Plus d'une centaine d'artistes, dont des stars hollywoodiennes, des auteurs acclamés et des musiciens de premier plan, exigent des comptes pour le meurtre par Israël de la journaliste palestinienne Shireen Abu Akleh.
Pedro Almodovar, Susan Sarandon, Tilda Swinton, Mark Ruffalo, Eric Cantona, Miriam Margolyes, Jim Jarmusch, Naomi Klein et Peter Gabriel appellent dans une lettre à des sanctions en fonction de « l'entière responsabilité des auteurs de ce crime et de toutes les personnes impliquées dans son autorisation ».
Les artistes et les personnalités publiques ont critiqué un « modèle de violence, de harcèlement et d'intimidation contre les journalistes palestiniens qui mettent en lumière ce qu'Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch et la principale organisation israélienne de défense des droits humains, B'Tselem, ont décrit comme un système de l'apartheid imposé au peuple palestinien ».
Citant la réponse à l'invasion de l'Ukraine par la Russie, les auteurs Colm Tóibín, Kamila Shamsie, Arundhati Roy, Philip Pullman et Monica Ali ont appelé les gouvernements occidentaux à « mettre fin à leur hypocrisie et à agir avec cohérence dans l'application du droit international et des droits de l'homme ».
« Il ne doit pas y avoir de doubles standards en matière de droit humain fondamental à la liberté, contre la persécution et l'oppression, et le droit à la vie et à la dignité ». ont conclu les signataires, parmi lesquels l'acteur et ancien footballeur Eric Cantona, l'auteure Naomi Klein, la DJ Marea Stamper (The Blessed Madonna) et l'auteur et économiste Yanis Varoufakis.
Liste des 126 signataires :
Khalid Abdalla, actor
Hany Abu Assad, film director
Tunde Adebimpe, musician
Ahsan Akbar, poet
Yasmine Al Massri, actor
Omar Al Qattan, film director
Monica Ali, author
Candace Allen writer
Pedro Almodovar, film director
Anthony Anaxagorou, poet
Ramin Bahrani, film director
Adam Bakri, actor
Saleh Bakri, actor
Joslyn Barnes, producer
Roy Battersby, TV director
Sarah Beddington, filmmaker, artist
Ronan Bennett, author, screenwriter
Frances Black, singer
Nicholas Blincoe, author
Iciar Bollain, film director
Juan Diego Botto, actor
Haim Bresheeth, filmmaker, scholar
Victoria Brittain, writer
Adam Broomberg, artist
David Calder, actor
Carmen Callil, publisher, editor
Eric Cantona, actor
Iggor Cavalera, musician
Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, choreographer
Julie Christie, actor
Isabel Coixet, film director
Steve Coogan, actor, comedian
Mark Cousins, writer, director
Liam Cunningham, actor
William Dalrymple, author
Angela Davis, author
Andy de la Tour, actor
Jeremy Deller, artist
Stephen Dillane, actor
Sara Driver, film director
Ben Ehrenreich, author
Brian Eno, musician
Jodie Evans, producer
Shepard Fairey, artist
Bella Freud, designer
Peter Gabriel, musician
Trevor Griffiths, playwright, screenwriter
Kathryn Hahn, actor
Charles Hayward, musican
M Imhotep, musician
Nicolás Jaar, musician
Gemma Jackson, production designer
Jim Jarmusch, film director
Asif Kapadia, film director
Aki Kaurismaki, film director
John Keane, artist
Brigid Keenan, author
Patrick Keiller, filmmaker
Peter Kennard, artist
AL Kennedy, author
Jennine Khalik, journalist
Naomi Klein, author, activist
Peter Kosminsky, screenwriter, director
Jan Kounen, film director
Nancy Kricorian, author
Hari Kunzru, author
Seun Kuti, musician
Pau Laverty, screenwriter
Mike Leigh, film director
Laima Leyton musician, artist
Jim Loach, film director
Ken Loach, film director
Dónal Lunny, musician
Mahmood Mamdani, author
Miriam Margolyes, actor
Kika Markham, actor
Yann Martel, author
Emer Martin, author
Massive Attack, band
Kleber Mendonça Filho, film director
Christy Moore, musician
Thurston Moore, musician
Tom Morello, musician
Carol Morley, film director
Laura Mulvey, film scholar
Karthika Nair, poet
Mira Nair, film director
Courttia Newland, author, screenwriter
Pratibha Parmar, film director
Maxine Peake, actor
Aubrey Powell, designer
Philip Pullman, author
Stephen Rea, actor
Boots Riley, screenwriter, director
Bruce Robbins, author, literary scholar
Olga Rodriguez, author
Jacqueline Rose, author, scholar
Arundhati Roy, author
Mark Ruffalo, actor
Alberto San Juan, actor
Susan Sarandon, actor
Alexei Sayle, comedian, author
James Schamus, screenwriter, producer
Nick Seymour, musician
Kamila Shamsie, author
Tai Shani, artist
Alia Shawkat, actor
Marea Stamper, DJ
Juliet Stevenson, actor
Tilda Swinton, actor
Colm Tóibín, author
Ricky Tomlinson, actor
Ben UFO, DJV, author, playwright
Yanis Varoufakis, author
Mirza Waheed, author
Harriet Walter, actor
Roger Waters, musician
Irvine Welsh, author
Monique Wilson, actor, activist
Jane Wilson, artist
Louise Wilson, artist
Michael Winterbottom, film director
Penny Woolcock, screenwriter, director
Susan Wooldridge, actor
Robert Wyatt, musician
Source : Artists for Palestine UK
CAPJPO-EuroPalestine