A group of 80 LGBTQIA filmmakers and artists have signed a pledge to boycott Tel Aviv's TLVFest film festival in 'solidarity' with Palestinian homosexuals. More details:
The group has signed a pledge not to participate in Tel Aviv's TLVFest in"solidarity" with Palestinian homosexuals.
The pledge was organized by PACBI, the academic and cultural arm of the Boycott Divestment Sanctions movement, a pro-Palestinian activist group that seeks to cut, among other things, global cultural ties with Israel in protest of the country's treatment of Palestinians in Israel and the the occupied territories.
Film scholars Alexandra Juhasz, Thomas Waugh, Alisa Lebow, Marc Siegel, Shohini Ghosh, So Mayer, Ingrid Ryberg and Michele Aaron have also signed the pledge. Now onto its 15h edition, the 2020 TLVFest is due to take place June 4-June 13. According to the campaigners, there have been decade-long efforts to engage with the the festival, but it continues to maintain a partnership with the Israeli Ministry of Culture. As such, they claim that the TLVFest is being used as part of "pinkwashing efforts," using LGBTQIA rights to "project a progressive image while denying the rights of all Palestinians, queer and non queer alike.
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