2021 was the deadliest year since 2014, Israel killed 319 Palestinians in the Occupied Territories;
5-year record in house demolitions: 895 Palestinians lost their homes. >
The @sydney_festival told Palestinians + artist allies asking them to drop the partnership with the Israeli regime that they're now working on a medium-to-long term policy re: future partnerships. Is this not an admission that the current one is deeply unethical? Why not act now?
We pay our ✨respects✨ to the Traditional Owners of the land on which we hold our Festival of Gentrification 🥳
But we do 🙅♀️ not 🙅♀️ care for those currently experiencing 🤨genocide🤨 or 🧐dispossession🧐
Our 🌈 festival 🌈 will go ahead as planned 😌
- @sydney_festival
After listening to the calls to boycott the @Sydney_Festival over its decision to accept funding from and partner with the Embassy of Israel, I have decided to withdraw from my scheduled performance at the Festival's Gala Comedy Night, in solidarity.
To clarify, yes, I am boycotting Sydney Festival 2022. The Israeli Embassy, a star sponsor of Sydfest 2022, collaborates with Western cultural institutions to paint Israel as a liberal democracy on one hand while enforcing brutal occupation and apartheid with the other. No more.
The federal government could have purchased rapid tests directly and made them free. Instead they have allowed them to become a marketable product and in doing so are lining the hip pockets of billionaires like Gerry Harvey, at a direct cost to public health.
War Criminals receive knighthoods while those that exposed their crimes #JulianAssange languish in maximum security jail facing extradition and a 175 year sentence #FreeAssangeNOW
https://t.co/p7p5dLirKp
We are examining the enemy occupier's theft order to determine which parts of the land it purports to confiscate, but this provides some general context for how the occupier uses "legal" subterfuge to strip Palestinians of their land all over the West Bank https://t.co/EeozwoVOSF
"Israel" has ordered the confiscation of my family's land in the West Bank village of Battir, some planted with olives. It's been in our family for generations. It's registered & taxes are paid. No Palestinian is safe from a criminal entity whose whole existence is based on theft
Simply unbearable. An outrage against our common humanity, viciously repeated day after day.
And yet, a chorus chants: Disputed land. Counter-terrorism. Two sides. Pallywood. No such thing as a Palestinian. Judea and Samaria. No partner for peace. Incitement in textbooks.