Lorde Branded Bigot After Cancelled Concert
Share:
Lorde, of all people, has been branded a bigot after cancelling a concert in Israel. A full-page ad in the Washington Post is responsible.
The ad was published in the New Year’s Eve edition and was placed by rabbi Shmuley Boteach in the US. It accuses the 21-year-old star of joining ‘a global anti-Semitic boycott of Israel’. The ad features an image of the singer, superimposed against a picture of men running through war-torn scenes while carrying infants.
Lorde accused of anti-semitism in full page Washington Post ad as fallout from cancelled Israel concert continues https://t.co/Hc7IoCi1yT pic.twitter.com/G9WDQ4zLVX
— 1 NEWS (@1NewsNZ) January 1, 2018
The ad claims that the cancelled concert showed how a ‘growing prejudice against the Jewish state’ in New Zealand was ‘trickling down to its youth’.
This references the decision by New Zealand to vote in favor of a UN resolution calling for the US to withdraw its decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. 127 countries also voted in favour alongside New Zealand.
In December, when the decision was made, Lorde announced she would not be going ahead with a June show in Tel Aviv.
Lorde said in a statement:
“I pride myself on being an informed young citizen and I had done a lot of reading and sought a lot of opinions before deciding to book a show in Tel Aviv. But I’m not too proud to admit I didn’t make the right call on this one.”