Palestinian artists call for boycott of Israeli arts bodies
After recording police crackdowns on protesters in Israel, Palestinian artists call for the international community to adopt a strategy of non-violent pressure. Anny Shaw reports.
The Turner Prize-nominated artist Lawrence Abu Hamdan turned over his Instagram account to fellow artist Inas Halabi on Tuesday night as she reported live from Haifa on the continued police crackdowns on protestors in the Jewish-Arab city.
Nightly demonstrations have been taking place all week after hundreds of Palestinians were injured when Israeli forces stormed the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem on Monday, firing tear gas and rubber bullets at worshippers. Other protests have focused on the threatened forced eviction of dozens of Palestinians from their homes in the middle-class Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood in East Jerusalem.
Halabi recorded footage on Tuesday evening showing sound bombs being thrown, including a video of a Palestinian protestor who... Keep reading on The Art Newspaper.
The Turner Prize-nominated artist Lawrence Abu Hamdan turned over his Instagram account to fellow artist Inas Halabi on Tuesday night as she reported live from Haifa on the continued police crackdowns on protestors in the Jewish-Arab city.
Nightly demonstrations have been taking place all week after hundreds of Palestinians were injured when Israeli forces stormed the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem on Monday, firing tear gas and rubber bullets at worshippers. Other protests have focused on the threatened forced eviction of dozens of Palestinians from their homes in the middle-class Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood in East Jerusalem.
Halabi recorded footage on Tuesday evening showing sound bombs being thrown, including a video of a Palestinian protestor who... Keep reading on The Art Newspaper.