A letter to Lorde led to the cancellation of a concert in Israel and its writers being fined NZ$18,000 by the Israeli government.
Responding to the civil lawsuit, Nadia Abu-Shanab and Justine Sachs said they "won't be silenced" in a piece published in The Guardian.
In a letter published on The Spinoff last year, the pair urged the singer to cancel her Tel Aviv concert, citing brutality from Israel and the country's occupation of contested land as reasons she shouldn't play there.
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An Israeli law allows civil suits to be carried out against anyone encouraging a boycott of the country, and some Israeli teenagers said the cancelled Lorde concert caused "damage to their good name as Israelis and Jews".
Ms Abu-Shanab and Ms Sachs said they received many offers of financial help in response to the court order, and raised over NZ$40,000 through a crowd funding campaign for mental health groups in Gaza.
They said the fine was intended to "scare us into submission and silence, to undermine the moral integrity and dignity of individuals and groups affected."
"It will not work on the two of us, a preschool teacher and a student tucked away in the farthest reaches of the South Pacific," said the pair in the Guardian article.
"The pursuit of Palestinian dignity requires our full attention. There is much work to be done."
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