'In Katie’s case, a network mobilised to provide her with support, including PACBI - BDS movement, Artists for Palestine UK 🍉, and European Legal Support Center (ELSC) which defends advocates of Palestine. ‘It’s important for workers, artists and orgs to realise that the support & solidarity is there’.'
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After previous boycott actions, including at Curzon Soho, looks like the Israeli film festival is now reduced to screening in a Soho *hotel* rather than a cinema. Boycotts work.

Instead of NUS UK showing any concern of this clear pattern of anti-Palestinian and Islamophobic attacks targeting their Muslim staffers/ students, they have chosen to collaborate with anti-Palestinian actors in coordinated campaigns against them. /5

👏🏽Congratulations to Shaima Dallali who has finally seen the end of her legal battle with NUS UK!
The NUS cleared her of allegations, acknowledging she 'is, and as President of NUS she was, entitled to hold protected beliefs’ including pro-Palestinian & anti-Zionist beliefs. /1

Arundhati Roy on Gaza: N̶e̶v̶e̶r̶ Again scroll.in/article/106486… via Scroll.in

YES! ✊🏾

Watching this now and every speaker is laying into PEN America.
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As a representative from Artists for Palestine UK 🍉 said, “Groups such as UK Lawyers for Israel boast about their impact, but when their efforts are challenged, they generally fail.”

I wrote about the censorship of Palestinian culture in the UK, how this plays out behind the scenes, and how it is being successfully challenged
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Arnolfini speaks out on 'abhorrent loss of life' in Gaza

'Arnolfini says the voices of victims of the ongoing conflict 'need to be heard' as it announces an intention to reflect the importance of freedom of expression in its policies and practices.'
artsprofessional.co.uk/news/arnolfini…

Ethnic cleansing on both sides of the Green Line
#ApartheidIsrael

Champion.

“While positioning herself as a Deep Thinker detached from primitive loyalties, Smith painstakingly tethers expressions of ambiguity to the status quo, the most primal loyalty of all.” stevesalaita.com/our-your-pitif…

Macklemore Dares Others to Stand Up for Palestine

With “Hind’s Hall,” the rapper is telling artists and other culture workers, “The students are risking it all. Where are you?”

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This settlement and joint statement, between Shaima Dallali and the NUS, includes welcome recognition that anti-Zionist beliefs can qualify as a philosophical belief warranting protection under the Equality Act (2010).
ICJP have responded to the news➡️icjpalestine.com/2024/05/07/sha…

I have now resigned as member of Society of Authors. As I wrote in my letter: 'I, for one, cannot imagine being in a room with people who could not bring themselves to condemn an ongoing genocide of children.'

A short thread

'In Katie’s case, a network mobilised to provide her with support, including PACBI - BDS movement, Artists for Palestine UK 🍉, and European Legal Support Center (ELSC) which defends advocates of Palestine. ‘It’s important for workers, artists and orgs to realise that the support & solidarity is there’.'
tribunemag.co.uk/2024/04/making…

@Macklemore just dropped the song of the year . This is our anthem now