"Overall, we are pretty much like Russia now, only it isn't official yet with us. That may actually be worse, because if it were official, at least we'd be able to fight it," says Adar Shafran ("Running on Sand"), the director and head of the Israeli Producers Association. "When they want to submit a film to a festival, the Russians are told in advance not to do so. We aren't told that – our films simply aren't accepted."
Haaretz
"I've just returned from the London Book Fair, which is one of the most important annual events in our industry," says Ziv Lewis, the acquisitions editor at Kinneret Zmora-Bitan Dvir publishing house. "I arrive at every fair with a book or two of ours, and try to sell the translation rights internationally. This time I didn't even try. Based on what I gathered and heard, there has never been a worse time for Israeli art. There's no open door and no desire to listen."
"we are being treated – institutions, artists, curators, private individuals – the same way that Russia is viewed, only in our case it is perhaps worse. If before the war I could hang on to the idea that I didn't represent the government, & I identified myself as left-wing and pro-Palestinian, today the categories have changed. I can't say anything like that at all, and I won't have the opportunity to say it. In many places we are simply persona non grata, almost Satan."
Whilst the US is providing $Ms, #Israel will make no effort to behave like a civilised country. But the UK is just as shamed and inveigled by knowingly selling/providing arms to Israel. The governments of many Western powers are standing behind Israel. It is up to consumers/tourists to #boycott the country & its products.
TIL "#boycott - to refuse to do business with, as a sign of disapproval. The #eponym inspiration was Captain Charles Boycott (1832-97), an Irish land agent so treated in 1880, in an attempt by the Irish Land League to get a break on #rent." https://www.visualthesaurus.com/?word=boycott
At university of South #Florida hunger strikers for #palestine are entering their third week.
The university has instructed medical staff on campus to deny medical care to these students, they don’t all have insurance. Some have been hospitalized.
Through all this, the university continues to say they have zero control over their own money, and won’t meet with strikers.
#BestBuy is caving to threats by #christofascist#Republican investors, and will stop contributing to #LGBTQ non-profit organizations — including blocking their employee resource groups from making donations to those groups.
I just came across this TikTok "#boycott#Kelloggs for their #LetThemEatCereal for dinner" remark", and I love how clear the goal and mechanism to achieve it are: if enough people do this one fairly little thing for a full quarter, the powerful will notice, and can be forced to change their behavior.