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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 565

cultural boycott

A protest on a university campus in the UK in February 2024. (CST Campus Report)
February 25, 2025, 12:50 pm
Facing 66% rise in academic boycotts, Israeli universities gear up to fight back
Boycotts of Israeli institutions and researchers won’t stop anytime soon and Israel needs to adapt to the situation, report finds
By Zev Stub
Illustrative: A competitor rolls a bowl at the 2022 World Indoor Bowls Championship, which took place between January 7 and 23, 2022, in Hopton-on-Sea, Great Yarmouth, England. (Screen capture: Youtube/Guardian Sport, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
December 31, 2024, 7:23 pm
International bowls federation drops ban on Israelis at UK competition after outrage
World Bowls Tour says it added ‘significant’ security to upcoming indoor championship, acknowledges ‘difficult time for all involved’ as it reverses initial banning of 3 bowlers
By Reuters and ToI Staff
The University of Leipzig (iStock)
December 5, 2024, 3:05 pm
German cancelation of Israeli professor’s talk highlights widening academic boycotts
Even as University of Leipzig presents decision to nix lecture by historian Benny Morris as security-related, some view it as capitulation to BDS in a relatively friendly country
By Zev Stub
Lisa Barr, author of 'The Goddess of Warsaw.' (Courtesy)
November 30, 2024, 4:24 am
Blacklisted for Israel support, author draws strength from Holocaust survivor grandma
Bestselling writer Lisa Barr – targeted by hecklers and review bombers – vows that though she wants to ‘curl up in a ball’ after Oct. 7, she will ‘fight back constructively’
By Jordana Horn
The 'Masterpieces' exhibition at the Mishkan Museum at Kibbutz Ein Harod, autumn 2024. (Photo by Daniel Hanoch)
November 17, 2024, 6:02 am
In new exhibit, Israeli museum responds to wartime isolation with ‘respins’ of great works
Running through February, ‘Masterpieces’ at the Mishkan Museum in Kibbutz Ein Harod contains 300 works by 47 artists, including rethinks of ‘The Last Supper’ and ‘Guernica’
By Karen Chernick
Illustrative: Israelis attend the annual Hebrew Book Week in Tel Aviv on June 18, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
October 31, 2024, 4:16 am
Countering boycott, over 1,000 reject attempt ‘to scapegoat Jewish and Israeli authors’
Literary and entertainment figures sign letter supporting those who ‘don’t share one-sided narrative’ about Oct. 7, slam ‘censorship based on identity or litmus tests’
By ToI Staff
Sally Rooney speaks onstage during the Hulu Panel at Winter TCA 2020 at The Langham Huntington, Pasadena on January 17, 2020 in Pasadena, California. (Photo by Erik Voake/Getty Images for Hulu via JTA)
October 29, 2024, 9:29 am
Sally Rooney among 1,000 authors urging boycott of Israeli cultural institutions
Letter vows signatories won’t work with entities complicit in ‘overwhelming oppression’ of Palestinians; Howard Jacobson pans ‘staggering’ attempt to silence writers
By ToI Staff
The website of Guernica, a literary magazine, shows the retracted essay by Israeli writer and translator Joanna Chen. (Screenshot via JTA/ used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law))
April 8, 2024, 6:29 pm
Chief editor of US literary magazine quits after Israeli writer’s war essay dropped
Guernica pulled essay describing complicated feelings post-October 7 following mass resignation of writers, co-publisher’s criticism of ‘hand-wringing apologia for Zionism’
By Andrew Lapin
Joanna Chen (Heidi Levine)
March 12, 2024, 2:02 am
US literary magazine retracts Israeli writer’s coexistence essay amid mass resignations
Guernica staffers quit, calling piece by Joanna Chen that is highly critical of Israel ‘a hand-wringing apologia for Zionism’; critics lament anti-Israel extremism in literary world
By JTA and ToI Staff
Visitors watch the "Field Hospital" installation by artist Aya Ben Ron on display at Israel's pavilion during the 58th Biennale of Arts exhibition in Venice, Italy, Tuesday, May 7, 2019. Political issues that excite newsprint, airwaves and social media, such as fake news, migration, poverty, global warming and armed conflict, are getting a very open airing at the 58th Venice Biennale contemporary art fair, which Saturday, May 11, and runs through Nov. 24, 2019.(AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)
February 29, 2024, 6:36 am
Italy’s culture minister backs Israel after calls to exclude it from Venice Biennale
Gennaro Sangiuliano pushes back against open letter protesting Jewish state’s participation in art fair, saying it ‘has the duty to bear witness to its people’ after October 7
By Agencies and ToI Staff
A view shows 'Tunnel Boring Machine, 2022' by artist Teresa Solar, during a press day at the 59th Venice Art Biennale in Venice on April 19, 2022. (Vincenzo Pinto/AFP)
February 27, 2024, 7:19 pm
Thousands of artists ask Venice Biennale to exclude ‘genocidal’ Israel over Gaza war
Anti-Israel alliance calls any official representation of Israel on international cultural stage ‘an endorsement of its policies and of Gaza genocide’; no response from organizers
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Lana Bastašić meets readers at a literary event in Berlin, Germany, on September 14, 2023. (Elena Ternovaja/Wikimedia Commons)
February 1, 2024, 3:26 pm
Austrian literary festival drops Bosnian author who protested criticism of Oct. 7
Separately, a children’s book fair in Italy indicates it will ignore a petition to boycott Israel signed by top artists
By Canaan Lidor
A member of the Spanish hip-hop band Tribade defaces an Israeli flag at the Sziget Music Festival in Hungary, August 14, 2022. (Instagram)
August 15, 2022, 4:14 pm
Spanish band defaces Israeli flag at music festival, uploads video to Instagram
Barcelona-based rap group that prides itself on social activism writes ‘Israel doesn’t exist,’ draws penis on Israeli flag at campsite after performing at Hungary’s Sziget Festival
By Tobias Siegal
Mexican artist Erick Beltran, 2nd from right, explains his artwork during the press preview of the documenta fifteen, the world's most significant exhibition of contemporary art, in Kassel, Germany, June 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)
June 19, 2022, 8:57 am
German president calls on major art show to address antisemitism allegations
At opening of documenta fifteen, Steinmeier says ‘recognizing Israel is the basis and condition for debate here,’ says ‘there are limits’ to what artists can do on political issues
By AP
Illustrative: fireworks fill the sky over the Opera House in Sydney on New Year's Eve on December 31, 2021. (David Gray / AFP)
January 7, 2022, 9:22 am
120 artists, industry officials slam boycott of Sydney festival over Israeli funding
Quoting Aussie rocker Nick Cave, open letter states that ‘cultural boycott of Israel is cowardly and shameful’; 30 acts withdraw over Israel sponsoring one of the shows
By ToI Staff
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