Sunday, April 11, 2010
Well, here's an important update to the story below concerning supposed threats received by Israeli-Arab singer Mira Awad, Israeli Arab Singer Receives Threats, Cancels London Show. Unfortunately, the Jerusalem Post has completely changed the linked story (note to JPost: please stop doing that). The new headline is: 'It was my choice to cancel concert'.
Yes, apparently Awad didn't need to be threatened in order to cancel a concert to celebrate her ostensible country's founding. The basic disinterest of Israel's Arabs to fully participate in the society of which they are a part, while accepting all the benefits, is certainly one of Israel's most serious long term problems.
Leave it to the Boycott people, in this case, Marcy "Captain Underpants" Newman, to disingenuously take "credit" for the change:
Just a short note to let everyone know that public pressure has forced Mira Awad, a Palestinian singer and citizen of Israel, to cancel her scheduled performance in the UK sponsored by the Zionist Federation to celebrate Israel's "independence."
Awad published a letter today in Al-Ittihad, the newspaper of the Israeli Communist Party, saying that she would "never" perform for Israel's "independence," not in London nor anywhere else.
A small victory, but every victory is worth celebrating!...
So did she bow to pressure after all? Her Facebook statement says that when she found out the date of the event, she canceled due to "complexities": some clarifications regarding the London concert.
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