Thank you, @brianeno. #popkulturberlin #popkultur2023 #popkulturfestival

After a six year BDS campaign, Pop-Kultur Berlin has finally dumped apartheid Israel. Should the festival resume its partnership in future, we will again urge artists to withdraw, as so many did before. https://t.co/TxwYSDQCMe

Should the festival resume its partnership with apartheid Israel, whichever colonial faction of its far-right rulers is in government, we will urge participating artists to withdraw once again. #pk23

Regardless of these inconsistencies, we agree with the musicians who wrote in an open letter yesterday that they “hope the festival continues its ethical stance by not partnering with apartheid Israel in the future”. https://t.co/kn8KDJQBXS

Now they expect artists and the media to believe that it would have been impossible for any participating Israeli artist to make a funding application at short notice. Both cannot be true.

Last year, the festival irrefutably concealed the resumption of its partnership with the Israeli embassy, claiming it was only agreed last-minute.

This strongly suggests that the festival’s public statements are intended to disguise the festival’s earlier decision to deliberately exclude apartheid Israel in 2023. #popkultur2023

Yet, several artists told campaigners that #popkultur festival promised them months ago there would be no involvement of any embassy this year.

Typical of #popkulturberlin's unprofessionalism, evasiveness and deceit, organisers have told the media that no Israeli artist wanted embassy support this year.

Media reports have speculated on the reasons for #popkulturfestival not partnering with Israel this year, giving credit to the “impact” of the Palestinian-led BDS movement, as well as ongoing protests from liberal Zionist Israelis against judicial reform.

More than 20 artists have boycotted the anti-Palestinian racist festival since 2017, including headliners Young Fathers that year, responding to the call from Palestinian society to hold Israel accountable according to international law, just as apartheid South Africa once was.

Six years after the first artists withdrew from @popkulturberlin over its partnership with the embassy of apartheid Israel, the festival has finally ended the shameful, long-standing collaboration.

.@popkulturberlin has finally dropped apartheid Israel as partner! Musicians, including festival participants, as well as Brian Eno, The Blessed Madonna, Peter Gabriel and others, are welcoming the decision. #popkulturberlin #popkulturfestival #popkultur2023 #pk23 #popkultur

We urge participating artists to demand @popkulturberlin festival publicly clarify its current partnership with the embassy of apartheid Israel. 🧵 #PopKultur2023 #PopKultur

Rasha Nahas on @popkulturberlin. #PopKultur2023 #PopKultur

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Wie viele Künstler*innen, Fachleute aus der Branche und Medienkanäle werden sie mit ihrem ideologischen Engagement für die Beschönigung von Israels Massakern und systemischer rassistischer Gewalt noch verprellen?

.@popkulturberlin hat fortschrittliche Künstler*innen in beschämender Weise vor die Wahl gestellt, entweder die Partnerschaft mit #Apartheid-Israel stillschweigend zu unterstützen oder durch einen Rückzug im letzten Moment finanzielle Verluste in Kauf zu nehmen.

Wir sind @xeniarubinos dankbar für ihre Solidaritätsbekundung mit dem palästinensischen Volk. #popkultur #pk2022 #pk22

Xenia Rubinos Will Perform At Berlin’s @popkulturberlin “With A Heavy Heart” Citing Festival Ties to Israel @xeniarubinos: 'I want to make it clear that I stand with the activists, artists and people of Palestine.' https://t.co/upVNWuJolv