Following a campaign by BDS organizers, Elvis Costello has announced that he will be canceling his upcoming shows in Israel. It doesn't sound like it was an easy decision for him, and he has posted a thoughtful statement about the decision on his website:
Then there are occasions when merely having your name added to a concert schedule may be interpreted as a political act that resonates more than anything that might be sung and it may be assumed that one has no mind for the suffering of the innocent.
I must believe that the audience for the coming concerts would have contained many people who question the policies of their government on settlement and deplore conditions that visit intimidation, humiliation or much worse on Palestinian civilians in the name of national security.
Mondoweiss
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This year's Model!!! May the others learn from the master!
This has a special resonance in me. I loved everything Costello has done over the years. I still hold on all his unused LPs and cannot bring myself to get rid of them. Great news which brings a bit of comfort in the midst of the daily avalanche of depressing, discouraging ones..
<span>And what is Bono doing? Not that he wouldn't know what's taking place! </span>
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Brian Eno does!</span>
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<span>Stealing Gaza </span>
<span>By BRIAN ENO </span>
<span>I</span><span>t's a tragedy that the Israelis - a people who must understand better than almost anybody the horrors of oppression - are now acting as oppressors. As the great Jewish writer Primo Levi once remarked "Everybody has their Jews, and for the Israelis it's the Palestinians". By creating a middle Eastern version of the Warsaw ghetto they are recapitulating their own history as though they've forgotten it. And by trying to paint an equivalence between the Palestinians - with their homemade rockets and stone-throwing teenagers - and themselves - with one of the most sophisticated military machines in the world - they sacrifice all credibility.</span>
http://www.counterpunch.org/eno01022009.html</span>
It seems Bono actually did a little something. Here:
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Didn't U2 cancel an Israel appearance, albeit grudgingly?
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure Jemmy. Didn't hear of it at all. Any more about it ?
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