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NYC – If you missed El-Funoun's fall workshops or just want more, Samer Karaja is coming back to lead advanced workshops on street dabke Nov 4 & 7!
Street Dabke & La Mama Theatre – spontaneous and improvised, influenced by hip hop and freestyle movement. With Samer Karaja from El Funoun Palestinian Dance Troupe. For advanced dancers. Tuesday 4 Nov 1–3 pm, Friday 7 Nov 4–6 pm. La Mama Community Art space, 74 East 4th st [NYC]. Three overlapping photos – Samer jumping high in the air, Samer demonstrates a step dabke stick in hand, a line of dancers holding hands and arms raised with the middle dancer jumping as though lifted by the line of dancers.
November 1, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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Let's amplify Palestine at the GRAMMYs!

Today's the last day to vote in first-round Grammy Awards nominations.

If you're an academy member, vote for Unboundable: BDS Mixtape Vol 3 in the Best Alternative Jazz category – and spread the word!
For your GRAMMY (r) consideration – Best Alternative Jazz album. Cover art for Amplify Palestine's Unboundable: BDS Mixtape Vol. 3, with three wide-awake eyes against a background of green on the left and ont he right, shades of purple and abstract lines, and circles. Overlaid with a gramaphone. image.
October 15, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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The Gaza Biennale comes to NYC, Sept 10–14.

"Recess is honored to be the first North American site hosting the Gaza Biennale, a global exhibition shaped by Palestinian artists who have been creating throughout the genocidal war in Gaza."

www.recessart.org/events/394-g...
Gaza Biennale (in English and Arabic) 2025 Above the Arabic calligraphy, an image of a phoenix-like bird, wings spread wide taking flight
August 30, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Artists are with Palestine. As BDS Mixtape curator & contributor @sonnysingh.bsky.social says:

"It is our responsibility as musicians to get louder. We refuse to live in fear, we refuse to be silent, we refuse to be complicit in genocide."

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"It is our responsibility as musicians to get louder. We refuse to live in fear, we refuse to be silent, we refuse to be complicit in genocide." Quotation from trumpet-player Sonny Singh. Image of Singh holding his trumpet, head slightly bowed and eyes closed, against a purple and green background with two hand-drawn wide-awake eyes.
August 1, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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Scene Noise covers our new BDS Mixtape 💜

"Each track is a gesture of solidarity, from violin duos inspired by Mahmoud Darwish, to Gaza-dedicated pieces like Sami Abu Shumays’ 'O Child', written during Israel’s bombardment of Rafah."

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Amplify Palestine Drops 'Unboundable: BDS Mixtape Vol. 3" Marking two decades of the BDS Movement, Amplify Palestine's "Unboundable: BDS Mixtape Vol. 3" gathers 13 artists exploring solidarity through jazz, Arabic music, Indian classical, and electronics. Photo of contributor Muyassar Kurdi in all black, gazing directly into the camera as she leans over an open grand piano.
July 14, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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All BDS Mixtape proceeds support cultural initiatives in Palestine.

Stream | Buy | Learn More:
bio.site/AMPLIFYPALES...
Purple, green, and pink graphic with wide-awake eyeball in lower-right corner and text from post: ALL BDS MIXTAPE PROCEEDS SUPPORT CULTURAL INITIATIVES IN PALESTINE Big expressionistic wide-awake eye centered on deep olive green against purple with pink accents. Amplify Palestine Unboundable BDS Mixtape Vol. 3 out July 9 marking 20 years of BDS. Stream | Buy | Learn More: BIO.SITE/AMPLIFYPALESTINE
July 9, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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UNBOUNDABLE gathers over 20 celebrated musicians on a double album with 13 improvisational tracks that braid jazz, Indian classical, and Arabic music (SIDE A) with experimental voice, avant electronica, and instruments from nature (SIDE B).
On purple, green, and pink background with wide-awake eye in lower-right corner, text from post: UNBOUNDABLE gathers over 20 celebrated musicians on a double album with 13 improvisational tracks that braid jazz, Indian classical, and Arabic music (SIDE A) with experimental voice, avant electronica, and instruments from nature (SIDE B). Side A 1. Roots in the Sky, Trina Basu & Arun Ramamurthy 2. I Hope We Choose Love, Sholay 3. Currents, Robert Lighthouse & Huda Asfour 4. The Horizon Is on Fire, Qais Essar 5. First Intersection, Huda Asfour, db & Sonny Singh 6. Mawwal "O Child," Sami Abu Shumays Side B 1. untitled, Muyassar Kurdi and Camilo Angeles 2. Lasagna L'Harb, Omar and Khorshid 3. Sadhab, gabby fluke-mogul 4. Broken Apple, The Dwarfs of East Agouza 5. Love Songs for a Free Palestine, Leyya Mona Tawil and John King 6. Volverán, Y No 7. Kite, Alia & Ziad
July 9, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Despite this escalating repression, support for Palestinians’ freedom struggle, especially among artists, has only grown — from Glasgow to Mexico City, from Dublin to Cape Town, from Berlin to Brooklyn to Barcelona and around the world.
Green, purple, and pink graphic with wide-awake eyeball in lower right corner and text from post: Despite this escalating repression, support for Palestinians’ freedom struggle, especially among artists, has only grown — from Glasgow to Mexico City, from Dublin to Cape Town, from Berlin to Brooklyn to Barcelona and around the world.
July 9, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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We release UNBOUNDABLE: BDS MIXTAPE VOL. 3 today as we mark 20 years since the Palestinian call for BDS went global;

