Elvis Costello and Lauryn Hill are among the high-profile artists who have cancelled shows following pressure from the movement. Radiohead are wrong to play in Israel. He chooses to stand with the oppressor.”The artists’ statements were published by Artists For Palestine UK, a lobby group that published its own statement. The Israeli government sees the boycott movement as a strategic threat and accuses it of antisemitism – a claim BDS denies. • An earlier version of the article incorrectly listed U2 and Bjork as among artists who had joined a cultural boycott.

Source: The Guardian November 22, 2017 00:45 UTC