Artist Emily Jacir: Rampant Censorship Is Part of the Genocidal Campaign to Erase Palestinians

Support our work: We speak with awardwinning Palestinian American artist and filmmaker Emily Jacir, whose event in Berlin in October was canceled after Israel launched its ongoing assault on Gaza. Jacir decries a pattern of harassment, baseless smear campaigns, canceling shows, canceling talks conducted against Palestinian artists in Germany and around the world. It s very much part of a coordinated movement, she says, connecting global censorship of diasporic Palestinian voices with the violent targeted destruction of culture in Gaza, which she calls a part of Democracy Now is an independent global news hour that airs on over 1, 500 TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream at Mondays to Fridays 89 a. m. ET. Subscribe to our Daily Email Digest: