YouTube removed a video calling on Alicia Keys to cancel a concert in Tel Aviv.
Set to Keys’ popular song “This Girl is on Fire,” the video was
removed on Monday, according to the U.S. Campaign for the Academic and
Cultural Boycott of Israel.
The video, “Alicia Keys, Come Together with Your Sisters, Boycott
Apartheid,” was removed, a notification by YouTube said, due to a
copyright infringement claim by “Alicia Keys c/o Ziffren Brittenheim
LLP.”
It showed Palestinian performance and visual artist Rana Hamadeh
standing on an Israeli military vehicle waving a Palestinian flag.
“It is enough that we face physical and emotional violence and
restrictions on our daily lives. But now we are also being silenced on
the internet,” Hamadeh said in a statement distributed by the U.S.
Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel. “I think if
Alicia Keys understood the call to boycott, she would agree to honor
it.”
Keys affirmed her decision to play in Israel in an interview published last month in The New York Times. She has been under pressure to cancel the July 4 concert.
The appeal to Keys to boycott Israel came first from Alice Walker
in an open letter posted on the Pulitzer Prize-winning author’s
website. Calls also came from Roger Waters of Pink Floyd and numerous
pro-Palestinian organizations.
Thursday, 27 June 2013
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