No Business as usual

Together with more than 700 Belgian and Dutch cultural subjects, SPIN has responded to the call of the sector for a formal cultural boycott of the Israeli state and institutions and therefore signed the chart "No Business as usual"

"We, members of the Dutch and Belgian cultural sector, wish to no longer remain bystanders to the ongoing war crimes, crimes against humanity and what has been widely recognized by all authoritative institutions as a genocide of the Palestinian people. With immediate effect, in response to sustained calls from Palestinian artists and civil society at large, we declare a cultural boycott of the Israeli state and of all Israeli institutions and companies. Exempted from the boycott are those Israeli institutions and companies that are not complicit in violations of international law and have unequivocally spoken out against genocide, apartheid and the illegal occupation. The boycott is explicitly not directed at individuals or their origins, and therefore not at Jewish people or Israelis as such, but rather at the complicity of the Israeli state and Israeli institutions and companies in grave human rights violations against the Palestinian people. This initiative also aligns with previous decisions made by the Leuven City Council, the International Court of Justice's ruling in July 2024, and the 1948 Genocide Convention"
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