{"id":44429,"date":"2018-08-23T09:26:05","date_gmt":"2018-08-23T15:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=44429"},"modified":"2018-08-23T09:26:05","modified_gmt":"2018-08-23T15:26:05","slug":"lana-del-rey-says-she-will-be-visiting-palestine-after-pushback-on-israel-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/lana-del-rey-says-she-will-be-visiting-palestine-after-pushback-on-israel-concert\/","title":{"rendered":"Lana Del Rey says she \u2018will be visiting Palestine\u2019 after pushback on Israel concert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JERUSALEM (JTA)&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;Singer Lana Del Rey said she \u201cwill be visiting Palestine\u201d in addition to a planned appearance in Israel following a public relations campaign by pro-Palestinian activists.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_44430\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/delrey.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-44430\" class=\"wp-image-44430 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/delrey-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/delrey-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/delrey-768x506.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/delrey.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-44430\" class=\"wp-image-44430 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/delrey-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/delrey-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/delrey-768x506.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/delrey.jpg 880w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-44430\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lana Del Rey performing at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, Feb. 16, 2018. (Ethan Miller\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Earlier this week the American performer announced that she would stick to her decision to perform in Israel in the face of calls for her to boycott the country.<\/p>\n<p>The singer will be&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jta.org\/2018\/08\/20\/arts-entertainment\/lana-del-rey-defends-decision-perform-israel-amid-call-boycott\">appearing<\/a>&nbsp;at the Meteor Festival in the northern kibbutz of Lehavot Habashan next month. Advocates of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement targeting Israel, known as BDS, have urged her to boycott the country in protest of its treatment of the Palestinians.<\/p>\n<p>But in a statement posted Sunday to Twitter, the singer said \u201cmusic is universal and should be used to bring us together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would like to remind you that performing in Tel Aviv is not a political statement or a commitment to the politics there just as singing here in California doesn\u2019t mean my views are in alignment w[ith] my current government\u2019s opinions or sometimes inhuman actions,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n<p>However, on Tuesday, Del Rey slightly modified her position, posting on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BmwTM2wgyKn\/?taken-by=lanadelrey\">Instagram<\/a>&nbsp;that her \u201cviews on democracy and oppression are aligned with most liberal views\u201d and that while she would still play in Israel, she understood the concerns \u201ctowards showing support to the Palestinians too. So I just wanted to let you know when I\u2019m in Israel I will be visiting Palestine too and I look forward to meeting both Palestinian and Israeli children and playing music for everyone. I want peace for both Israel and Palestine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a post on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/rogerwaters\/photos\/a.101083179935496\/1958613594182436\/?type=3&amp;theater\">Facebook<\/a>, Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters, a staunch BDS activist, had warned Del Rey that \u201cPalestine is a unique situation in that the BDS picket line exists at the request of Palestine civil society as a whole. To respect it as I, and many others do, is a political act of support for the Palestinian people in their struggle for basic human rights. To cross it, conversely, is a political act in support of the apartheid state that would deny them those basic human rights. Even if in your heart of hearts you believe yourself to be neutral.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Responding to Waters, Del Rey wrote that she had read his \u201cstatement about taking action even when you believe in neutrality\u201d and that she \u201ctotally understand[s] what you\u2019re saying and this is my action.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week the American performer announced that she would stick to her decision to perform in Israel in the face of calls for her to boycott the country.<\/p>\n<p>The singer will be&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jta.org\/2018\/08\/20\/arts-entertainment\/lana-del-rey-defends-decision-perform-israel-amid-call-boycott\">appearing<\/a>&nbsp;at the Meteor Festival in the northern kibbutz of Lehavot Habashan next month. Advocates of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement targeting Israel, known as BDS, have urged her to boycott the country in protest of its treatment of the Palestinians.<\/p>\n<p>But in a statement posted Sunday to Twitter, the singer said \u201cmusic is universal and should be used to bring us together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would like to remind you that performing in Tel Aviv is not a political statement or a commitment to the politics there just as singing here in California doesn\u2019t mean my views are in alignment w[ith] my current government\u2019s opinions or sometimes inhuman actions,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n<p>However, on Tuesday, Del Rey slightly modified her position, posting on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BmwTM2wgyKn\/?taken-by=lanadelrey\">Instagram<\/a>&nbsp;that her \u201cviews on democracy and oppression are aligned with most liberal views\u201d and that while she would still play in Israel, she understood the concerns \u201ctowards showing support to the Palestinians too. So I just wanted to let you know when I\u2019m in Israel I will be visiting Palestine too and I look forward to meeting both Palestinian and Israeli children and playing music for everyone. I want peace for both Israel and Palestine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a post on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/rogerwaters\/photos\/a.101083179935496\/1958613594182436\/?type=3&amp;theater\">Facebook<\/a>, Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters, a staunch BDS activist, had warned Del Rey that \u201cPalestine is a unique situation in that the BDS picket line exists at the request of Palestine civil society as a whole. To respect it as I, and many others do, is a political act of support for the Palestinian people in their struggle for basic human rights. To cross it, conversely, is a political act in support of the apartheid state that would deny them those basic human rights. Even if in your heart of hearts you believe yourself to be neutral.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Responding to Waters, Del Rey wrote that she had read his \u201cstatement about taking action even when you believe in neutrality\u201d and that she \u201ctotally understand[s] what you\u2019re saying and this is my action.\u201d<\/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=\"Lana%20Del%20Rey%20says%20she%20%E2%80%98will%20be%20visiting%20Palestine%E2%80%99%20after%20pushback%20on%20Israel%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":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7137],"tags":[496,8781,8790,8795,9547,8788,380,2406],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44429"}],"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=44429"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44431,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44429\/revisions\/44431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}