250+ artists urge UK theatres to end Bloomberg Philanthropies ties over Israel war crimes
Playwrights Caryl Churchill, Sabrina Mahfouz, and Hannah Khalil and actors Alex Lawther and Billy Howle are among 262 artists calling on five leading British theatres to end partnerships with Bloomberg Philanthropies over its ties to Israel.
Bloomberg Philanthropies funds the Bloomberg-Sagol Center for City Leadership at Tel Aviv University. The centre provides leadership training to mayors and municipal officials, including those governing illegal settlements in Palestine’s occupied West Bank. The letter sets out new evidence documenting the centre’s complicity in a “violent project of settlement that the International Court of Justice has declared to be a war crime”.