Artists including Denzel Curry, My Bloody Valentine, Shygirl, Paris Paloma, Vacations, Innvervisions and YHWN Nailgun have joined more than 1,000 other performers and labels signing onto No Music For Genocide — a campaign urging creators and rights-holders to pull their catalogs from streaming services accessible in Israel amid the fragile truce with Hamas-led groups. No Music For Genocide asks participants to geo-block or remove music from Israeli platforms as a form of cultural protest.

The initiative builds on an expanding list of signatories that already features acts such as Clairo, Lucy Dacus, Wolf Alice, Of Monsters and Men, Lorde, Hayley Williams, Paramore, Björk, MUNA and Paloma Faith.

Organizers launched the campaign in September with more than 400 initial signatories. They say the urgency has intensified after reports that Israel allegedly committed nearly 500 ceasefire violations since the October U.S.-brokered deal that paused years of intensive strikes on Gaza. For further coverage of those reported violations, see Al Jazeera. Al Jazeera

No Music For Genocide frames the boycott as rooted in historical cultural actions — likening the effort to music boycotts during apartheid South Africa — and says it refuses to allow the music industry’s presence in Israel to be used to normalize policies it calls oppressive. The campaign’s statement emphasizes that music is both universal and political, and that withholding access is intended to pressure for accountability and justice rather than to erase art.

At the time of publication, the fragile ceasefire was largely holding, though Israeli forces reportedly continued strikes inside Gaza after alleging a breach of the truce by a Hamas gunman. For details on those developments, see the Times of Israel. Times of Israel

The current bout of conflict traces back to the Oct. 7, 2023 attack by Hamas militants on Israel, which killed nearly 2,000 people and resulted in the abduction of 251 hostages. After two years of fighting, Palestinian authorities reported that more than 69,000 Palestinians had been killed and roughly 170,000 injured amid widespread destruction and a deepening humanitarian crisis in Gaza. A tentative ceasefire was signed on Oct. 10 as a step toward negotiating a broader resolution.

No Music For Genocide held its first public fundraiser in New York last month, raising $7,000; organizers say all proceeds were directed to mutual-aid projects and family support funds serving Gaza and the occupied West Bank.

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