Over 1,000 musicians, artists, cultural workers, and people of conscience, including Ms. Lauryn Hill, Danny Glover, Tony Kushner, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Sarah Schulman, Angela Y. Davis, Tyehimba Jess, Wallace Shawn, Rachel Kushner, Annie Baker, Eileen Myles, James Schamus, Udi Aloni, Slavoj Zizek, and Jacqueline Woodson have signed onto a solidarity call from the Palestinian community of Lydda including DAM asking for international protection for the indigenous Palestinians from Israeli state-sanctioned pogroms.
Statement:
As musicians, artists, cultural workers, and people of conscience worldwide we support these demands to protect Palestinians:
A UN investigation of Israeli apartheid, as recommended by Human Rights Watch and Palestinian civil society.
A UN peace-keeping force to protect the Indigenous Palestinian community in Israel from state-sanctioned racist violence, ethnic cleansing and pogroms.
As South African anti-apartheid leader Archbishop Desmond Tutu once said, “If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.”
Don’t remain “neutral.” Conquer your fear, and stand on the right side of history. Ending all oppression is #InOurHands.
To add your name go here.
Among the over one thousand signatories are:
Susan Abulhawa
Nancy Agabian
Tariq Ali
Julia Aloni
Udi Aloni
Yassin Alsalman
Sergio Atallah
Sheerly Avni
Annie Baker
Frank Barat
David Barsamian
Joel Beinen
Houri Berberian
Nina Berman
Susan Bernofsky
Brenna Bhandar
Fatima Bhutto
Judith Butler
Caroline Canazaro
Linda Chapman
Molly Crabapple
Denise Ferreira da Silva
Cynthia A. Franklin
Angela Davis
Sandra de la Loza
Johnny Diamond
Dolores Dorantes
Tishani Doshi
Lisa Duggan
Eran Efrati
Ben Ehrenreich
Deborah Eisenberg
Jordan Elgraby
Noura Erekat
Jodie Evans
Carla Faesler
Rob Fields
Bill Fletcher Jr.
Maureen Freely
Jessica Fuquay
Carina Karapetian Giorgi
Terri Ginsberg
Sinéad Gleeson
Danny Glover
Katy Grannan
Marilyn Hacker
Kara Hamilton
Omar Robert Hamilton
Michael Harris
Ms. Lauryn Hill
Greg Horwitch
Maria Hummel
Jason Hickel
Katherine J. Hite
Jen Eleana Hofer
Rachel Holmes
Joshua Jelly-Schapiro
Jamal Joseph
Melanie Joseph
Daniela Jorge
Fady Joudah
Azeezah Kanji
Nina Katchadourian
Tammy Kim
John King
Naomi Klein
Chris Kraus
Nancy Kricorian
Charlie A. Kupperman
Rachel Kushner
Tony Kushner
Laila Lailami
Marie Myung-Ok Lee
Gideon Lester
Mark LeVine
Ariel Lewiton
Tatiana Lipkes
Julia Loktev
Gloria C. Loomis
Catherine Lord
Roberto Lovato
David Lloyd
Craig Lucas
Shahe Mankerian
Mahmood Mamdani
Renisa Mawani
John Merrick
Philip Metres
Timothy Mitchell
Ottessa Moshfegh
Aja Monet
Johanna Murillo
Eileen Myles
Rehab Nazzal
Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark
Viet Thanh Nguyen
Joanne Nucho
John Oakes
José Orduña
David Palumbo-Liu
Dr. Miranda Pennell
Eva Woods Peiro
Samora Pinderhughes
Max Porter
Juan Manuel Portillo
Ben Rawlence
Marion Reimers
Bruce Robbins
Howard A. Rodman
Radhika Sainath
Vicky Sambunaris
Shamir Sanni
J. Scappettone
Claire Schwartz
Elyse Semerdjian
James Schamus
Sarah Schulman
Gingger Shankar
Allen Shawn
Wallace Shawn
Deema Shehabi
Eugene Shoulgin
Alisa Solomon
Ahdaf Soueif
Louise Steinman
Rea Tajiri
Astra Taylor
Faedeh M. Totah
Alberto Toscano
Robert Trivers
David L. Ulin
V (formerly Eve Ensler)
Rebecca Vilkomerson
Margo Viscusi
John B. Washington
Sarah Leah Whitson
Maya Wind
Jacqueline Woodson
Zahi Zalloua
Dave Zirin
Slavoj Zizek