Alicia Keys has announced that, despite protests, she is going forward with her upcoming show in Israel. The New York Times reports:
Alicia Keys said on Friday that she is going forward with a July 4 performance in Tel Aviv that has drawn calls from other artists to cancel as part of a larger cultural boycott of Israel.
Ms. Keys, the R&B singer whose albums include “Girl on Fire,” is scheduled to perform at the Nokia Arena in Tel Aviv on July 4 as part of her first trip to Israel. But musicians like Roger Waters and writers like Alice Walker have publicly asked her not to go forward with these plans to protest Israel’s policies toward the Palestinians . . .
In a statement to The New York Times, Ms. Keys said on Friday: “I look forward to my first visit to Israel. Music is a universal language that is meant to unify audiences in peace and love, and that is the spirit of our show.”
Organizers are still collecting signatures on a petition asking Keys to cancel the performance. The petition reads:
We ask Alicia Keys to stand on the side of justice and cancel her gig in Tel Aviv, Israel. Alicia Keys is scheduled to play to a segregated audience in Israel on July 4, 2013 at Nokia Arena in Tel Aviv. This boycott is “inspired by the struggle of South Africans against apartheid and in the spirit of international solidarity, moral consistency and resistance to injustice and oppression.” Israel is a persistent violator of international law and has failed to respect fundamental human rights. Until Israel ends its occupation and oppression of the people of Palestine we ask you, as a person of conscience and a philanthropist, not to play in Israel. Alicia Keys, please join us now in the cultural boycott of Israel, and help stop entertaining apartheid.
to Alicia Keys with respect;
I wish you just follow the link below, and watch the video.
this video shows a group of Palestinian school girls, who were attacked by israeli settlers, while they are in a school trip inside the Occupied Palestinian Territories (West Bank), and see what was happened to them by the savage israeli settlers.
the question is what is the threat, or the harm could those girls represent?
according to the answer take your decision
many thanks
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Quote:
“I look forward to my first visit to Israel. Music is a universal language that is meant to unify audiences in peace and love..”
End of Quote.
Nonsense political cliche, also, very hard to unify people when palestinians are forbidden to even enter Israel.
One thought a black woman would have better judgment when it comes to apartheid.
Shameful Alicia keys, shameful!
I’m not even going to bother sharing my utter disgust at miss Alicia!
Just boycott her music and boycott ALL supporters and enablers of Apartheid israel. Advise others you know to do same.
No drama. No fuss. Just silent boycott.
On July 2, two days before her Tel Aviv gig, Alicia Keys is scheduled to perform in Istanbul, yet I don’t see any petitions calling on her to boycott Turkey.
Turkey, which has occupied and ethnically cleansed Northern Cyprus since 1974, which has conducted a decades-long , brutal and bloody repression of the Kurdish minority, which hasn’t even acknowledged responsibility for the Armenian genocide.
Another example of the hypocritical double standard.
I’m writing to Ms. Keys to encourage her not to give in to whatever pressure or threats she’s facing. TelAviv will welcome her (and all the other international artists coming this summer).
Keys: “I look forward to my first visit to Israel. Music is a universal language that is meant to unify audiences in peace and love, and that is the spirit of our show.”
What an astoundingly inconsistent statement. Fiercely ideological gloved in sanitised neutrality. Perhaps Keys in unaware of the fable of the wolf is sheep’s clothing. The hallowed social category called artists should live up to their words before speaking. Just because you can sing or speak doesn’t make you an expert on morality. Stop destroying concepts like “universal language”.