A big FU... Patti Smith, Julian Casablancas among 600 musicians to urge boycott of Israel

[Rustyeye77]

https://www.timesofisrael.com/patti-smith-julian-casablancas-among-600-musicians-to-urge-boycott-of-israel/

Patti Smith and Julian Casablancas of The Strokes are among more than 600 musicians who have signed a letter calling for artists to avoid playing concerts in Israel. “We call on you to join us with your name in refusing to perform at Israel’s complicit cultural institutions,” says the letter, which began circulating Thursday in media reports.

It claims Israel committed war crimes in its recent fighting with Hamas in the Gaza Strip and that the “Israeli government operates a settler-colonial project committed to the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian population.”

Roger Waters, the former frontman of Pink Floyd and a longtime leading activist in the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel, is among the signers, but it is unclear if he spearheaded the letter. Waters has convinced a number of musicians to sign similar letters in the past, but this appears to be the largest such group of mainstream artists calling for a boycott.

Other big-name musicians who signed include the band Rage Against the Machine, rap group Run the Jewels, Serj Tankian of System of a Down, and the DJ and drummer Questlove. Some Jewish artists signed as well, including Peter Silberman of The Antlers, an indie band.

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4500 missile bombs and run by a terrorist organization ....crickets
Good...don’t go.

[hlthe2b]

1. To claim this incident was as one-sided as you suggest is just appalling.

Enough said. (except Hamas is not the Palestinian people, any more than White Nationalist Trumplican terrorists are representative of the American people writ large --or the intensely corrupt Netanyahu and his Likudists represent all the Israeli people)

[PortTack]

2. Good! This cause is sooo loop sided. Bibi is a crook and drives a lot of this nonsense

Just like our crazies here in the states, Israelis need to look at who they are following over a cliff

[Marrah_Goodman]

3. Their choice.

The Israeli government is full of people just as bad as Hamas but with more deadly weapons that WE give them.

[hlthe2b]

4. You might want to be bit more open to examining both sides: "UN HRC Investigates Likud's War Crimes"

UN HRC Investigates Likud's War Crimes

Yesterday, the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) adopted a historic resolution establishing a standing Commission of Inquiry to address Israel's latest and ongoing violations against the Palestinian people on both sides of the Green Line while also addressing the root causes of Israel's settler colonialism and apartheid. This resolution was adopted during a Special Session requested by Pakistan, on behalf of the state members of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and other UN members and observers.

Following a call for action by civil society, more than 3000 individuals and organizations from over 77 countries signed a petition calling on UN member states to vote in favor of the resolution establishing an ongoing UN Commission of Inquiry into systemic violations targeting the Palestinian people on both sides of the Green Line. Individuals and organizations also wrote to their Ministries of Foreign Affairs and missions in Geneva to urge them to support the resolution.

During the debate, UN member states addressed Israel’s institutionalized regime of racial domination and oppression over the Palestinian people and the need to address the root causes. For the first time, a resolution adopted by the HRC on Palestine calls on third states to refrain from transferring arms when assessed that these arms would be used to commit serious violations of international law.

https://ifex.org/un-human-rights-council-to-investigate-israels-rights-violations-against-palestinians/