheid State
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Award-winning director withdraws film from Seret London Israel Film & TV Festival
“I do not want my film, or my name, to be used to portray an image of Israel as a “melting pot of cultures and religions”.
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Artswatch Palestine: October – December 2017
Our regular report on Israel’s war on Palestinian cultural life and expression.
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Artswatch Palestine: August-September 2017
Not the Radiohead Experience
A musician from East Jerusalem said Israeli officials jeopardised his band’s UK tour last week by withholding his electric guitar at security at Ben-Gurion Airport
Apo Sahagian, the lead singer of Apo and the Apostles, said security officials held his guitar back for further testing, promising that it would be on the next EasyJet flight to Luton, but after three days there was still no sign.
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Artswatch Palestine: June-July 2017
Our regular report on Israel’s war on Palestinian cultural life and expression. In this edition:
* How Israel maintains a free and thriving press
* Tatour – progress measured in small victories
* Theatre under seige in Acre
* Mohammed Bakri in France
* On not crossing borders (1): Gaza to Nablus is an impassable road
* On not crossing borders (2): the visa problems of a Palestinian photographer
* On not crossing borders (3): Thom Yorke and Abu Rahss -
Artswatch Palestine: April-May 2017
Artswatch Palestine: April-May 2017.
* Pinkwashing rejected
* The trial of Dareen Tatour
* The detention of Abu Sakha
* The banning of International Women’s Day
* A war of aggression on Amazon
* Ten years of PalFest
* On the red carpet in Gaza
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Save the First Drama School in Palestine from Closure
Ashtar is faced with financial crisis. The theatre needs to raise £40,000 to keep its premises open.
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Artswatch Palestine: February-March 2017
ARTWATCH DIGEST: FEBRUARY – MARCH 2017
* Raiding Jenin
* Raiding Aida
* Shutting down a Theatre
* Controlling the film industry
* Putting poetry on trial
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ARTSWATCH December 2016 – January 2017
Regev Watch Miri Regev, Israel’s Minister of Culture and Sport, has commented , 27th December, on the change of presidency in the United States: ‘Obama is history,’ said Regev. ‘We have Trump.’ Christian Viveros-Fauné, writing in Artnet, suggests that ‘like Trump, the Likud politician consistently engages in a brazen, counter-factual brand of right-wing populism’. Viveros-Fauné charts the growing scope…
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Call for support for ‘Ambulance’ director Mohamed Jabaly
ARTISTS FOR PALESTINE UK STATEMENT The Norwegian Directorate of Immigration (UDI) and the Norwegian Immigration Tribunal have refused to grant Palestinian film-maker Mohamed Jabaly a work visa to allow him to tour with his first film, Ambulance (2016), and to make a second film with his Norwegian producers, in Tromsø, Norway. Artists for Palestine UK (APUK)…
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Mohammad Abu Sakha: in prison for making children happy
One year after he was arrested by Israeli forces, Palestinian circus teacher Mohammad Abu Sakha (pictured,on left) is still behind bars, and without charges.
