Turkish movie website Sinefesto reported that over 600 fellow artists in the U.K. announced a cultural boycott of Israel in a letter last week. A number of renowned musicians, actors, screenwriters and authors including Jewish-descendant Mike Leigh, Ken Loach and Samuel West signed the letter that appeared in the British Guardian newspaper. Artists also show their support for the Palestinian struggle for freedom via Twitter at twitter.com/Artists4PalestineUK and Facebook at facebook.com/ArtistsforPalestineUK. This is the letter: "Along with more than 600 other fellow artists, we are announcing today that we will not engage in business-as-usual cultural relations with Israel. We will accept neither professional invitations to Israel, nor funding, from any institutions linked to its government. Since the summer war on Gaza, Palestinians have enjoyed no respite from Israel's unrelenting attack on their land, their livelihood, their right to political existence. '2014,' says the Israeli human rights organization B'Tselem, was 'one of the cruelest and deadliest in the history of the occupation.' The Palestinian catastrophe goes on. Israel's wars are fought on the cultural front too. Its army targets Palestinian cultural institutions for attack, and prevents the free movement of cultural workers. Its own theatre companies perform to settler audiences in the West Bank - and those same companies tour the globe as cultural diplomats, in support of 'Brand Israel.' During South African apartheid, musicians announced they weren't going to 'play Sun City.' Now we are saying, in Tel Aviv, Netanya, Ashkelon or Ariel, we won't play music, accept awards, attend exhibitions, festivals or conferences, run master classes or workshops, until Israel respects international law and ends its colonial oppression of the Palestinians." The full list of supporters and more information is available on the website "artistsforpalestine.org.uk."