London BDS activists disrupt BBC Proms performance of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra

http://londonbds.org/

The successful protest that disrupted the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra's concert at London's Royal Albert Hall and took the live Radio 3 broadcast off the air on September 1st made headlines around the world.

London BDS

Solidarity greetings from the "hub of hubs"

London BDS is a grassroots coalition of human-rights activists who proactively campaign for a free and independent Palestine.

This blog is put together by many people who support the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign called for by Palestinian Civil Society in 2005.

London BDS is non-hierarchical and has no formal membership structure -- anyone who supports the BDS campaign is part of our coalition.

This site strives to document local BDS actions in both visual and written form, as well as serve as both a source of information and inspire others who want to take similar action. Though our remit is to publicise BDS events and actions taking place in and around London, we also include coverage of Palestine solidarity events taking place elsewhere, both in the UK and abroad that involve London BDS activists.

When we were "Free Palestine Fortnightly Demo", we limited coverage to our fortnightly Ahava demonstrations in London's Monmouth Street near Covent Garden, but eventually realised that we could best support the BDS movement by documenting all BDS actions in the "hub of hubs" which is the well-deserved title Israel's Reut Institute gave to London in a 2010 report entitled Building a Political Firewall against the Assault on Israel's Legitimacy - London as a Case Study.

A wide range of groups and individuals are involved in London BDS, including student, campaign and solidarity groups, environmental, political and progressive organisations, actors, singers, musicians, activists, educators, pensioners, trade union members, unemployed workers, students, professionals, people of faith, legal workers, academics, as well as others.

We enjoy strong links with similar organisations both in the UK and abroad.

If you have an action, event, article, report, website, video, image(s) or idea(s) that you would like to share, please do get in touch.

And finally, if you're an organisation that would like to endorse us, we'd also love to hear from you

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[ChaseTheDub]

You people of LondonBDS are just beyond pathetic! you should all be hanging your heads in a collective shame! Your puerile rantings against Jews are so perverse & illogical. You are imitating the most hateful & murderous political party in history, you are the new 21st Century Nazi party!

Why don't you disrupt or harass a Muslim business/cultural event? cause that wouldn't fit into yr absurd politically-correct left wing views of the world! Hypocrites!

[ChaseTheDub]

@dublincelt And you Muslim-loving, politically correct, left wing loonies are very impartial aren't u?? yes, Muslims can do no wrong, and all the worlds problems should be blamed on The Jews, you ridiculous creature, one day your precious 'religion' (Political-correctness) will turn its ugly head on you. PC undermines free-speech, common sense, and objective politics, and it stifles honest debate, because anyone who disagrees with the loony left are labelled right wing nutjobs! grow up fool!

[rmollot]

It is time that the ISRAELIS realize that the PALESTINIANS ARE HUMAN BEINGS -- human beings who deserve to be killed. Their supporters are either complete ignoramuses, or just more Jew-hating excrement.

[HeadofIbis]

@elhamh Indeed? They destroyed the LAND of Palestine? I'd say they are the ones who BUILT it, from a crumbling ruin it was for 500 years of Turkish dominion into a modern country. They couldn't have destroyed Palestine as a STATE, because it never existed.

Furthermore, 1.5 MILLION Arabs of Palestinian origin, Muslims and Christians, live in Israel as fully fledged citizens. If Israel's goal was to eradicate these faiths, why didn't they start with those people?

[elhamh]

@HeadofIbis The Israeli's destroyed Palestine and eradicated Muslims, and Christians. but that's fine according to you, right? FOOL!

[HeadofIbis]

@elhamh The Palestinians wish to destroy Israel and eradicate the Jewish people - but that's fine according to you, right? FOOL

[SatchmoSings]

@elhamh YEs, Hamas has a common love for human rights; you make a good joke.

[SatchmoSings]

@artistsforpalestine Okay, so you can and do give me something to Google about the protesters but obviously you can't do the same regarding my remarks about how 440,000,000 Arabs in 22 countries have no appreciation for something like Classical music.

When you can show me some Arab high-school girls playing Beethoven's Fifth Symphony like these girls in Taiwan, then maybe I'll agree with you.

watch?v=tc9hIrxMngQ

There is also the Venezuelan Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra.

[elhamh]

FREE FREE PALESTINE!! I wish people would unite with their common love for human rights, and do stuff like this more often!:) If I only I could have been a part of this!

[Guitarded270]

@redelman43199 While I agree that it's wrong to disrupt an orchestra, what the audience was put through is nothing compared to what many people around the world have to go through on a daily basis. A lot of people don't realize they're born.

[redelman43199]

Disrupting a philharmonic orchestra, out of tune with civility.

[Knock1225]

who are those pathetic Jews who are joining the BDS protesters, they are about as weak of a human you can find