[Online] 🇵🇸📝 Petition: Tell BAM: Drop Batsheva, Cultural Ambassadors for Genocide

“On January 15, Dancers for Palestine, Theater Workers for a Ceasefire, and Amplify Palestine sent the following email to the President and Artistic Director of the Brooklyn Academy of Music, requesting a response by January 31. BAM leadership did not respond. The signatory organizations and individuals join the call for BAM to respect the BDS picket line by refusing to program Batsheva. We recognize that it is as important as ever to escalate pressure for the support of Palestinian liberation, given ongoing violations of the ceasefire in Gaza, the escalating violence in the West Bank, and the continued military occupation and Apartheid system of discrimination.

“We are New York City-based artists and cultural and social justice organizations and allies that support Palestinian human rights. We reject the use of art to normalize the atrocities Israel is perpetrating in Gaza – violence that has caused deep grief in our communities and that experts, scholars and human rights NGOs recognize as constituting genocide. In this time of crisis, we write to you because we greatly respect Brooklyn Academy of Music’s long history as a progressive arts institution and believe it is a grave mistake for you to program Batsheva Dance Company, which is scheduled to perform at the Howard Gilman Opera House March 6th-8th…”