Palestine-Alsharqiya, August 16: The boycott of Israel movement thwarted a normalization festival under the name "Three Beats" in the occupied city of Jerusalem, after a group of artistic teams and artists withdrew from participating.

In a statement issued, on Tuesday, on its official Facebook page, the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel saluted "Palestinian art groups and male and female artists for their quick response and cancellation of their participation in the (3 Daqat) festival of alternative music organized by a center in the Israeli-Palestinian Normalization House." They are: Tamer Qais, Zenobia Band, Sarv, Kalasat Band, Yusor Hamed, and Juliano Harb.

The statement pointed out that the withdrawal of the Palestinian artists led to the failure and cancellation of the festival, which was scheduled to be held between 17 and 19 August.

The statement pointed out that “At Home” is a center affiliated with the Israeli Mekudeshet Foundation, which “receives funding and sponsorship from the occupation municipality. It is the same that previously supervised the normal Jerusalem culture season before and received support from what is also called the City Museum.”

The BDS movement has called over the past years to boycott all activities organized by the Israeli Holy Foundation.

The statement added: "Although the program of this festival included only Palestinian artists, the framework based on it is an Israeli-Palestinian framework that explicitly aims to bring together Palestinians and Israelis in the occupied city of Jerusalem to normalize the occupation, and thus is another attempt to exploit Palestinian artists as fig leaves to beautify The image of the occupation regime, settler colonialism, and Israeli apartheid, and covering up its crimes against our people everywhere, especially in the city of Jerusalem.On its website, for example, Frame at Home is proud to host communities and groups from Jerusalem, Israel, and the world to learn about and participate in countless experiences and events unique culture.

The statement pointed out that the campaign had previously contacted the participating artists to warn them that "the organizer of this festival is an Israeli-Palestinian framework well versed in artistic normalization in the occupied city of Jerusalem. The campaign's call to boycott the festival received a quick response... which forced those in charge of it to cancel it." Later".

The campaign considered that "this position is an extension of the Palestinian national position that refuses to legitimize and normalize relations with the Israeli colonial and apartheid regime, especially in occupied Jerusalem, as the regime seeks to undermine the Arab-Palestinian cultural identity with its components and to perpetuate the Israeli annexation of occupied Jerusalem."

She believed that "this kind of festivals, which are sponsored and organized by normalizing institutions, impede the strengthening of the steadfastness of our people in Jerusalem, as well as the original artistic and cultural initiatives and efforts that fight attempts to steal or destroy Palestinian culture and art and attempts to exploit them to cover up the Judaization processes in the city."

The statement stressed that "the Center at Home's explicit declaration that it belongs to an Israeli Zionist institution that does not recognize the basic rights of our people under international law (and an institution well versed in normalization as well) in the occupied city of Jerusalem, makes dealing with it a violation of the anti-normalization standards approved by the Palestinian society by the overwhelming majority of Its political forces, frameworks, and popular unions. Moreover, this framework is morally and politically equal between the two parties, that is, between the colonizer and the colonized, and ignores the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people, the most important of which is self-determination and the return of refugees.”