# MPs urge Glasgow venue to cancel disputed Palestine arts festival

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/now-call-off-anti-semitic-arts-show-mps-demand/
- Published: 2026-11-05T19:11:22+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-05T19:28:23+00:00
- Original publisher: Daily Mail (publisher lean: Right)
- Original article: https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16269543/Now-call-anti-Semitic-arts-MPs-demand.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490
- Topics: Art, Culture, World

## Key points

- MPs and Jewish representatives want a Glasgow arts event cancelled.
- Arika has received £911,950 in Creative Scotland funding.
- Critics say the festival’s title echoes a threatening slogan.

## Summary

MPs and Jewish community representatives have called for a Glasgow arts event, From the Rivers to the Seas, to be cancelled, saying its title evokes a slogan many Jewish people hear as a call to eliminate Israel. The dispute raises questions about the use of public funding and whether the event’s wording makes Jewish residents feel unwelcome in the city’s cultural life.

The five-day Palestine-themed festival is due to take place next week at Tramway, a venue run by Glasgow Life. Its organiser, the not-for-profit group Arika, has received £911,950 through Creative Scotland’s three-year funding programme, which supports 262 cultural organisations. Creative Scotland said the funding supports organisations’ operations and creative programmes; Arika described the festival as an expression of solidarity with Palestinians amid what it called an ongoing genocide.

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