BDS Mixtape Vol. 3 now available for pre-order!
The July 9 release of Unboundable, the third volume of Amplify Palestine’s BDS Mixtape series, marks the twentieth anniversary of the Palestinian call for boycott, divestment, and sanctions.
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LISTEN to Huda Asfour, db, and Sonny Singh’s “First Intersection” and pre-order BDS Mixtape Vol. 3 through Bandcamp.
Proceeds support cultural initiatives in Palestine.
Amplifying the Palestinian call to boycott Israel until Palestine is free.
Artists endorse the cultural boycott of Israel. Featuring Kathleen Chalfant, Tamar-kali, Kyp Malone, Tunde Adebimpe, Molly Crabapple, and Swoon. Music by Jabar.
Building Cultural Power for Palestinian Liberation
Music for liberation made with love from Turtle Island to Palestine
Amplify Palestine BDS Mixtape
A celebration of our movement’s creativity and critical mass, the BDS Mixtape series presents cross-genre compilations from musicians who proudly support Palestinian liberation and urgently invite other artists of conscience to sign onto BDS.
Protesting the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, NYC
Boycott Brand Israel
We call on cultural institutions to refuse Israeli government sponsorship, artists to refrain from playing in Israel, and art-lovers to boycott events that whitewash Israeli apartheid.
Rafeef Ziadah, We Teach Life tour
Nuyorican Poets Cafe, NYC
Art under Apartheid
Palestinian artists and cultural workers face many forms of suppression by the Israeli state, but continue to create art and organizational homes for Palestinian cultural life.
Simon Shaheen at the Palestine Calling launch party
Verso Books loft, NYC
Palestine Calling
Artists and cultural workers around the world are heeding the call from Palestine to boycott Israel until it ends its occupation, recognizes the right of its Palestinian citizens to full equality, and respects Palestinian refugees’ right to return.
About Cultural Boycott
Musicians Stand for Justice image from Visualizing Palestine (2019), featuring the names of a selection of musicians who have endorsed the boycott call or taken action that upholds the boycott.
For decades Palestinians have lived under and struggled against a system of Israeli occupation, colonization, and apartheid. Today, the vast majority of Palestinian civil society calls upon us to join the global boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement to pressure Israel to respect international law and Palestinian rights.
One of the most important elements of the BDS movement is the cultural boycott campaign, launched by the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI). With this campaign, PACBI asks all of us to recognize Israeli cultural institutions’ complicity with Israeli apartheid, to refrain from participating in cultural events in Israel, and to boycott events throughout the world that are sponsored by the Israeli government, Israel lobby groups, and complicit Israeli institutions.
This campaign is not targeted at individuals but at institutions that help maintain the multitiered system of oppression of the Palestinian people. PACBI has developed a full set of guidelines for evaluating whether an event is boycottable.