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Occupation magazine - Activism Home page  back Print  Send To friend BDS campaign against the Red Sea Jazz Festival re-launched From: Tali Shapiro, Campaign Leader, 10 Reasons for a Cultural Boycott of Israel Tell musicians: Don`t entertain apartheid Israel! Update #42: Red Sea Jazz Festival BDS petition reopened! The Jazz exploitation season is upon us again! So we`re re-opening the petition. Everyone please SIGN and if you already have, please SHARE via email and your social networks. Once again a new list of artists is enlisted for the whitewashing of Israel`s military occupation: Samuel Yirga Quartet, Luisa Sobral, Juan Carmona quintet & Larry Coryell, Możdżer Danielsson Fresco Trio, Escalandrum, and The Steve Shehan Sunshine Quartet. We`re happy, however, to see less and less artists and no returning artists, this season. The Red Sea Jazz Festival is a bi-yearly event in Israel`s city of Eilat. The festival could have been a festival to celebrate the free spirit of Jazz music, and this beautiful tradition of oppressed minorities. Instead, it is a government event of propaganda, which uses Jazz music as a tool for whitewashing military occupation, apartheid and oppression of the Palestinian people: `We see culture as a Hasbara [public relations] tool of the first rank, and I do not differentiate between Hasbara and culture` ~ Nissim Ben-Sheetrit, former deputy director general of the Israel Foreign Ministry In view of this, we ask Jazz Musicians: Please cancel your participation in the festival. We ask people from all around the world: Add your signature to this ongoing campaign to boycott the Red Sea Jazz Festival. More detailed information on the petition page http://links.causes.com/s/clOpYW?r=gJHs https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?shva=1#inbox/1438b7f2b1b2d8b1 Signed, 10 Reasons for a Cultural Boycott of Israel Links to the latest articles in this section Israelis support Russian opposition to the Ukraine War All to Burin this Friday! Stand with the Palestinians against settler violence! The burial of ashes - an emotionally loaded day