LONDON, Britain: Over one hundred leading writers and artists from around the world expressed their support for a cultural boycott of the Zionist regime.

"Don't visit, exhibit or perform in 'Israel'," said some 94 renowned authors, musicians, film makers and poets from Europe, North and South America, as well as Palestinians and Zionist settlers in 1948 occupied Palestine.

In a joint letter to the Guardian, they suggested that boycott of the Zionist regime may be the way to peace in the occupied territories.

"Ten Palestinians are killed for every Zionist's death; more than 200, many of them children, have been killed since the summer," the letter said.

"UN resolutions are flouted, human rights violated as Palestinian land is stolen, houses demolished and crops destroyed," it warned in calling on other writers and artists to back the campaign.

The call for a cultural boycott has already been endorsed internationally by university teachers in many European countries, by film-makers and architects, including in Britain.

The latest initiative was led by renowned British author John Berger, together with Britain's musicians Brian Eno and Leon Rosselson, film makers Sophie Fiennes and Elia Suleiman, Singer Reem Kelani and writers arund Hati Roy, Ahdaf Soueif, and Eduardo Galeano.