PARTICIPANT INC commits to the guidelines of The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI), the cultural arm of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement.

As an organization that grew out of the unresolved histories of the alternative space movement and artist-led HIV/AIDS activism, PARTICIPANT is committed to the concepts of radical care and resistance that directly correlate with PACBI’s objectives toward Palestinian freedom, justice, and equality.

The alternative space movement was an anti-war movement.

Artists were at the forefront of AIDS activism.

And continue to speak loudly and clearly about intertwined issues at home and abroad through social movements from HIV/AIDS, disability justice, healthcare activism, to environmental, decolonial, and antiracist initiatives.

We join the PACBI movement with a commitment to refuse any role in normalizing occupation, apartheid, and genocide, recognizing these realities in Palestine; and refuse to participate in projects that receive financial support from the Israeli government.

PACBI upholds freedom of expression. It does not focus on individual artists, writers, or art workers, but instead constitutes a lens for self-scrutiny and a tactic that calls for institutional and material transformation.

PARTICIPANT rejects all forms of white supremacy, including the conflation of antisemitism with advocacy for a free Palestine.

This is not a statement, but an action toward building coalitions to end institutional silence around genocide in Gaza and beyond, and a call to stop arming Israel.