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as “control everyday
Palestinian life, at the barrel of a gun,” and as having spent “over 60 years...murdering, maiming, arresting civilians, all the while stealing their lands by extreme and brutal force,” the letter said that if Paradis performed in Israel “it will have the effect of contributing
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in 2011. “We're raised to be soldiers from kindergarten. We're taught that it's our duty and you're a parasite or traitor if you don't want to serve.” He said that
Israelis “are raised to be deeply racist,” and described his support for BDS as a means of “renouncing my privileges in this land and
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against apartheid,” and who are “devoted to the promotion of just peace and true democracy in this region.” They disapprove of “Western governments' decision to boycott the
Palestinians in the Occupied Palestinian Territories,” which they characterize as “particularly outrageous given the same
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Barkan has described himself as “among the group of the over-privileged in this struggle for
Palestinian rights, acting against a system that has at its very core the Zionist principle of differentiation.” He describes the Israeli treatment of Palestinians as apartheid, identifies himself as
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who has demonstrated alongside
Palestinian villagers protesting the West Bank fence for many years. In addition, he has close connections to the Palestine Solidarity Project. Imprisoned in 2004 for interfering with security policies, he was summoned by
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Israeli. “Are you ready to perform in Tel Aviv,” the organization asked in an open letter to the band, “when right in front of you millions of people are suffocating under a cruel Israeli military regime that denies them basic human
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insisting on equality for all.” He does not, however, support the turning away of
Israeli academics or musicians from conferences or other gatherings abroad because they are Israelis, saying that such conduct amounts to racism.
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to cancel a planned 2011 performance in Israel. In a letter to
Paradis, the group urged her “to take this opportunity to take a stand on an issue crucial to human rights and as such, to human lives as well.” Describing the
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Boycott from Within member Leehee
Rothschild’s Tel Aviv apartment was raided and she was detained in 2011. “Obviously is nothing compared to what Palestinians are going through,” Rothschild told
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that it possessed “information indicating that Dr. Kobi Snitz is involved in organizing illegal gatherings and illegal entry into restricted military zones in the West Bank.”
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to Israel’s image of normality” and of “allow the state of Israel to use your reputation to whitewash its crimes!”
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and has been arrested and detained a number of times. In a 2012 interview with journalist Ceclia Dalla Negra of
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Western governments' prolonged support of Israel's apartheid and other daily violations of international law.”
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The Israel Security Agency investigators interrogated Barkan in the run-up to the 2012 “flytilla.”
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call for a BDS campaign against Israel, inspired by the struggle of
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