Dear Skin, Ace, Cass, Mark,
We are citizens of Israel who oppose Israel?s continuing displacement and?dispossession of the Palestinian people via military occupation and?apartheid policies. We join the Palestinian civil society call for boycott,?divest and sanctions on Israel (BDS) [1].
You may be asking yourselves what that has to do with you. You being the?band who once sang "everything is fucking political", we'd like to point?out that a concert in Israel is patently political, not least because?Israel openly and expressly uses music concerts (among other cultural?aspects) to create a semblance of normalcy and a glamorous image in order?to divert attention from its discriminatory practices, human rights?violations and war crimes against the Palestinian people [2].
Your August dates, booked by Zappa for Amphi Shuni, in Jabotinsky Park, also?have political implications, to which we would like to draw your attention:
The amphitheater you are booked to play is a Jewish National Fund (JNF)?project [3]. The JNF has a long history of ethnic cleansing of the?indigenous Palestinian population, and colonization of their lands. This??history? continues today [4]. Just recently, Israel's parliament passed a?law to displace 30,000-40,000 Palestinian Bedouins (also known as "The?Prawer Plan") with strong JNF complicity [5].
?On the JNF website, describing the theatre [2], JNF boasts that "*the?fortress [now the amphitheater] became the chief military training?camp [for the] Irgun [one of the right-wing Zionist militias later?integrated into Israel's army]*". The website praises this militia, but?conveniently fails to mention the role the militants played in the?systematic massacres and destruction of 500 Palestinian villages between?1947-1948 [6], among them the village of Khirbat al-Shuna, where Jabotinsky?Park lies today [7],
The Zappa website also boasts of the militia's museum as one of the venue's?advantages [8, in Hebrew] without mentioning the horrific history of the?place and its relation to today's reality, in which the survivors of the?brutal depopulation are not allowed to return to their homes, even though?they are located only 32.5 km away from their current village [9].
It is also important to note that this is not the Zappa's only?collaboration with governmental offices and institutions. Zappa hosted last?year's "Jerusalem Music Conference" [10], sponsored by Israel's Foreign?Ministry, Israel Export Office, and the Jerusalem Municipality. The latter?is responsible for the ongoing colonization of occupied East Jerusalem,?which is happening on a daily basis [11]. The conference highlight was a?panel titled (no politicized irony) "Music as a Weapon for Peace", which?addressed "coexistence" and "building bridges", but not apartheid and?building walls.
Dear members of Skunk Anansie, please reconsider your two scheduled gigs in?Israel, as they have political implications for the indigenous people of?Palestine, struggling for the recognition of the colonization of their land?and the severe violations of their human rights. Performing in Israel today?is akin to performing in apartheid South Africa. Palestinian civil society?was inspired by South African anti apartheid activists, and has chosen a?similar strategy of non-violent struggle, appealing to the world to boycott?the Israeli apartheid regime. Please do not cross their picket line. Please?Boycott apartheid Israel, until the terrible reality of apartheid comes to?an end.
Sincerely,
Boycott! Supporting the Palestinian BDS Call from Within
(aka Boycott from Within, Israeli citizens for BDS)
[1]?http://www.pacbi.org/etemplate.php?id=1047
[2]
http://pulsemedia.org/2012/12/12/israel-2012-the-question-of-a-nation-wh...
[3]?http://support.jnf.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=10137
[4]?http://www.stopthejnf.org/resources/?(JNF E-book Vol1, January 2010)
[5]
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rabbi-alissa-wise/prawer-plan_b_3438201.html
[6]?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ethnic_Cleansing_of_Palestine
[7]?http://www.palestineremembered.com/Haifa/al-Shuna,-Khirbat/
[8] http://www.zappa-club.co.il/????-????-?????
[9]?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khirbat_al-Shuna
[10]
http://www.jpost.com/Arts-and-Culture/Entertainment/So-you-wanna-be-a-ro...
[11]?http://eng.ir-amim.org.il/?CategoryID=151
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Posted on 18-07-2013
Source: http://www.pacbi.org/etemplate.php?id=2223
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