Emel Mathlouthi

  • Award-winning Young Fathers become 8th act to cancel Pop-Kultur

    Young Fathers, the Mercury Award-winning group from Edinburgh, have announced their withdrawal from Berlin Pop-Kultur to protest the festival’s acceptance of sponsorship from the Israeli Embassy in German y.

    Young Fathers are the third group of UK artists, and the eighth in total, to withdraw from Pop-Kultur in solidarity with Palestinians living under occupation and in exile.  The band, who performed in M.I.A.’s Meltdown Festival at the London Southbank in June 2017, issues the following statement –

  • Cancellation of my participation at POP-KULTUR Festival

    Annie Goh is is the 6th artist to withdraw from Berlin’s Pop-Kutur over sponsorship by Israel. She issued the following statement via Facebook today, in which aside from making clear the reasons for the decision, she criticises the misinformation put out by Pop-Kultur’s organisers regarding the BDS movement,  and attacks as ‘despicable’ smears against the four Arab artists who withdrew from the festival (their principled statements are reproduced on our blog here).

  • Don’t play Berlin Pop-Kultur under Israeli Embassy sponsorship!

    AN OPEN LETTER TO ALL UK MUSICIANS SCHEDULED TO APPEAR IN BERLIN AUGUST 23 – 25, 2017
    ***UPDATE:
    Iklan, featuring Law Holt, are the first UK band to respond to Palestinians’ appeal to withdraw from Israeli-sponsored festival 17.08.2017

    Brian Eno and Roger Waters have told Artists for Palestine UK they endorse APUK’s open letter (below) to Pop-Kultur musicians 17.08.2017

    Dear colleagues:
    When you signed up to play Berlin Pop-Kultur, you possibly didn’t know that the Israeli Embassy in Germany was a sponsor.   Maybe you also don’t know that Palestinian civil society, living under Israeli military occupation or in exile, is appealing to artists not to take part in events sponsored by the state of Israel, in solidarity with the Palestinians’ long struggle for rights and freedom.