Speak up!

Use your platform to call for an immediate and permanent ceasefire. Speak out against Israel’s bombing and siege on Gaza, and against Israeli apartheid in Palestine.
Highlight and amplify Palestinian voices, no matter whether your following is large or small.
Use your social media, concerts, radio show, mailing list, songs - any way that you can communicate with people - to call for a permanent ceasefire
Encourage your fans and followers to speak up, and empower them to take action in solidarity with Palestinians.

Follow these Palestinian accounts on social media

Follow them on social media, like and share their posts, buy or stream their music, go to their concerts
Find these musicians by looking at the signatures on pledges and open letters

Research the position of venues, promoters, festivals, etc before you work with them

Be consistent in the application of your ethics, & be public about it: Boycott clubs that are anti-Palestinian, anti-Arab, racist, antisemitic, or anti-LGBTQ+
Refuse offers to perform at Conne Island in Leipzig, Golden Pudel in Hamburg, and ://about blank in Berlin. The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) has called for the boycott of these three German clubs.

Don’t perform in venues or events that are complicit with Israeli Occupation and Apartheid - for example, the venue Barby in Tel Aviv, which gave free t-shirts saying “Fuck you we’re from Israel” to Israeli soldiers who participated in the 2014 massacres of civilians in Gaza.
Other examples of complicit events are anything sponsored by the Israeli government. Popkultur festival in Berlin (Germany) was previously funded by Israel, but thanks to continued pressure by musicians they have ended their collaboration with the Israeli state.

Boycott HÖR Berlin - this means declining any offer to perform a DJ set on their platform. Some DJs are also contacting HÖR to ask that their sets be removed from HÖR’s archives.

HÖR is censoring solidarity with Palestinians, perpetuating anti-Palestinian racism, and shielding Israel from criticism. They admitted to censoring an artist who wore a t-shirt featuring a depiction of historic Palestine. HÖR said they censored this artist because depicting historic Palestine is “offensive” and contradicts the importance of “keeping our platform as a respectful space.”
Read more about Artists cutting ties with HÖR Berlin over Palestine censorship

Palestinian civil society has called for people around the world to boycott, divest and sanction companies that are complicit in Israeli occupation and apartheid.
Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) is a Palestinian-led movement for freedom, justice and equality. BDS upholds the simple principle that Palestinians are entitled to the same rights as the rest of humanity.
The BDS strategy involves focused campaigns against specific companies that are involved in human rights violations in Palestine.
Visit the BDS website to learn more about how you can get involved.

We are more powerful together - organize with your party collective, record label, music school, radio station… Learn, strategise and take action together.

Collaborate with the Palestinian community in your town/city.
Invite Palestinian DJs, musicians, speakers and artists to participate in the event.
Use your event as a way to educate the crowd and get people involved. While raising money is definitely important, sharing information and encouraging people to take action is crucial for building a strong and long-lasting movement. Inform your audience of upcoming protests and actions, offering guidance in how to get involved. For example:

Inform people about how to contact their political representatives
Have petitions available to sign
Share fliers with information about what is happening in Palestine and local protest and educational events

Be mindful of where you’re donating to: currently no aid is entering Gaza; ask your local Palestinian community where are the best places to donate. It may make more sense to raise funds for diaspora communities who are the ones organizing demonstrations and often experiencing repression.

The European Legal Support Center (ELSC) supports people in Europe and the UK who get arrested, experience police brutality or lose their job due to solidarity with Palestine.
Palestine Legal protects the civil and constitutional rights of people in the U.S. who speak out for Palestinian freedom.
Recommended organizations working on the ground in Palestine

If a musician you know is considering touring in Israel or playing at an event that is complicit in genocide, don’t attack them or shame them on social media.
Reach out to them in private and try to begin a dialogue to help them learn more and make an informed decision.

If they change their mind and decide to speak up in solidarity with Palestinians, show appreciation and welcome them into the movement.

If you experience discrimination or repression related to your solidarity with Palestine - for example your concert is canceled - document what happened:

Try to get things in writing, save emails, and screenshot chats from messaging apps. Take photos or scan documents if relevant.
You can report this discrimination and get legal advice

Decolonize Palestine
Visualizing Palestine, project that uses research and data visualization to communicate Palestinian experiences and provoke narrative change
Project48
Zochrot

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