Union of Progressive Jews boycotts Jewish festival
“In no way do we endorse Israel as an occupying and colonising state”, the UPJB notes. The union “adheres to the international call for boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) aimed, as in the past vis-a-vis the South African apartheid regime, to exert peaceful pressure on Israel to force it to comply with international law. This does not prevent us from regularly organising, as we have always done, public events with Israeli artists, intellectuals and activists who interest us, for example because they criticise the government's policies. Boycott applies not to groups and individuals with Israeli citizenship, but to the occupation policy of the Israeli government and all it entails”.
