Daily Wire
"Unlike New Zealand singer Lorde, who capitulated to pressure from the anti-Israel BDS movement and cancelled her concert scheduled for Tel Aviv, living legend and former Beatle, Sir Ringo Starr, defied the BDS movement and announced the tour with his band will include two concerts in Tel Aviv’s Menorah Mivtahim Arena on June 23 and 24.
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"Starr’s determination to visit Israel despite the BDS movement’s efforts to stop performers from playing there is reminiscent of Radiohead singer Thom Yorke, who blasted vehemently anti-Israel Pink Floyd bassist Roger Waters, after Waters joined BDS activists trying to pressure Yorke into canceling his Israel concert.
"Yorke snapped, “If you want me to be honest, yeah, it's really upsetting that artists I respect think we are not capable of making a moral decision ourselves after all these years. They talk down to us and I just find it mind-boggling that they think they have the right to do that. It's extraordinary.”
"Starr’s former bandmate in the Beatles, Paul McCartney, ignored death threats when he played before 400,000 people in Tel Aviv in 2008."
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