[Boycott - Cultural]

Alert 9th June / 11th June Protest Apartheid Israel Sponsored Film Festival

inminds
8 June 2015

1> Protest Israeli Deputy Ambassador reception: Apartheid Israel Sponsored Film Festival

DATE: Tuesday 9th June 2015, 5:15pm
LOCATION: Goethe Institut, 50 Princes Gate, Exhibition Road, London SW7 7PH (near South Kensington tube)
FACEBOOK EVENT: https://www.facebook.com/events/460200060808387/

To mark the 50th anniversary of Israel-German relations Eitan Na'eh, Israel's Deputy Ambassador in London, and Tania Freiin von Uslar-Gleichen, Germany's Deputy Ambassador in London, are hosting a reception at the Goethe Institut to kick off the Israeli government sponsored SERET 2015 London Israeli Film Festival with an exclusive preview of the film Farewell Herr Schwarz.

Please join us as we protest outside the Goethe Institut on Tuesday 9th June 5:15pm.

(Please note that the event is also an emergency protest in solidairty with hunger striker Sheikh Khader Adnan whose condition is critical after 35 days on hunger strike. See separate post for this aspect of the protest).

2> Protest Apartheid Israel Sponsored Film Festival - Picket Opening Gala at BAFTA

DATE: Thursday 11th June 2015, 6:15pm
LOCATION: BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts), 195 Piccadilly London W1J 9LN ( Closest tube: Piccadilly Circus or Green Park)
FACEBOOK EVENT: https://www.facebook.com/events/685511454909783/

We will also be protesting outside the public opening Gala of the festival on Thursday 11th June 2015 at 6:15pm outside BAFTA asking them to stop its complicity in this whitewashing of apartheid and giving out leaflets to the public, talking to them about boycotting 'brand Israel'. Please join us!

BRAND ISRAEL & SERET

At the launch of last years Seret film festival Israel's ambassador to the UK Daniel Taub stressed the importance of "the role the Festival plays in providing a platform for spreading a more accurate picture of Israel across all communities". At the launch the programme director "said that the founders saw themselves as informal ambassadors for Israel". Another co-founder of the festival, Odelia Haroush, was previously the marketing manager of the Ahava shop in Covent Garden that sold stolen dead sea produce and was forced to shut down in Sept 2011 after a sustained campaign by human rights activists. She sees the film festival as a direct response to the boycott Israel campaign. The festival is also co-sponsored by occupation profiteers like Bank Leumi.

We have picketed the Seret film festival from its inception 3 years ago and we will be picketing it again this year. Please join us as we protest outside the private launch of the festival at Goethe Institut on Tuesday 9th June 5:15pm, and the public opening gala at BAFTA on 11th June at 6:15pm.

Last Years Protest Of SERET 2014

Last years protest against Opening Gala of Israeli government sponsored Seret at BAFTA

Last years protest against Opening Gala of Israeli government sponsored Seret at BAFTA

Last years protest against Opening Gala of Israeli government sponsored Seret at BAFTA

Last years protest against Opening Gala of Israeli government sponsored Seret at BAFTA

Last years protest against Opening Gala of Israeli government sponsored Seret at BAFTA

Last years protest against Opening Gala of Israeli government sponsored Seret at BAFTA

Last years protest against Israeli government sponsored Seret 2014 outside Lumier

Last years protest against Israeli government sponsored Seret 2014 outside Swiss Cottage Odeon

Last years protest against Israeli government sponsored Seret 2014 outside Swiss Cottage Odeon

Source: www.inminds.com

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