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Belgian Artists & Cultural Workers For Palestine
# Culture's Newsletter Nr 74 (Winter 2022): click here! ── # Academic Bulletin N°16 (February 2023): click here!
Statement of Principles of the Cultural Boycott:
We, artists, writers and cultural workers, support the Palestinian call for Boycott, Disinvestment and Sanctions (BDS).
With this campaign, we want to express our rejection of the Israeli government's policy of colonization and apartheid. Israeli cultural institutions are part and parcel of the ideological and institutional scaffolding of the Israeli regime of disenfranchisement of Palestine's native inhabitants.
With our call to support BDS, we take responsibility for aiming to bring an end - in a non-violent way - to a policy in which Israel's continuing and repeated violations of international law and human rights remain unpunished. We firmly oppose any form of discrimination and racism, including antisemitism.
Déclaration de principe du boycott culturel:
Nous, artistes, auteurs et travailleurs culturels vivant en Belgique soutenons l'appel palestinien aux Boycott, Désinvestissement et Sanctions (BDS).
Par cette campagne, nous voulons exprimer notre opposition à la politique d'occupation, de colonisation et d'apartheid du gouvernement israélien. Les institutions culturelles israéliennes constituent une composante essentielle de l'infrastructure idéologique et institutionnelle de la puissance d'occupation israélienne. Par cet appel à soutenir les BDS, nous assumons notre responsabilité en vue de hâter de façon non violente la fin d'une politique dans laquelle les violations permanentes des lois internationales et des droits de l'homme demeurent impunies . Nous nous opposons à toute forme de discrimination et de racisme, y compris l'antisémitisme.
Beginselverklaring van de Culturele Boycot:
Wij, kunstenaars, schrijvers en culturele werkers in België, steunen de Palestijnse oproep voor Boycot, Desinvestering en Sancties (BDS). Israëlische culturele instellingen vormen een essentieel onderdeel van de ideologische en institutionele infrastructuur van Israël als bezettingsmacht. Met deze campagne willen wij ons verzet uitdrukken tegen de politiek van bezetting, kolonisatie en apartheid die de Israëlische staat voert. Met onze oproep tot steun voor de BDS nemen we onze verantwoordelijkheid op om op geweldloze manier het einde te bespoedigen van een beleid waarin de voortdurende schendingen van het internationaal recht en de mensenrechten straffeloos blijven. We verzetten ons tegen elke vorm van haat, racisme en xenofobie; antisemitisme inbegrepen. Onze oproep en acties zijn in volledige overeenstemming met de fundamentele mensenrechten zoals geformuleerd in de Universele Verklaring voor de Rechten van de Mens.
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Announcements:

« someone will always be missing» Joke Laureyns & Kwint Manshoven ─ laGeste (les ballets C de la B + kabinet k) : Deze gedurfde dansvoorstelling bestaat uit 6 Palestijnse duetten, van telkens een kind en een volwassene, uit verschillende contexten waar Palestijnen leven: op de Westbank, in Gaza, Oost-Jeruzalem, Israël, in de kampen in Libanon of in Gent. Er zal altijd iemand afwezig zijn en net die afwezigheid wil de voorstelling zichtbaar maken. De première is op 2 november 2023 in de Vooruit. De tournee loopt verder tot in het voorjaar van ’24. Dossier (pdf): klik hier!
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Arts & Culture:
« Theater as politics: an interview with Einat Weizman » Jonathan Ofir (Mondoweiss, April 24, 2023): Jonathan Ofir interviews Israeli playwright Einat Weizman about her play "Prisoners of the Occupation" and how theater can become a vehicle for political mobilization and change.
« L’expérience infructueuse d’une littérature palestinienne en hébreu » Sophie Bessis (OrientXXI, 1er avril 2023) : Peut-on s’emparer de l’hébreu pour dépasser le sionisme, et peut-on être israélien sans être juif ? Bilan de ces écrivains palestiniens qui s’y sont essayé. Il n’est pas courant que d’une thèse de littérature sorte un ouvrage éminemment politique. C’est pourtant le cas avec le livre récemment publié par Sadia Agsous, "Derrière l’hébreu, l’arabe." Traitant de cette étrangeté qu’est la littérature palestinienne en langue hébraïque dans un environnement ne se prêtant pas vraiment à cette traversée des langues, elle montre quels sont les effets, le sens et les retombées de l’investissement de l’idiome du dominateur par le dominé.