as Gaza’s people continue to endure genocidal siege, bombs, famine, and fire;

and as repression of Palestine solidarity rapidly escalates.

www.amplifypalestine.org/bds-mixtape-...
Amplify Palestine Unboundable: BDS Mixtape Vol. 3. On the left panel, a column of three eyes painted with expressionistic and bold lines, wide awake against an olive green background. On the right panel shades of purple, with layered energetic lines criss-crossing at various angles. An electric pink line runs between the panels. Neon-green "out now" in the lower-right corner. Amplify Palestine releases UNBOUNDABLE as we mark 20 years since the Palestinian call for boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) went global; as Gaza’s people continue to endure genocidal siege, bombs, famine, and fire; and as repression of Palestine solidarity rapidly escalates.
July 9, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Tomorrow's release of UNBOUNDABLE will mark the 20th anniversary of the Palestinian call for boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS).

Pre-order today for early access to Huda Asfour, db, and Sonny Singh’s “First Intersection.” bdsmixtape.bandcamp.com/album/unboundable-bds-mixtape-vol-3
Launched in March 2023, Amplify Palestine is the label wing of a larger campaign of the same name. As the title suggests, Unboundable: BDS Mixtape Vol. 3 is the third compilation the outlet has released in support of BDS. Listen to "First Intersection" by Huda Asfour, db and Sonny Singh. Embed of Bandcamp track player.
July 8, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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As support for Palestine and decolonize movements across the globe surges, anti-Palestinian gatekeepers are losing their power. Together we’re making solidarity — and BDS — the new baseline.
Amplify Palestine has released a new VA compilation marking the 20th anniversary of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement. Out on July 9th, Unboundable: BDS Mixtape Vol. 3 explores improvisation as a practice that permeates both work and activism. Across 13 tracks, the compilation spans jazz, Indian classical, Arabic music and avant electronica. "It's our responsibility as musicians to get louder," curator and contributor Sonny Singh said. "We refuse to live in fear, we refuse to be silent, we refuse to be complicit in genocide."
July 8, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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We're honored to have our new BDS Mixtape featured in Resident Advisor’s music news alongside Kneecap and Bob Vylan’s anti-censorship solidarity, benefit shows for Palestine in Dublin and London, and Detroit rallying to support artists who have lost funds from canceled gigs.

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Resident Advisor headline "Unboundable: BDS Mixtape Vol. 3 is out on July 9th" with black-and-white photo of The Dwarfs of East Agouza. Set on a purple, olive green, and pink background.
July 8, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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When cultural workers organize for Palestine, they win.

The Norwegian Actors' Equity Association recommends its members refuse to work with Israeli institutions complicit in Israel's genocidal regime of settler-colonial apartheid and military occupation. Via @pacbi.bsky.social
BDS Victory! Norsk Skuespillerforbund, the Norwegian Actors' Equity Association (NSF), is recommending that its members refuse to work with Israeli institutions that are complicit in Israel's genocidal regime of settler-colonial apartheid and military occupation. [PACBI logo of a pen breaking through the Apartheid Wall]
June 26, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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For the second year in a row, the boycott of @penamerica.bsky.social called for by @wawog.bsky.social has rendered the Jean Stein Prize unawardable, with the $75,000 prize being donated to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund and Palestine Legal instead. ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥
May 10, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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And shortly after @bdsmovement.bsky.social welcomed the news that Bristol said genocide-boosters Jonny Greenwood and Dudu Tassa are not welcome to perform in their city, their London show was cancelled as well. ✊✊✊

