Recently the Sydney Festival has come under fire for accepting a $20,000 partnership with the Israeli Embassy in Canberra. The funds are to be used to stage Decadence by Israeli choreographer Ohad Naharin at the Sydney Opera House at the 2022 Festival in January.
On 16 December the Palestine Justice Movement Sydney initiated a campaign on The Action Network, calling for the Sydney Festival to ‘reject complicity with Israeli apartheid’. The campaign has gathered 2,916 letters of support sent to Sydney Festival’s board at the time of writing.
