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05 May 2015
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OVER 100 UK ARTISTS BACK ISRAEL CULTURAL BOYCOTT INCLUDING HARRY POTTER'S MIRIAM MARGOLYES
Earlier this year over 100 UK artists publicly backed the cultural boycott of Israel including Harry Potter's Miriam Margolyes, director Mike Leigh, musician Brian Eno and Pink Floyd's Roger Waters. The list also included Gillian Slovo the UK-based South African film-director, author a daughter of anti-apartheid icon Joe Slovo. Click here for more information.
 
 

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US R&B ARTIST LAURYN HILL CANCELS ISRAEL GIG AFTER PALESTINIAN BDS CALLS
US Grammy-winning rapper and R&B singer Lauryn Hill has canceled her upcoming Israeli gig following Palestinian BDS cultural boycott calls from her fans and supporters. The former lead vocalist of The Fugees made the announcement via her official Facebook page. Several Israeli Jews were part of those who made the call to Lauryn Hill to cancel her Israeli show. In recent years a growing number of progressive Israelis have began to support the BDS campaign.

In 2005 Palestinians called for a non-violent boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaign of Israel until it ends its violations of international law. Lauryn Hill joins a growing list of artists who have pulled out of shows in Israel and supported the Palestinian BDS cultural boycott of Israel including Sinéad O’Connor, Elvis Costello, Gil Scott-Heron, Talib Kweli, Moddi, Faithless, Carlos Santana and Stevie Wonder.

The news of Lauryn Hill's cancellation comes as the local BDS movement in South Africa is making contact with another US R&B artist, Pharrell Williams, urging him to postpone his upcoming collaboration with Woolworths due to the retailer's trade with Israel. Click here for more information.
 
ISRAEL HIT HARD BY BDS CULTURAL BOYCOTT
 
Eyal Sher, the director of the flagship Israeli-government-backed cultural program, the "Israel Festival", recently revealed that he has had to curtail the festival's 2015 schedule due to the growing impact of the BDS cultural boycott, especially in the wake of Israel’s killing more than 2000 Palestinians in Gaza last August.
 
Speaking to the Israeli publication Mako, Eyal Sher said: “This year’s [Israel] Festival was produced with a shortened schedule against the background of Operation Protective Edge and had to face, like many cultural and academic bodies in the country, BDS [boycott divestment and sanctions].” Operation Protective Edge is the name Israel gave its 51-day assault on the Palestinian Gaza Strip last year that killed more than 2,200 Palestinians, including 547 children. Click here for more information.
 
 
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