Elvis Costello boycotts Israel
May. 20th, 2010 12:17 am![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png)
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http://www.elviscostello.com/news/it-is-after-considerable-contemplation/44
He's posted on his blog that he has decided to cancel all his tour dates there, and that playing his 2 previously scheduled concert appearances in Israel will be perceived as his support of "oppression in the name of liberation" and being complicit in "the suffering of the innocents", meaning the Palestinians.
Liberal anti-Semites are really transparent, aren't they?
He's posted on his blog that he has decided to cancel all his tour dates there, and that playing his 2 previously scheduled concert appearances in Israel will be perceived as his support of "oppression in the name of liberation" and being complicit in "the suffering of the innocents", meaning the Palestinians.
Liberal anti-Semites are really transparent, aren't they?
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Date: 2010-05-20 04:33 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2010-05-20 04:38 am (UTC)http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/05/waking_up_to_urbane_antisemiti.html
Have these tools announced tour cancellations in China, one of the most notorious abusers of human rights? Nope. Do they care about the lack of freedom in Cuba or Venezuela? *Chirping crickets.* How about that godawful regime in North Korea? *Shrug.* For that matter they haven't said a damn thing about terrorism on the part of Palestinians or radical Islam. Only the Jewish state gets singled out and accused of things that aren't even true or accurate.
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Date: 2010-05-20 04:51 am (UTC)And you're absolutely right. The next time someone starts posturing about the evils of Israel, I'm going to start bringing up Iran, China, Venezueal, North Korea and 2397423 other places and watch the squirming commence.
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Date: 2010-05-20 04:53 am (UTC)We must confront those who pervert history with incontrovertible evidence of their falsehoods.
The problem is that regardless of the topic at hand, evidence and facts don't seem to make much difference in people's view of things. After all, we've all been brainwashed with the nonsense that, "We all have our own truth."
So if someone chooses to believe that Israel is always the aggressor and the Palestinians are the helpless, innocent victims, then nothing will sway them from that - even if it costs them their own lives, à la Rachel Corrie.
What's true for you is true for you, and what's true for me is true for me.
It's insanity.
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Date: 2010-05-20 07:00 am (UTC)Also, thank you for posting that article. It's very chilling how people are ready and willing to jump on this anti-Semitic bandwagon and not even realize it.
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Date: 2010-05-20 06:50 am (UTC)If Diana Krall (Elvis Costello's wife) comes out with anything stupid, my heart will break in two. I think I love her music even more.
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Date: 2010-05-21 11:04 pm (UTC)The logical extension is that no Western band should ever play in the Middle East, or vice-versa. Which makes total sense.