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ALT Dear CTM workers, artists, performers. It contunes to violate the community-led boycott of Berghain. The boycott is due to Berghain's censorship of artists in solidarity with Palestine.
ALT In their post on Gaza (17.10.23), CTM used passive voice for Israel's actions, making Palestinians the aggressor and calling genocide a "humanitarian situation". CTM has never retracted this. Such "both sides" statements by institutions help manufacture consent for genocide while obscuring the colonial basis of the encounter.
ALT We are reaching out to workers, artists and performers who are booked at CTM who might care. We felt it was important to inform you about this in case you were unaware. CT; uses "giving a platform" to radical artists and initiatives to whitewash and distract from their deep complicity, which is very much in line with the fascist German government and Berlin Senate.
ALT We hope you will join others like CRRDR, who have already withdrawn from CTM 2026 in solidarity with Palestine. Watch CRRDR's withdrawal statement. A full version of the open letter is available at the link in the tweet.
ALT screenshot of a paused instagram video of someone with pale skin and black hair speaking into the camera. edited into the video is a screenshot of the line-up of CTM festival in Berghain.
ALT screenshot of the thumbnail of an instagram video of someone with pale skin and black hair looking into the camera. edited into the video is a screenshot of an instagram post which reads: an appeal to CTM Festival Withdraw your events at Zionist Berghain
ALT An appeal to CTM Festival Withdraw your events at Zionist Berghain. RAVERS FOR PALESTINE
ALT CTM's Berghain events (27-29 Jan) feature underground artists from across the Global Majority - from Aunty Rayzor to CRRDR and Dengue Dengue Dengue! By encouraging them to break an anticolonial boycott, CTM: ■Launders Berghain's Zionism via association with Global Majority artists; ■ Co-opts & defangs the resistant, anticolonial legacies of Global Majority music. RAVERS FOR PALESTINE
ALT By contrast, look how stridently CTM articulates its support for Western-back Ukraine ('they have decided to resist ... with all possible means'). They even called for direct donations to its military. "Note: We are aware of the controversy around whether or not to directly support the Ukrainian military. We have included links to organisations providing military aid, because we believe this decision is best taken by each person individually, based on your beliefs and priorities. We find it important to consider that the Ukrainian people have been attacked and have decided to resist the Russian criminal invasion with all possible means. From our position of safety, we believe that those directly affected will know best what the situation requires, and that we should listen and respond to their call."
ALT CTM's refusal to Boycott Berghain points to a wider question about its politics. In its only public statement on Gaza (17 Oct '23), CTM gave a scolding, 'both-sides' take: using the passive voice for 'Israel's' actions, making Palestinians the aggressor, and framing the genocide as a "humanitarian situation". Despite community appeals, it has never retracted or apologised for this harmful act of normalisation. Ravers for Palestine
ALT An appeal to CTM Festival Withdraw your events at Zionist Berghain. RAVERS FOR PALESTINE
ALT CTM's Berghain events (27-29 Jan) feature underground artists from across the Global Majority - from Aunty Rayzor to CRRDR and Dengue Dengue Dengue! By encouraging them to break an anticolonial boycott, CTM: ■Launders Berghain's Zionism via association with Global Majority artists; ■ Co-opts & defangs the resistant, anticolonial legacies of Global Majority music. RAVERS FOR PALESTINE
ALT instagram post from Ravers for Palestine which reads: Berghain & 'israel' Exploring the venue's deep, abiding links to the entity
ALT in 2024, Berghain deplatformed Arabian panther for supporting Palestinian liberation. This was not an abberation. As the following slides show, the club has provided overt, material support to 'israel' for many years. If you play at or attend Berghain, you are complicit.
ALT First, let's examine Berghain's currently most active residents*. - 25 out of the 32 (78%) have performed in 'israel' - Seven have played in 'israel' more than ten times - Thirteen had gigs there as recent as 2023 Sources: https://berghain.ravers.workers.dev, accessed November 8, 2025 Resident Advisor, Artist bios
ALT #times performed in 'israel' Roi Perez 46 Âme 30 Boris 23 Ben Klock 16 Rødhåd 14 Gerd Janson 11 Efdemin 10 Marcel Dettmann 09 DVS1 07 Answer Code Request 6 PARAMIDA 6 Massimiliano Pagliara 6 Steffi 6 Tama Sumo 4 Virginia 4 nd_baumecker 4 Fiedel 3 Norman Nodge 3 Lakuti 2 Gabrielle Kwarteng 1 Ogazón 1 Barker 1 Phase Fatale 1 Quelza 1 Fadi Mohem 1
ALT instagram post from Ravers for Palestine which reads: Berghain & 'israel' Exploring the venue's deep, abiding links to the entity
ALT in 2024, Berghain deplatformed Arabian panther for supporting Palestinian liberation. This was not an abberation. As the following slides show, the club has provided overt, material support to 'israel' for many years. If you play at or attend Berghain, you are complicit.
ALT Boycott of Berghain: from March 2024 to now More and more artists are boycotting Berghain in response to Berghain’s silence on the genocide in Palestine and cancellation of artists in solidarity with Palestinian liberation Antifascist Music Alliance 25/11/2024
ALT Interview with Josey Rebelle When did you make the decision? Was that before or after the March call for boycott from DJs Against Apartheid and Ravers for Palestine? I was upset to hear about Berghain’s cancellation of Arabian Panther’s event and the way the club had chosen to handle the situation. When this story broke in January I had just agreed to play six dates at Berghain across 2024 and so I knew I needed to have an urgent discussion with the club. I sent the club an email to express my thoughts, indicating that I was considering leaving, and we agreed to have a phone call.
