Over 16,000 artists, including hundreds of Palestinian artists, six Academy Award winners, and eight Pulitzer Prize winning writers, have signed a letter denouncing Israel’s apartheid system and calling on countries “to cut trade, economic and cultural relations.”

This spring as the fight to save Sheikh Jarrah, Gaza, and all of Palestine from Israeli settler-colonialism slowly became a mainstay in mainstream public discourse, thousands of artists, musicians, and other culture makers have spoken out in support if Palestine. These statements are not only important political bellwethers, but also essential catalysts for social change.

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.