February 9, 2010 at 9:40 am ( in Boycott Israel” rel=”category tag”>Boycott Israel, in Entertainment” rel=”category tag”>Entertainment, Israel” rel=”category tag”>Israel, Palestine” rel=”category tag”>Palestine)
British academics ask Elton John to read Goldstone
British
Committee for Universities of Palestine send open letter to singer
asking that he cancel summer concert in Israel, refer him to Goldstone
Report. ‘You’re behaving as if playing in Israel is morally neutral,’
they write
LONDON – ”Political or not political, when you stand up on
that stage in Tel Aviv, you line yourself up with a racist state,”
wrote a group of British academics in an open letter to Elton John on
Monday. The group, the British Committee for Universities of Palestine,
seek to convince the singer to cancel his upcoming performance in
Israel this June.
“Dear Elton >>>