Singer-songwriter and harmonica owner Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman) will perform at Israel’s Ramat Gan Stadium in June.
The 69-year old folk legend seems to be impervious to Israel’s war crime record and the growing international movement calling for artists to boycott the rogue state.
Other international performers such as Elvis Costello, the Pixies and Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters cancelled scheduled performances in Israel to protest the government’s treatment of the Palestinians.
Let us hope that Zimmerman will change his mind. However, for the time being you can enjoy yourself watching Zimmerman’s take on Hava Nagila. It seems as if the poor guy doesn’t manage to hit a single note.
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Gilad Atzmon is an Israeli-born British jazz saxophonist, novelist, political activist and writer.
Atzmon’s album Exile was BBC jazz album of the year in 2003. Playing over 100 dates a year,[4] he has been called “surely the hardest-gigging man in British jazz.” His albums, of which he has recorded nine to date, often explore the music of the Middle East and political themes. He has described himself as a “devoted political artist.” He supports the Palestinian right of return and the one-state solution in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
His criticisms of Zionism, Jewish identity, and Judaism, as well as his controversial views on The Holocaust and Jewish history have led to allegations of antisemitism from both Zionists and anti-Zionists. A profile in The Guardian in 2009 which described Atzmon as “one of London’s finest saxophonists” stated: “It is Atzmon’s blunt anti-Zionism rather than his music that has given him an international profile, particularly in the Arab world, where his essays are widely read.”
His new book The Wandering Who? is now availble at Amazon.com
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