Learn About Cultural Boycott
Note on Cultural Boycott
From 2023-2025, WAWOG helped to secure over 300 PACBI commitments in the U.S. and almost 100 PACBI commitments in Canada. We list these organizations on this page as a credit to their work and in the interests of connecting culture workers to publishers, presses, and arts institutions that have shown a commitment to the Palestinian people.
Cultural institutions and their communities are part and parcel of the ideological and institutional scaffolding of Israel’s regime of occupation, settler-colonialism, and apartheid against the Palestinian people. Israeli cultural institutions (including performing art companies, music groups, film organizations, writers’ unions and festivals) have cast their lot with the hegemonic Zionist establishment in Israel. Notwithstanding the efforts of principled individual artists, writers, and filmmakers, these institutions are clearly implicated in supporting, justifying and whitewashing Israel’s occupation and systematic denial of Palestinian rights.
Recent Articles on Cultural Boycott
“Cultural Boycott and Ending Complicity in Genocide,” Forge
“PACBI Now,” The New Inquiry
“The Responsibility of Culture Workers to Help Stop the War on Gaza,” The Nation
“The Cultural Boycott: Israel vs. South Africa,” Hyperallergic
Institutions Endorsing the Call
Presses and Publishers
Radix Media Press and Printshop
Art Galleries, Performance Venues, and Public Programs
Bijlmer Parktheater, Amsterdam
Center for Experimental Lectures, NYC
Centre d'art et de diffusion CLARK, Montréal
Enable Arts Society, Vancouver
The Khyber Centre for the Arts, Halifax
Mayworks Festival of Working People and the Arts, Toronto
Media City Film Festival, Windsor/Detroit
Melrose Botanical Garden, Los Angeles
MT Space Theater, Kitchener-Waterloo
New Harlem Productions, Hamilton
Now Instant Image Hall, Los Angeles
Poetic Research Bureau, Los Angeles
The Poetry Project at St. Marks Church, NYC
Public Media Institute, Chicago
Rotations Film Series, Los Angeles
Shakespeare on the Ruff, Toronto
South Willard Gallery, Los Angeles
Tangled Art & Disability, Toronto
Teesri Dunya Theatre, Montréal
Toronto Palestine Film Festival
Vancouver International Dance Festival
Whippersnapper Gallery, Toronto
Wildseed Centre for Art and Activism, Toronto
Your Mood Projects, San Francisco
Magazines, Journals, and Periodicals
Bookstores and Fairs
Bureau of General Services—Queer Division, NYC
East Bay Alternative Book and Zine Fest, Berkeley
Matilija Lending Library and Bookstore, El Monte, CA
North Figueroa Bookshop, Los Angeles
Pilsen Community Books, Chicago
Topos Booksellers and Press, Brooklyn
Cooperatives and Collectives
From the River to the Sea Collective
Music and Nightlife
Educational Institutions and Residencies
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research Literary and Academic Organizations
Asian American Writers’ Workshop
Media Arts Organizations
Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre
Independent Media Arts Alliance
National Indigenous Media Arts Coalition
Literary Agencies
Podcasts and Radio
Design Studios
Fashion Houses
Newsletters
Further lists of PACBI-Endorsing Projects
Art Workers for Palestine Scotland
Theater Workers for a Ceasefire
PACBI Banner: Michael DeForge
