Lauryn Hill 'May Cancel Israel Show'
R&B, soul and hip hop singer-songwriter Lauren Hill may cancel her planned show in Israel, scheduled for May 7 at Rishon Letzion.
Producers of the show in Israel told Walla! News that they have received messages in recent days signalling that Hill wants to cancel the performance, and that they are making “massive efforts” to avert this.
Hill is under pressure from the anti-Israel “BDS” movement that compares Israel to apartheid-era South Africa.
“The presence of artists is routinely used by Israel to legitimize its policies and maintain its reputation as a normal member of the international community,” the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation said in an action alert urging people to press Hill to boycott Israel.
Members of the anti-Israel movement prepared a version of the song “Killing Me Softly with His Song,” a 1971 song to which Hill recorded a successful cover version.
Hill performed in Israel in 2007.
British pop sensation Robbie Williams performed exuberantly before tens of thousands of Israeli fans Saturday night at Yarkon Park in Tel Aviv, ignoring fellow British musician, Roger Waters, who noted William’s role as UNICEF’s UK ambassador and ardent support of its Children in Danger campaign, and asserted the pop star was turning his back on Gazan children killed during last summer’s Operation Protective Edge.
“Dear Robbie, playing this concert on May 2 would be giving your tacit support to the deaths of over 500 Palestinian children last summer in Gaza,” Waters wrote.
Source: www.israelnationalnews.com