« Liberté, justice, Palestine : cinq poètes arabes révolutionnaires » Nadda Osman (Middle East Eye, 21 mars, 2023) : Dans le monde arabe, la poésie est considérée comme l'une des plus éminentes formes d'art et le patrimoine poétique remonte à l’ère pré-islamique et aux odes épiques d'Imru al-Qais et Antarah ibn Shaddad. La poésie continue d'occuper une place centrale dans les sociétés arabes et pour de nombreux enfants qui grandissent dans la région, l’étude de l’arabe est associée à celle de la poésie classique.
« One Palestinian film and the colonizer’s endless anxiety » Shaul Magid (+972, February 2, 2023): ‘Farha’ holds up a mirror to Israelis and their victimless narrative about the 1948 war — and they don't like what they see. Who gets to tell the story of their oppression? The question arguably goes back to imperial times when kings ruled their subjects with impunity and sold the victims of their conquests into slavery. The answer, in those days, was fairly simple: the oppressed did not get to narrate their own story. History was written by the victors; the losers often disappeared and were forgotten, only occasionally to be discovered much later by historians, if at all.
«Above occupation, beyond survival » Nada Elia (Mondoweiss, December 26, 2022): "LIGHT IN GAZA. Writings Born of Fire," edited by Jehad Abusalim, Jennifer Bing, and Michael Merryman-Lotze, 280 pp. Haymarket Books $24.95. "Light in Gaza: Writings out of Fire" is a hopeful gift from Gaza, reminding us that all of Israel’s power has not, and will not, defeat the Palestinian will to rise...As anyone attuned to Palestinian resistance can vouch, Gaza is so much more than the genocidal measures and recurrent military assaults Israel imposes on it, as it has produced, and continues to produce, internationally exhibited art, creative engineering innovations, and award-winning poetry.
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Denunciations:
« Israeli Army Arrests Member of Jenin's Freedom Theater General Assembly » Sheren Falah Saab (Haaretz, January 30, 2023): Yahya Zubeidi, who was arrested on suspicion of 'involvement in terrorist activity,' took on a managing role in the Freedom Theater in the Jenin refugee camp following the arrest of his brother, former commander of the al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades and co-founder of the theater Zakariya Zubeidi.
« Palestinians Are Not Liars: Confronting the Violence of Media Delegitimization » Ramzy Baroud & Romana Rubeo (ZNET, January 26, 2023): On January 19, during one of its raids in the Occupied West Bank, the Israeli military arrested a Palestinian journalist, Abdul Muhsen Shalaldeh, near the town of Al-Khalil (Hebron). This is just the latest of a staggering number of violations against Palestinian journalists, and against freedom of expression.
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Current Affairs>
- * Tamara NASSER: "Israel kills municipal worker, resistance fighters in Balata refugee camp" (EI, 22 May 2023).
- "Israeli Soldiers Kill A Palestinian Child, Injure Two Young Men, In Refugee Camp In Jericho" (IMEMC, April 10, 2023).
- Maureen Clare MURPHY: "Israeli death squad kills four in Jenin" (EI, 16 March, 2023).
- "Teen among four Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in West Bank raids" (Middle East Eye, 9 March, 2023).
- "2023 Huwara rampage" (Wikipedia, 3 March, 2023).
- Maureen Clare MURPHY: "Israel kills 11 in daytime raid on Nablus" (The Electronic Intifada, 22 Feb 2023).
