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The BDS movement started in 2005, after a call issued by Palestinian civil society groups for “people of conscience” around the world to help end Israel’s abuses against Palestinians, by cutting off cultural, academic, and economic ties with the state. Usual bullying hasbara being hurled at for the crime of making a moral choice to oppose oppression.All rt thinking p'ple stand w her

“The fact that she cancelled regardless of all this is a testament to her bravery and courage, and I have so much more respect than I already had for Lorde.”īut according to Sachs, Lorde’s decision has more than just personal significance and should be seen as a major milestone for the BDS movement.

“We were unsure about whether she would be able to cancel the show, even if she wanted to. The fact that she cancelled regardless of all this is a testament to her bravery and courage, and I have so much more respect than I already had for Lorde.īy Justine Sachs, co-author of letter to Lorde “ knew her to be a conscious and engaged person who cares about social justice so we thought she would be sympathetic to the cause,” she said. The 23-year-old graduate student said she and Nadia Abu-Shanab, the Palestinian activist she wrote the letter with, were both fans of Lorde but were unsure whether she would pull out of the show because of possible contractual obligations. Justine Sachs, a Jewish New Zealander, who co-wrote the letter to Lorde, told Al Jazeera she was “overjoyed and surprised” when she found out the artist had listened to her request not to play in Israel. On his Twitter account, music journalist Eric Boehlert described the advert as “pathetic”, adding: “Lorde doesn’t have to perform anywhere she doesn’t want to, (the) accusations are (an) ugly attempt at bullying.” The advert was widely condemned for its tone, which many construed as “bullying”. On New Year’s Eve, the 21-year-old was the subject of a full-page advert taken out by a pro-Israel advocacy group in the Washington Post newspaper, which accused her of being a “bigot” who had chosen to align herself with “those committed to Israel’s fiscal destruction”.