Cartography / Culture – Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign

Half the Ramallah Orchestra at St Anne Church

Israeli military checkpoints prevent Palestinian cultural event

10 July 2012

Ramallah Orchestra’s performance of ‘Eroica’ in Jerusalem is cancelled due to Israeli interference by Tom Suarez July 2, 2012 The Ramallah Orchestra, an initiative of the music conservatory Al Kamandjati, was to perform a free […]

Looted Palestinian books, labelled 'absentee property'

Israel’s war on Palestinian culture

7 July 2012

by Maureen Clare Murphy on Mon 24 Oct 2011 In a new article made available today by the journal Jerusalem Quarterly, activist and The Electronic Intifada contributor Hannah Mermelstein discusses a lesser known part of […]

Israeli police blocking participants and audience from entering the Palestine National Theater in E. Jerusalem

Armed Israeli police close theatre on first night of Palestinian festival

7 July 2012

Rory McCarthy, Jerusalem, Guardian, May 24th 2009 Shortly before the opening event was due to begin, a squad of around a dozen Israeli border police walked into the Palestinian National Theatre, in East Jerusalem, and […]

Threats on Hakawati,the Palestinian National Theater

1 August 2009

Report by the Alternative Information Centre 10 July 2009 On 5 July , the AIC visited the Palestinian National Theatre, Hakawati, to inquire with its Director, Jamal Ghosheh, the question of the theatre being shut […]

Israeli authorities ban Palestinian Cultural Festival

25 March 2009

Press release, Al-Haq, 22 March 2009 Israeli police dispersed a meeting at the Ambassador Hotel in East Jerusalem of the organizers of the planned cultural activities, and confiscated related material and computers. The Israeli authorities […]