ALT I asked whether Berghain intended to make any public statement or gesture to call for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza, to signal any support for Gaza as it did with Ukraine, or to align itself with the demands of the Strike Germany movement. If the answer to these questions was no, I asked if Berghain intended to take any steps at all. While the tone of the subsequent phone call was respectful, it was clear to me that there was no remorse over the way this situation had been handled, and there was to be neither an apology nor any clarification on the club’s stance on Gaza. I was told that Berghain did not get involved in political matters. Again I pointed out that the club had been very vocal in its support of Ukraine, including setting up a dedicated page on its website, which proved that the club was absolutely able to speak up on these matters and was consciously choosing not to do the same for Gaza.
ALT Boycott of Berghain: from March 2024 to now More and more artists are boycotting Berghain in response to Berghain’s silence on the genocide in Palestine and cancellation of artists in solidarity with Palestinian liberation Antifascist Music Alliance 25/11/2024
ALT Interview with Josey Rebelle When did you make the decision? Was that before or after the March call for boycott from DJs Against Apartheid and Ravers for Palestine? I was upset to hear about Berghain’s cancellation of Arabian Panther’s event and the way the club had chosen to handle the situation. When this story broke in January I had just agreed to play six dates at Berghain across 2024 and so I knew I needed to have an urgent discussion with the club. I sent the club an email to express my thoughts, indicating that I was considering leaving, and we agreed to have a phone call.
ALT I asked whether Berghain intended to make any public statement or gesture to call for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza, to signal any support for Gaza as it did with Ukraine, or to align itself with the demands of the Strike Germany movement. If the answer to these questions was no, I asked if Berghain intended to take any steps at all. While the tone of the subsequent phone call was respectful, it was clear to me that there was no remorse over the way this situation had been handled, and there was to be neither an apology nor any clarification on the club’s stance on Gaza. I was told that Berghain did not get involved in political matters. Again I pointed out that the club had been very vocal in its support of Ukraine, including setting up a dedicated page on its website, which proved that the club was absolutely able to speak up on these matters and was consciously choosing not to do the same for Gaza.
ALT One of the parties that continues to host events at Berghain, despite the boycott, is REEF. Ravers for Palestine reached out to REEF organizers privately on October 11, 2024, asking them to withdraw. After private outreach was not successful, Ravers for Palestine made their appeal public on October 18, 2024, asking REEF to stand with their community and boycott Berghain. REEF had their party most recently on November 15, 2024. As the Antifascist Music Alliance we also reached out to artists who were on the lineup (pictured below), asking them to respect the boycott. We did not receive a response.
ALT We’ve also reported on CTM’s lack of courage and solidarity with the boycott in the Left Berlin previously. CTM festival continues to host parties at Berghain. Their most recent party was on October 30, 2024 and Berghain is still listed as the main venue for their 2025 festival. CTM and REEF are only two examples of parties/festivals claiming progressiveness while holding their events at Berghain. Some other examples that we noticed include Your Love, Love on the Rocks, and queer party weeeirdos. There is no queer liberation without Palestinian liberation. These parties and collectives refuse to stand with those in the nightlife community who are courageously and unapologetically protesting against over a year of escalating genocide in Palestine and Lebanon and repression in Germany.
ALT Interview with Ravers for Palestine You announced in March a call for a boycott of Berghain, together with DJs Against Apartheid. What can you tell us about the djs heeding this call? A broad and diverse range of DJs is now boycotting Berghain, ranging from experimental up-and-coming artists to former regulars at the club. One clear throughline is the collective withdrawal of international artists. Very few DJs from the UK and US are still playing there, for example. This is a tectonic shift. Even Berghain’s Reddit community has registered this: anxious threads with titles like ‘Why are so many well-known DJs no longer regularly being booked?’
ALT How has it been so far with support for the boycott? What have you seen? What would you like to say? Early on in the genocide, we weren’t sure if we had the numbers within rave culture to challenge the normalization of ‘Israel’, and the West’s wider attempts to co-opt us into their imperial status quo. A year on, it’s clear these doubts were unwarranted. While nightlife institutions have largely remained silent, and, in some cases, have even repressed pro-Palestinian voices, the community itself has risen to this anticolonial moment. From boycotts of entities complicit in the genocide, to autonomous actions, the surge in PACBI nightlife endorsements, and the militancy and sacrifice of so many individual artists and ravers, we’ve shown that our culture has deep and powerful reservoirs of resistance at its grassroots.
ALT an instagram post which reads: DAM SQUARE PROTEST 18:00 Wednesday November 13 AGAINST FASCISM AND GENOCIDE
ALT instagram post which reads: As Zionist bombs rain down intensively on Gaza Lebanon, Yemen, and Syria, Amsterdam tries to silence those who demand justice globally. We, the people, will not be complicit in ongoing genocides. Neither in Occupied Palestine, nor in Congo or Sudan, and we refuse to let the authorities suppress our voices against all interconnected struggles. Join multiple organizing groups at Dam Square this Wednesday November 13 at 6 PM to resist these genocidal warmongers and fight back against the attacks on our basic rights.
ALT *We understand that not everyone feels safe to join the demonstration right now, and that's the point- authorities want to control us through fear. But we will not be intimidated. If you can't make it to the action, take a stand from your home-hang a Palestinian flag or a white sheet from your window as a symbol of resistance.
ALT a screenshot of a video in which two Dutch riot police in full gear are hitting a woman wearing a black hijab, a kuffiya and a grey / green goat.
ALT an image of the hijabi from the previous picture who's face is blurred but is visible that she is bleeding from the forhead and someone is with a grey coat holding her.
