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Over 600 musicians, including Belly, Anwar Hadid, Black Thought and Questlove from The Roots, Cypress Hill, NARCY, NoName, Patti Smith, and Run the Jewels, have signed a statement demanding justice, dignity and the right to self-determination for the Palestinian people, and calls on artists to refuse to perform at Israel’s complicit cultural institutions.

Palestinians inspect the damage after Israeli air strikes in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on May 19, 2021. (Photo: Yasser Qudih/APA Images)

As Israeli Jews we call upon the international community to intervene immediately in order to stop Israel’s current aggressions, to adopt the demands of the Palestinian BDS movement; to work towards the actualization of the Palestinian Right of Return and to bring about historic justice; to reach a just and democratic solution for all, based on the decolonization of the region and found a state of all its citizens.