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Occupation magazine - Activism Home page  back Print  Send To friend Say No to `Ahava` Festival! http://www.facebook.com/notes/anat-matar/share-a-facebook-campaign-against-ahava-festival-in-the-occupied-territories/122195551191329 During Passover the AHAVA Festival is due on the shores of the Dead Sea. The festival will take place at Mitzpe Shalem, a settlement located in the Palestinian part of the Dead Sea region. The festival sponsor is the AHAVA company whose factory is also located at the same settlement of Mitzpe Shalem. AHAVA`s activities constitute an outright robbery of minerals from Occupied Territory. For more information, see Code Pink`s `Stolen Beauty` site, http://www.stolenbeauty.org/ This festival will see some of the biggest names in Israeli pop and rock. The music lovers who intend to go to the festival should know that they would be taking part in an event whose aim to legitimize the settlement enterprise. Mitzpe Shalem was established in a territory occupied since 1967. It is as much a West Bank settlement as Ariel, Yitzhar or Kiryat Arba! We call upon the artists who a due to take part in the festival: Yehuda Poliker, Eviatar Banai, Micha Sheetrit, Arkadi Duchin, Yishai Levy, Ehud Banai, Moshe Levy, The Giraffes, Mosh Ben-Ari, Hadag Nahash, Shlomi Shaban, Shuli Rand - every one of them dear and beloved - to reconsider their participation! Participation in this festival is not a culturally neutral activity. It would be full-fledged political act, an act giving legitimizing and approving the occupation. PLEASE CONTACT THE ARTISTS, DETAILS BELOW: Hadag Nahash, `outspoken progressive leftists` contact@hadagnahash.com, PR agent: ruty@mp1.co.il Yehuda Poliker, the Jiraffes, Arkadi Dukhin, Micha Shitrit - PR agent: o-gur@barak.net.il Telephone 03-6913393 Fax 03-6953292 Shlomi Shaban and Shuli Rand PR agent: Michael Tapuah hvolume@zahav.net.il, hamon@zahav.net.il Tel: 03-6203335 Fax: 03-6203334 Ehud Banai, longtime outspoken critic of the Occupation, longtime participant in `Ahava` festivals in Occupied Territory! ehudbanai@shiloahp.co.il Tel: 03-5106061 Fax: 03-5106066 FB: http://www.facebook.com/ehudbanai Mosh Ben Ari: http://www.moshbenari.co.il/contact/ Evyatar Banai eviatarbanai@shiloahp.co.il Office phone and fax: same as Ehud Banai Ishay Levy FB page: ao Links to the latest articles in this section Jewish Voice for Peace holds Shabbat service with Rep. Rashida Tlaib Congresswoman Tlaib’s Statement on Travel to Palestine & Israel UPDATE : 30 Palestinian Prisoners Join Hunger Strike In Solidarity With 6 Detainees