Joining with many other writers, publishers, bookshops and arts organisations, Silver Press is signing on to the call of the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI). We join the growing nonviolent Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement in support of Palestinian liberation. This means we will not collaborate with Israeli academic and cultural institutions that are systematically complicit in whitewashing, justifying or otherwise maintaining the Israeli occupation and denial of basic Palestinian rights.
Initiated in 2004 and inspired by the cultural boycott campaign against apartheid South Africa, PACBI aims to draw a line between culture workers and the actions of governments funding and endorsing the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians by Israel.
PACBI is institutional and does not target individuals as such. Committed to freedom of expression as stipulated in the United Nations International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), PACBI rejects, on principle, boycotts of individuals based on their opinion or identity (such as citizenship, race, gender, or religion).
Further information regarding the Palestinian call for the cultural boycott of Israel can be found here: https://bdsmovement.net/pacbi
A list of other presses joining can be found here: https://www.writersagainstthewarongaza.com/pacbi