Tamara NASSAR: "Israel kills another child in the West Bank" (The Electronic Intifada, 9 Feb 2023). "Un assassinat par jour : c’est ça le colonialisme israélien que nous devons combattre !" (CAPJPO-Europalestine, 17 janvier, 2023). Tamara NASSAR: "Israel kills three children as 2023 dawns" (The Electronic Intifada, 5 January, 2023). Mariam BARGHOUTI: "Invading Israeli forces assassinate 5 more Palestinians in two days, including 16-yr-old" (Israel-Palestine News, Dec 8, 2022). "Israel soldier executes Palestinian youth in cold blood " (MEMo, Dec 2, 2022). Gideon LEVY & Alex LEVAC: "A Palestinian Boy Went Out With Friends. An Israeli Soldier Shot Him in the Head" (Haaretz, Oct 15, 2022). Yumna PATEL & Mariam BARGHOUTI: "Israeli forces kill four Palestinians in occupied West Bank, including two brothers" (Mondoweiss, Nov 29, 2022). Motasem A DALLOUL: "Who's going to stop the madness of extremist ministers of next Israeli government? " (Haaretz, Nov 11, 2022). Jack KHOURY & Hagar SHEZAF: "14-year-old Among Two Palestinian Teens Killed Within Hours of Each Other by IDF Fire in West Bank" (Haaretz, Nov 11, 2022). Gideon LEVY & Alex LEVAC: "This Palestinian Teen Was Shot Twice, Cuffed and Detained by Israeli Troops – Then Released" (Haaretz, Sept 2, 2022). "Invading Israeli soldiers kill Palestinian photographing them, Injure 17 in Jenin" (Israel-Palestine News, Sept 6, 2022). Defense for Children International-Palestine: "Israeli settler, soldier shoot and kill Palestinian boy" (DCIP, August 1, 2022). Tamara NASSAR: "Israeli forces kill fleeing Palestinian child" (EI, 6 July, 2022). Maureen Clare MURPHY: "Israel executes three Palestinians in Jenin" (The Electronic Intifada, June 18, 2022). "Thirteen Palestinian children killed in the West Bank since January 2022" (UNICEF, May 29, 2022). "Israeli forces use Palestinian girl as a human shield in Jenin" (Defense for Children International-Palestine, May 19, 2022). Shatha HAMMAD: "Israeli forces fatally shoot two young Palestinians in occupied West Bank" (Middle East Eye, April 13, 2022). "Israel kills Palestinian boy in Jenin raid" (MEMo, March 31, 2022).Staat van Beleg: " Israëlische Schendingen februari 2022 " (7 maart 2022). Jesse Rosenfeld, Oren Ziv & Ahmad Al-Bazz : "Triple West Bank assassination recalls darkest days of the Intifada" (+972, Feb 15, 2022).Jack Khoury & Yaniv Kubovich: "Man Killed by Israeli Fire Near Ramallah, Palestinian Health Ministry Says" (Haaretz, Feb 15, 2022). "Israel’ Issues 1595 Administrative Detention Orders Against Palestinians In 2021" PalestineOnline, Jan 2, 2022)."Israel a tué 357 Palestiniens, dont 79 enfants et 69 femmes en 2021 " EuroPalestine, 2 janvier 2022).Gideon LEVY: "A Brief History of Killing Children " Haaretz, Nov 20, 2021). Allison WEIR: "Israeli forces have killed 39 Palestinian men, women, & children since May" (Israel-Palestine News, Oct 19, 2021). "Israel settlers open fire on Palestine homes in West Bank" (Middle East Monitor, September 11, 2021). Gideon LEVY: "Yes, the Palestinian Prison Escapees Are Freedom Fighters” (Haaretz, Sept 9, 2021; archive.today). "Developing news: Six Palestinian political prisoners liberate themselves from colonial Israeli prison” (Samidoun, Sept 5, 2021). "Israeli troops kill Palestinian teen in West Bank clash” (Middle East Eye, July 24, 2021). Tamara NASSAR: "Israeli gunfire takes lives of two more Palestinian teens” (+972, July 15, 2021). Yuval ABRAHAM: "Joint militias: How settlers and soldiers teamed up to kill four Palestinians” (+972, July 15, 2021)."Palestinian boy loses eye after Israel soldiers shoot him” (Middle East Monitor, April 12, 2021).Gideon LEVY & Alex LEVAC: "Palestinians Protested the Theft of Their Land. An Israeli Army Officer Shot One of Them in the Head” (Haaretz, March 26, 2021). "Israel to displace 1,550 Palestinians to build park in Jerusalem” (MEMo, March 18, 2021)."Reconstitution de l’exécution d’un Palestinien qui ne constituait aucune menace” (EuroPalestine, 27 février, 2021).Mairav ZONSZEIN: "Vaccination Under Occupation” (Jewish Currents, 12 Jan, 2021).Orly NOY: "Why B’Tselem is calling Israel an apartheid regime, from the river to the sea” (Mondoweiss, 12 Jan, 2021).
Voor het archief: click here!
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