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BDS roundup: The victories of 2012

In this latest roundup of news from the global boycott, divestment and sanctions movement, we take a look back at a year full of victories.

Austria's Salam.Orient festival reacts to Arab artists' pull out over Israel sponsorship

Palestinian oud player Marwan Abado, and Tunis Air pull out, bringing to 5 number of artists who have boycotted festival.

Three more Arab performers pull out of Austrian music festival due to Israel embassy sponsorship

Syrian singer Lena Chamamyan, Lebanese MC Malikah (Lynn Fattouh), and Ramallah-based MC DJ Sotusura will now no longer perform at Salam.Orient due to Israeli sponsorship.

Citing Israeli sponsorship, Palestinian MC Boikutt pulls out of Austria's Salam.Orient festival

Boikutt: “These kind of events… are used as a propaganda tool to hide the colonial nature of ‘Israel.’”

Boycott activists to US hip-hop artist MF Doom: "Don't entertain a doomed apartheid regime!"

Boycott campaigners call on MF Doom and French singer Mireille Mathieu to cancel their upcoming performances in Tel Aviv, and activists in Ireland demand that a film forum refuse to host the Israeli embassy for a de-politicized “celebration of Israeli cinema.”

Music as resistance inside the Ramallah bubble

Ray Smith
Ramallah
16 May 2011
In the occupied West Bank, dissident voices questioning the Palestinian Authority’s increasingly authoritarian rule have become rare. But a young musician in Ramallah refuses to hold his tongue.
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