{"id":40372,"date":"2017-12-22T16:37:58","date_gmt":"2017-12-22T22:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=40372"},"modified":"2017-12-22T16:37:58","modified_gmt":"2017-12-22T22:37:58","slug":"lorde-thanks-pro-palestinian-fans-who-are-urging-her-to-cancel-israel-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/lorde-thanks-pro-palestinian-fans-who-are-urging-her-to-cancel-israel-concert\/","title":{"rendered":"Lorde thanks pro-Palestinian fans who are urging her to cancel Israel concert"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a>(JTA) \u2014 Pop star Lorde is considering canceling her upcoming concert in Tel Aviv after pro-Palestinian fans in her native New Zealand criticized her.<\/div>\n
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New Zealanders Nadia Abu-Shanab and Justine Sachs \u2014 the former Palestinian and the latter Jewish \u2014 wrote<\/a> an open letter on Thursday on the website The Spinoff saying that Lorde\u2019s scheduled performance in Israel \u201csends the wrong message.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cPlaying in Tel Aviv will be seen as giving support to the policies of the Israeli government, even if you make no comment on the political situation,\u201d they wrote.<\/p>\n

In response, the 21-year-old singer said she is now \u201cconsidering all options.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jewish New Zealand film and TV writer Dane Giraud wrote a subsequent essay<\/a> on The Spinoff, arguing that the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel damages the peace process.<\/p>\n

\u201c[Abu-Shanab and Sachs] assert that the situation in the Middle East is \u2018actually quite straightforward.\u2019 But that is to reduce complexity to a placard, to skate over a studied consideration of a long and turbulent history,\u201d Giraud wrote. \u201cThat leads to the reductive idea that \u2018exclusion\u2019 is the answer \u2013 the collective punishment of Israelis, 1.5 million Arabs included, through campaigns that seek to deny them participation in the world community.\u201d<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, former Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters clashed with Thom Yorke, the singer of the British band Radiohead, and Australian rocker Nick Cave over their performances in Israel. Waters, a leading proponent of the BDS movement, urged Yorke and Cave to cancel their concerts in Israel. Both refused \u2014 Yorke called the BDS campaign \u201coffensive<\/a>\u201d and Cave said Waters subjects musicians to \u201cpublic humiliation<\/a>\u201d over the issue.<\/p>\n

Several popular musicians, such as Elvis Costello and Lauryn Hill, have cancelled past concerts in Israel over the government\u2019s policies towards the Palestinians.<\/p>\n

Lorde co-wrote her latest album \u201cMelodrama\u201d with Jewish producer Jack Antonoff, who wore a visible Jewish star<\/a> to the MTV Video Music Awards in August.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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