Over 700 British artists boycott Israel

Over 700 British artists representing every field of the arts have taken an Artists’ Pledge for Palestine to boycott Israel culturally or professionally until “it complies with international law and universal principles of human rights,” Qods News Agency reports.

The pledge, organized and published by Artists for Palestine UK (APUK), was announcement today on the Letters page at the Guardian in a statement asserting, “The Palestinian catastrophe goes on.”

"Since the summer war on Gaza, Palestinians have enjoyed no respite from Israel’s unrelenting attack on their land, their livelihood, their right to political existence," the artists said in the pledge.

"We support the Palestinian struggle for freedom, justice and equality," they said, adding the pledge has come in response to the call from Palestinian artists and cultural workers for a cultural boycott of Israel.

Among those who have signed the Artists’ Pledge for Palestine are creative people from diverse artistic and cultural backgrounds.