December 31, 2010
is the Mexican-American guitarist Carlos Santana which opened in February 2010 this year's Cultural Boycott of Apartheid Israel. He said: "What they are doing is not constructive and God himself would never have traveled to Israel in such a situation."
That same month, 500 artists from Montreal in Canada, including Lhasa de Sela, Gilles Vigneault, Richard Desjardins and members of Bran Van 3000 or Silver Mt Zion "pledge to fight against apartheid (Israel) and to encourage other artists and cultural producers throughout the country and around the world to join this international movement. "
In April, the American singer Gil Scott-Heron , which already boycotted South Africa in the 70s, says with great moral integrity that he would play in Israel where everyone is welcome. Even today, millions of Palestinian refugees are not welcome in a country that is theirs, and yet they were driven there more than sixty years.
His compatriot Devendra Banhart explains, too, the reasons for its withdrawal in June 2010: "We tried to explain that we had to share a human message, and not political, but it seems that we are used to advocate positions that are not ours "
The same month, the Irish singer Tommy Sands cancels his concert in Israel against the prohibitions which it is made to interpret Peace on the shore of Gaza , written in tribute to Rachel Corrie, "the boat Irish Freedom Flotilla who went to Gaza.
Also in June, following the deadly attack against the flotilla of Liberty, it was the turn of the singer Elvis Costello English cancel his trip, saying: "There are times when the mere fact of have his name added to a list of concerts can be interpreted as a political act. " Following Elvis Costello three groups in June nullify their participation in a festival in Israel: English Klaxons and Gorillaz and the U.S. Pixies.
In July, Annie Lennox , English singer and longtime critic of Israeli policy of brutal occupation, confirmed in the press: "I have no desire to go to Israel, and I think I n ''ll never have a reason to go there. It would be too ambiguous, I think, because people get carried away and distort what you say. "
In August 2010, 150 Irish artists, but also two electronic groups British Leftfield and Faithless, join the boycotters. Maxi Jazz, Faithless rapper, in his songs denouncing racism and the war in Iraq, explained: "While human beings are denied not only their rights but also their needs and those of their children and adults parents, I deeply feel that I should not send signals, even implicit, that this is normal or OK. "
In September, Robert Del Naja, the leader of the British group Massive Attack is justified: "I can not play in Israel while the Palestinians did not enjoy the same rights as Israelis. " A hundred artists Norwegian follow suit and call for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of the Israeli state.
Finally, in November 2010, Tindersticks, another British group, who realizes he can not play for apartheid: "We thought that the music we do is beyond considerations policies. In recent weeks, the pressure exerted on us by people and organizations close to us, showed us that this is not the case. It is difficult to challenge a growing movement of which we approve objectives, even if we're not entirely convinced by their methods. "
The cultural boycott of apartheid Israel, a growing movement in 2010 in the USA and UK. In 2011, he will run in France? A campaign is underway to ask Vanessa Paradis and Juan Carlos Caceres cancel their planned trips to Israel in early 2011 ...
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Happy New Year and happy birthday to Bob Sine!
A few late Christmas presents: A song
gift Leon Ware :
http://www.mediafire.com/?2yo5qlxkzb6oknw
And one playlist at a time Daptone :
http://dunhamrecords.com/audio/santasecret.mp3
