Tali Shapiro: The 2014 summer season of the Israel government propaganda Red Sea Jazz Festival is already in the works. As every season, we at the 10 Reasons for a Cultural Boycott of Israel campaign (10RCBI) re-open our petition to the booked artists, to cancel their participation with the whitewashing event. We’ve collected Over 6500 signatures with your help, and we’re not going to stop! Now, more than ever, as shocking events unfold in occupied Palestine- As children are burned alive and suffer even more extreme police and army brutality, as over 600 more Palestinians are imprisoned within 2 weeks, as Israel renews its attacks on Gaza, and as Palestinians all over take to the streets, refusing to lay down and die in the face of Israel’s massive oppression- we ask that you amplify their voice. Please SIGN and SHARE our petition to Jazz musicians Fred Hersch, Diane Schuur, Leny Andrade, Terence Blanchard and Lonnie Smith, to boycott the state funded and sponsored Red Sea Jazz Festival. More here.