{"id":40474,"date":"2017-12-25T06:00:38","date_gmt":"2017-12-25T12:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=40474"},"modified":"2017-12-25T06:03:47","modified_gmt":"2017-12-25T12:03:47","slug":"lorde-cancels-tel-aviv-concert-after-pro-palestinian-fans-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/lorde-cancels-tel-aviv-concert-after-pro-palestinian-fans-backlash\/","title":{"rendered":"Lorde cancels Tel Aviv concert after pro-Palestinian fans\u2019 backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1497952\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">(JTA) \u2014 Pop star Lorde has canceled a summer concert in Tel Aviv&nbsp;announced&nbsp;less than a week ago after pro-Palestinian fans in her native New Zealand criticized her.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_40476\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/lorde.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40476\" class=\"wp-image-40476 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/lorde-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"Lorde performing at the Glastonbury Festival in Glastonbury, England, June 23, 2017. (Ian Gavan\/Getty Images)\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/lorde-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/lorde-768x506.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/lorde.jpg 880w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/198;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40476\" class=\"wp-image-40476 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/lorde-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"Lorde performing at the Glastonbury Festival in Glastonbury, England, June 23, 2017. (Ian Gavan\/Getty Images)\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/lorde-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/lorde-768x506.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/lorde.jpg 880w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-40476\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lorde performing at the Glastonbury Festival in Glastonbury, England, June 23, 2017. (Ian Gavan\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Israeli concert organizers announced the cancellation Sunday night, according to local media, including the Hebrew-language&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ynet.co.il\/articles\/0,7340,L-5061278,00.html\">Ynet<\/a>, and said ticket sales would be refunded.<\/p>\n<p>Producer Eran Arieli in a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/eran.arielli\/posts\/10155472012697224?pnref=story\">post<\/a>&nbsp;on Facebook apologized to fans, and said that the 21-year-old performer would tweet \u201csometime\u201d about the circumstances of the cancellation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was naive to think an artist of her age could handle that pressure,\u201d he wrote in the post.<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cIt\u2019s important to me that the end of the day we will thank her for considering us and giving us the opportunity in the first place, and also apologize to her, she doesn\u2019t deserve all the shit she\u2019s been through in the last week since the announcement. The last thing she needs on her comeback tour is the army of globalist anti-Semites weighing down on her head.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also said: \u201cMy esteem for her has not been affected by this incident.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not the first cancellation we\u2019ve experienced and it won\u2019t be the last,\u201d he also wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Following her announcement of a Tel Aviv concert date in June on Monday, New Zealanders Nadia Abu-Shanab and Justine Sachs \u2014 the former Palestinian and the latter Jewish \u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thespinoff.co.nz\/politics\/21-12-2017\/dear-lorde-heres-why-were-urging-you-not-to-play-israel\/\">wrote<\/a>&nbsp;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<p>\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<p>In response, the 21-year-old singer said in a tweet she was \u201cconsidering all options. Thank u for educating me i am learning all the time too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Simon Wiesenthal Center in a statement condemned the singer\u2019s decision to cancel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a classic example of the world\u2019s singular obsession with one country, the State of Israel,\u201d said Rabbi Marvin Hier, founder and dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in the statement.&nbsp;\u201cThe fact that Lorde still intends to perform in Russia, and has no issues with that country\u2019s multiple human rights abuses in the Ukraine, is a clear example of the hypocrisy the international community applies to the Middle East\u2019s only democracy,\u201d he also said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis double standard smacks of anti-Semitism. &nbsp;Not performing in Israel will only embolden extremist groups like Hamas,&nbsp;Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad,\u201d&nbsp;Hier concluded.<\/p>\n<p>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 \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jta.org\/2017\/06\/02\/life-religion\/radiohead-singer-thom-yorke-shreds-critics-of-his-upcoming-israel-show\">offensive<\/a>\u201d and Cave said Waters subjects musicians to \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jta.org\/2017\/11\/20\/news-opinion\/israel-middle-east\/aussie-singer-nick-cave-bds-pressure-made-me-perform-in-israel\">public humiliation<\/a>\u201d over the issue.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>Lorde co-wrote her latest album \u201cMelodrama\u201d with Jewish producer Jack Antonoff, who&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jta.org\/2017\/08\/28\/arts-entertainment\/jack-antonoff-and-nev-schulman-wear-jewish-stars-at-the-mtv-video-music-awards\">wore a visible Jewish star<\/a>&nbsp;to the MTV Video Music Awards in August.<\/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=\"Lorde%20cancels%20Tel%20Aviv%20concert%20after%20pro-Palestinian%20fans%E2%80%99%20backlash\";<\/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":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,27,7137],"tags":[8781,8790,8795,8788,459,412],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40474"}],"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=40474"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40478,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40474\/revisions\/40478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}