\r\n\tAmerican rock icon Thurston Moore is the latest musician to offer his explicit support to the anti-Israeli BDS movement.
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\r\n\tAfter cancelling a Tel Aviv concert scheduled for April 27, the former Sonic Youth frontman confirmed that the cancelation was in protest at Israel's atrocities against the Palestinians.
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\r\n\t"It was with serious deliberation that I eventually arrived at the personal conclusion that to perform with my band in Israel was in direct conflict to my values," Moore told music website The Quietus.
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\r\n\t"With the realization that a cultural and academic boycott is central to its purpose in exposing a reality of brutal human rights violations – including those accompanying Israel's discriminatory laws and occupation of the West Bank – I felt the need, with humility, to cancel the engagement."<\/p>\r\n
\r\n\tLast month, Lauryn Hill confirmed she canceled her March 7 concert in Rishon Letzion because she could not organize a parallel performance in Ramallah, and did not want her appearance only before Israelis to be a "source of alienation" to her fans.
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\r\n\tIn late April, Pink Floyd multiinstrumentalist Roger Waters - arguably the most outspoken musician in favor of the BDS movement - slammed British pop start Robbie Williams for performing in Israel.
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\r\n\tIn February, over 100 British artists, including Waters and fellow musician Brian Eno, announced a cultural boycott of Israel, along with more than 600 other artists who also signed up to the initiative.<\/p>","content_source":null,"content_url":null,"content_columns":"0","content_date_start":"2015-06-27 14:31:15","content_date_finish":"2015-06-27 14:31:15","content_date_register":"2015-06-27 14:31:15","content_date_last_edit":"0000-00-00 00:00:00","content_show_img":"1","content_show_details":"1","content_show_related_img":"1","content_show_slider":"1","content_show_title_slider":"1","content_comment":"0","content_score":"0","content_recorded":"0","content_confirmed":"1","content_status":"1","content_kind":"0","old_id":"125137","tag_id":null,"tag_word":null,"tag_service":null,"tag_total":null,"tag_soundex":null,"attach_token":"3180058912","attach_date_register":"2015-06-27 14:31:20","attach_id":"128441","attach_file_ext":"jpg","attach_file_header":"image\/jpeg","attach_img_type":"2","attach_img_width":"640","attach_img_height":"370","attach_file_media":"1","attach_show_watermark":"0","score_average":null,"score_count":null,"score_date_last":null,"visit_count":"153","visit_date_last":"2025-05-10 22:17:16","attach_title":"Indie rock icon backs anti-Israeli BDS","node_title":"news","ot_node_left_right":"[{\"node_id\":122, \"left\":2, \"right\":53}]"}]]