{"id":1959,"date":"2021-05-24T13:28:09","date_gmt":"2021-05-24T05:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghi2020.web.nctu.edu.tw\/?p=1959"},"modified":"2022-07-16T01:37:36","modified_gmt":"2022-07-16T01:37:36","slug":"1959-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/transit-asia.chss.nycu.edu.tw\/GHI\/1959-2\/","title":{"rendered":"SIGN THE PLEDGE"},"content":{"rendered":"
JOIN THE CULTURAL BOYCOTT FOR PALESTINE<\/span><\/h5>\n
SIGN THE PLEDGE<\/span><\/h5>\n
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To sign your pledge, go to<\/strong> http:\/\/culturalboycott.org\/?fbclid=IwAR0FHyOHHbzGmm8XFWW8mXNGX17mtf98QE-B37J2ZkOtFBpn-CyHm4z5yCE<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

May 19, 2021<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Cultural work is never neutral. As artists and cultural workers, we recognize art\u2019s power to uplift, mobilize, and transform the horizon of what is possible. As we write, Israel is bombarding Palestinians trapped in Gaza from the land, air and sea. Israel is targeting civilians, hospitals, apartment buildings, schools, libraries, critical infrastructure,\u00a0 and media facilities. This newest, devastating iteration of collective punishment follows more than a decade of brutal siege, periodic bombing campaigns and a public health crisis compounded by Gaza\u2019s decimated infrastructure, undrinkable water and the Covid crisis that preceded this round of attacks.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Amid the renewed vicious Israeli bombardment of Gaza and militarized expulsions of Palestinians from their generational homes in Jerusalem, and assaults on worshipers inside Al-Aqsa Mosque, we are witnessing growing numbers of increasingly violent settler mobs organizing to intimidate and attack Palestinians across all of Palestine, all in coordination with the Israeli military. This ongoing ethnic cleansing has been continuous since the beginning of this settler colonial project, before 1948. The horrifying scenes emerging from cities like Haifa, Lydd and Yaffa of settler mobs chanting \u201cDeath to Arabs\u201d on the streets and breaking into Palestinian homes, the publicly-televised lynchings of Palestinians, and the marking of Palestinian homes in mixed cities for attack all evoke our historical memory of all racialized and colonial violence.<\/span><\/p>\n

We refuse to lend our creativity, names and labor to normalize the ongoing violence of apartheid, ethnic cleansing, and theft of Palestinian land that continues to unfold under Israeli settler colonialism. The Israeli state explicitly uses the cultural sector to whitewash its war crimes and to divert attention from its systematic denial of Palestinian rights. It\u2019s well-established that the Israeli government invests heavily in mobilizing art and culture to create a false impression of a democratic state in order to sustain its apartheid state. As Palestinians rise up across all regions of Palestine, and throughout the world, rewriting and correcting a narrative that paints the colonized as responsible for their own suffering, we extend our full support to the Palestinian uprising for freedom, justice, equality and sovereignty..<\/span><\/p>\n

We embrace the call for\u00a0Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS)<\/a>\u00a0as a tool to dismantle Israel\u2019s regime of military occupation, settler-colonialism and apartheid. We affirm that Palestinian liberation is achievable, urgent, and necessary. Our movement is strengthened by explicit bonds of solidarity internationally, and our liberation is linked to the liberation of all oppressed people of the world. We affirm that decolonization is only possible through a feminist and anti-racist praxis that dismantles heteropatriarchy and white supremacy in its path to emancipation.<\/span><\/p>\n

We commit to :\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

No work with Israeli state or affiliated institutions:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n