 | ELTON JOHN; WHY ISRAEL? desertpeace | February 9, 2010 at 9:40 am | Categories: Boycott Israel, Entertainment, Israel, Palestine | URL: http://wp.me/ |
British academics ask Elton John to read Goldstone
British Committee for Universities of Palestine send open letter to singer asking that he cancel summer concert in Israel, refer him to Goldstone Report. 'You're behaving as if playing in Israel is morally neutral,' they write
LONDON – "Political or not political, when you stand up on that stage in Tel Aviv, you line yourself up with a racist state," wrote a group of British academics in an open letter to Elton John on Monday. The group, the British Committee for Universities of Palestine, seek to convince the singer to cancel his upcoming performance in Israel this June.
"Dear Elton John: Like much of the world, we think you're a good bloke. You came out when it was difficult; you admitted your addictions were stronger than you were; you've poured money into AIDS research. Oh, and then there's the music – not bad at all.
"But we're struggling to understand why you're playing in Israel on June 17. You may say you're not a political person, but does an army dropping white phosphorus on a school building full of children demand a political response? Does walling a million and a half people up in a ghetto and then pounding that ghetto to rubble require a political response from us, or a human one?" they quipped.
"You're behaving as if playing in Israel is morally neutral – but how can it be? How can the cruelties Israel practices against the Palestinians – fundamentally because the Palestinians are there, on Palestinian land, and Israel wants them to go – be morally neutral?" claimed the authors of the letter.
"Okay, you turn up in Ramat Gan, and it gets to that 'Candle in the Wind' moment, and thousands of lighters flicker – but there won't be any Palestinians from the Occupied Territories swaying along with the Israelis – the army won't let them leave their ghettoes.
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