Posted on 12/26/2017 5:00:12 PM PST by Kaslin
Grammy-winning singer Lorde has succumbed to peer pressure and canceled a concert in Israel as a way to cater to the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement, a campaign created as a way to punish Israel for its "oppression" of Palestinians, according to its founders. The movement is so extreme that even liberal governors have condemned it. In June 2016, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed an executive order deeming that state agencies can strip funding from any company that is privy to the BDS movement.
Still, Jewish activist Justine Sachs and Palestinian activist Nadia Abu-Shanab wanted to get Lorde's attention and penned a letter to the artist urging her to comply with the BDS campaign. In their letter, they condemned President Trump's decision to move the U.S. embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, arguing it was a slap in the face to Palestinians. The two young women also accused Israel of operating on a system of apartheid.
Today, millions of people stand opposed to the Israeli government’s policies of oppression, ethnic cleansing, human rights violations, occupation and apartheid. As part of this struggle, we believe that an economic, intellectual and artistic boycott is an effective way of speaking out against these crimes. This worked very effectively against apartheid in South Africa, and we hope it can work again.
Having seen the letter, Lorde complied with their request.
"Noted!" she wrote on Twitter. "Been speaking w many people about this and considering all options. Thank u for educating me I am learning all the time too."
Some critics couldn't help noting a glaring hypocrisy on Lorde's concert schedule.
Lorde cancels her concert in Israel, the only democracy in the Middle East, over human rights concerns. But she goes for a gig to Russia, a brutal dictatorship complicit in the mass murder in Syria.
That's when pro-human rights means just anti-Israel. #BDSFail— Julie Lenarz (@MsJulieLenarz) December 26, 2017
Lordy be, I am another one of those who has never heard this Lorde gal until now.
I only heard of lords when reading the two other threads today.
The rumour is that if you fart into the Shazam app, it will show as a Lorde song.
I think the good people of Israel have had a lucky escape here
I’m not sure what your purpose is?
Neither have I.
Israel really NEEDS to import a little slutty looking thing like this? I say Israel is much better off without this thing. Let her go kiss some more BDS butt, as she is obviously incapable of independent critical thinking, like “Is Israel actual guilty of what BDS claims?”.
Another one goes on record as siding with the Satan worshipers. It’s awesome how they keep identifying themselves like this.
At lest its not Wing!
Another NZ singing sensation.
I remember seeing Benjamin Netanyahu speaking before the UN General Assembly a couple of years ago, where he called them out directly to their faces, saying (paraphrasing): "The UN has issued 23 human rights violations for human rights violations against women this year. 21, TWENTY-ONE, of those were against Israel, where we have women in the military, doctors, lawyers, etc." It was a very powerful speech that I wish people on the left with any brains "left" would hear.
I have nothing against Lorde as a singer, but she is quite obviously being BULLIED and is too naïve to realize it.
“too naïve to realize it.”
Or stupid!
BDS is the Aryan Nation + $100 million in Turkish cash
#MohammedWasAJew
“I’m not sure what your purpose is?”
Keep my wife happy.
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