Full statement from PACBI: www.instagram.com/p/DJHPR5oCgpg
Palestinians welcome the cancellation of Jonny Greenwood and Dudu Tassa's concert, which was due to take place in Bristol, UK on the 23rd June and would have whitewashed Israel's genocide against 2.3m Palestinians in Gaza and underlying settler-colonial apartheid regime. Jonny Greenwood, guitarist with Radiohead and The Smile, had performed in apartheid Tel Aviv along with Dudu Tassa in May 2024, on a night that genocidal Israeli forces massacred displaced Palestinians in their tents in Rafah, burning them alive, just a short drive away. Dudu Tassa has repeatedly entertained genocidal Israeli forces in between these massacres of Palestinians in Gaza, willingly acting as a cultural ambassador for apartheid Israel.
May 2, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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PHILLY tonight (4/11) – Fragmented Return, a multimedia performance by Huda Asfour and Farah Barqawi retelling their version of Palestinian diaspora through their intertwined experiences across Gaza, Cairo & Brooklyn

www.eventbrite.com/e/fragmented...
Over a pink paper with a hand-drawn map in English and Arabic the words not fully visible is overlaid a collage of old photos and a crumpled paper on which is written Farah Barqawi | Huda Asfour (the names of the performers). The various photos show a mother and child in a photo booth, three young people lounging on a sofa, an apartment building bombed out and the top part caving in, a smiling child hands clasped behind her outside in the sun with a jumble of buildings behind her, a child playing dress up with a traditional headdress and fake mustache.
April 11, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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NYC! Get your tix to THE ENCAMPMENTS – released early to meet, as Watermelon Pictures wrote, the "urgent need to challenge the misinformation surrounding Mahmoud [Khalil], the student movement, and all who feel the moral duty to stand against genocide."

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The Encampments still – the lawn of Columbia campus full of students, some holding Palestinian flags, and tents, as well as NYPD.
March 22, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Today PEN America released its literary awards longlist and already Kaveh Akbar has withdrawn, citing @wawog.bsky.social's boycott.

Writers expect @penamerica.bsky.social to meaningfully address the genocide in Gaza & repair the damage it's done.

www.writersagainstthewarongaza.com/boycott-pen-...
Kaveh Akbar IG story sharing post announcing PEN/Jean Stein Book Award ($75,000) with Akbar's book Martyr among the nominations. Akbar writes, "This out today – with genuine gratitude to the judges for their labor and regard, I've withdrawn my name from consideration – more info here: writersagainstthewarongaza.com"
March 21, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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TOMORROW – 3/22 – in Hudson NY!

Amplify Palestine's Riham Barghouti talks about BDS with @rvilkomerson.bsky.social, plus updates from the NYS Break the Bonds campaign @breakthebondsnys.bsky.social dsnys.bsky.social

(Columbia County folks, be sure to follow event organizers @cc4p.bsky.social)
Photo of Israel's destruction of Gaza community. Headline: "Community Responses to Israel's US-Supported War on Palestinians. Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions." When/Where: March 22 3:30 PM, Hudson Area Library, Hudson, New York. Photos of event speakers: Riham Barghouti, founding member of Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI); Rebecca Vilkomerson, former Executive Director, Jewish Voice for Peace; graphic for Break the Bonds New York State. Logos of six event co-sponsors.
March 21, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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Boycott Disney's Snow White!

Via @pacbi.bsky.social: "Gadot has consistently acted as a cultural ambassador for Israel, even hosting screenings of an Israeli military propaganda film that seeks to justify its live-streamed genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza."
Boycott Disney's Snow White movie! Featuring genocidal Israel's cultural ambassador Gal Gadot. Still of Gal Gadot wearing a crown and looking constipated and rather blank.
March 21, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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His friends running his GFM write, "Dorgham was not just an artist; he was a beacon of hope, resilience, and love for the children of Gaza. Until his final breath, he remained committed to bringing light and joy to those who needed it most."
Outside dozens of children are gathered in a circle formation and clapping. In the center stands a slender man with a baseball cap on.
March 21, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Hudson, NY – Amplify Palestine's Riham Barghouti is heading your way to talk BDS next Saturday (3/22)!

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Photo of Israel's destruction of Gaza community. Headline: "Community Responses to Israel's US-Supported War on Palestinians. Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions." When/Where: March 22 3:30 PM, Hudson Area Library, Hudson, New York. Photos of event speakers: Riham Barghouti, founding member of Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI); Rebecca Vilkomerson, former Executive Director, Jewish Voice for Peace; graphic for Break the Bonds New York State. Logos of six event co-sponsors.
March 14, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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Be sure to follow @/dancers_for_palestine on IG for forthcoming photos & video from tonight's protest of Batsheva, cultural ambassadors for genocide, at BAM + more info. about the boycott, including this excellent video >
www.instagram.com/p/DGk7y0GOqdb/
Boycott Batsheva. A dancer wearing a kefiyya in the foreground, with an ensemble of dancers behind her. Screenshot from Dancers for Palestine video.
March 7, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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They whitewash, we protest
Boycott sanction and divest!

Our protest of Batsheva delays curtains at BAM!
March 7, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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Dancers for Palestine: "Programming Batsheva during a genocide, BAM has turned its back on its community."
Die-in outside BAM
March 7, 2025 at 12:20 AM