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Leading artists criticise Barbican’s collaboration with Israeli embassy for concert

Leading artists criticise Barbican’s collaboration with Israeli embassy for concert

Jerusalem Orchestra East & West’s performance ‘cynical attempt to re-brand apartheid as diversity’, claims letter by over 50 artistsMore than 50 artists, including the poet Benjamin Zephaniah and the Turner prize co-winner Tai Shani, have protested at the Barbican arts venue’s collaboration with the Israeli embassy in London in putting on a concert.Arguing that the Israeli government must be “held to account for its policies towards the Palestinian people”, the artists say the concert this weekend is “a cynical attempt to re-brand apartheid as diversity and military occupation as tolerance”.

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