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British DJ and Producer Ewan Pearson (photo: SHAREconference / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)
Techno music scene dives into the BDS debate
DJ and Producer Ewan Pearson: “Musicians are not ambassadors with carte blanche to go where we like as we’re spreading an implicit  message of love. Too damn easy.” Last March, following a gig he gave in a Tel Aviv club, JD Twitch of Optimo posted this Tweet: Such warm people in Israel. Great times! Thought…
By Noam Sheizaf May 29, 2011
Who is afraid of BDS?
This piece is co-written with Max Blumenthal The day after the American pop star Macy Gray announced controversial plans to perform in Tel Aviv in March, we sat down for a drink at Pua, a bar nestled in the heart of one of Jaffa’s most gentrified neighborhoods. When the waitress, a sociable 20-something resident of…
By Joseph Dana February 6, 2011
A letter to artists contemplating support for the BDS movement
The occupation has been around long enough for you to decide on whether or not to perform in Israel Dear artists worldwide, famous and less famous, I’m writing to you in light of Macy Gray’s decision to perform in Israel, despite pressure from BDS activists to cancel. I’m glad she asked her fans to express…
By Ami Kaufman January 20, 2011
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Macy Gray in Concert at the Leicester Square Theatre in London - July 13, 2010 Leicester Square Theatre (photo: starpulse.com/PR)
Despite pleas to boycott, Macy Gray will perform in TLV
Pop singer Macy Gray is booked for two gigs in Tel Aviv, but supporters of the Palestinian call to boycott, divest from and sanction Israel have asked her not to come in this letter published online. Ms. Gray, who performed in Tel Aviv last year, turned to her fans on Facebook for advice: should she…
By Lisa Goldman January 19, 2011
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