{"id":23651,"date":"2015-05-05T22:41:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-06T04:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=23651"},"modified":"2015-05-08T02:42:28","modified_gmt":"2015-05-08T08:42:28","slug":"lauryn-hill-cancels-israel-performance-3-days-before-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/lauryn-hill-cancels-israel-performance-3-days-before-concert\/","title":{"rendered":"Lauryn Hill cancels Israel performance 3 days before concert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JERUSALEM (JTA) &#8212; American R&amp;B singer Lauryn Hill canceled a performance in Israel three days ahead of the scheduled concert.<\/p>\n<p>Hill, who was scheduled to perform in Rishon LeZion on Thursday, said in a statement posted late Monday on her Facebook page that she canceled because she was unable to schedule a concert on the trip in Palestinian-controlled Ramallah in the West Bank.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Setting up a performance in the Palestinian Territory, at the same time as our show in Israel, proved to be a challenge,&#8221; Hill wrote. &#8220;I&#8217;ve wanted very much to bring our live performance to this part of the world, but also to be a presence supporting justice and peace. It is very important to me that my presence or message not be misconstrued, or a source of alienation to either my Israeli or my Palestinian fans. For this reason, we have decided to cancel the upcoming performance in Israel, and seek a different strategy to bring my music to ALL of my fans in the region.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The post had nearly 16,000 likes some 14 hours after it was posted.<\/p>\n<p>Hill had come under fire in recent days from the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement calling on her to cancel her Israel concert.<\/p>\n<p>British rock star Robbie Williams performed in Israel just days ago despite pressure from BDS and former Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters, a BDS activist.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Lauryn%20Hill%20cancels%20Israel%20performance%203%20days%20before%20concert\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[8781,8790,8795,7007,8788,1215],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23651"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23652,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23651\/revisions\/23652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}