Tagged: PACBI

IAW-organizer Eman Sourani: ‘We expect one thing: action’

IAW-organizer Eman Sourani: ‘We expect one thing: action’

On March 12, students in Gaza are slated to mark the international Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) with activities that aim to empower the BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) campaign against Israel. In their own week of action, organized by PSCABI1 together with ODSG2 , PACBI3 and the BDS group in Gaza, the Gaza contributions feature a promising program of speakers,...

Normalization extravaganza: Palestinian artists at the ‘Israeli’ Oud festival

Normalization extravaganza: Palestinian artists at the ‘Israeli’ Oud festival

There are various degrees of what we call ‘normalization’. As indicated in a recent article at the Musical Intifada, in some exceptional cases it can even be described as ‘understandable’, or to a certain degree ‘acceptable’ if not entirely ‘inevitable’. However, at the opposite end of that spectrum there are displays of normalization that are completely uncalled for, and nauseatingly...