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Follow Us on TwitterHours before boarding plane for Tel Aviv, Salif Keita joins the cultural boycott of Israel 23Aug13 August 23, 2013
Refrain Playing Israel - 22 August 2013
Israeli Ynet reported that the esteemed musician Salif Keita has joined the cultural boycott of Israel. Just hours before he was due to board a plane for Israel he decided “to meet the demands of the cultural boycott of Israel.”
BDS France, BDS South Africa, DPAI and activists from around the world had asked Keita to refrain from playing in Israel and join the cultural boycott.
Keita is the first artist to cancel a planned show in the apartheid state following a major letter from Pink Floyd star Roger Waters asking:
“I write to you now, my brothers and sisters in the family of Rock and Roll, to ask you to join with me, and thousands of other artists around the world, to declare a cultural boycott on Israel,”
Waters wrote in an open letter posted to his Facebook page and the Electronic Intifada.
http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-4420958,00.html
https://www.facebook.com/Salif.Keita.Reject.Apartheid.Israel
DPAI is found on facebook at https://www.facebook.com/dontplayapartheidisrael
Israeli musician/promoter claiming on Monday that Keita would still play for the Jerusalem Festival of Sacred Music at https://www.facebook.com/gil.r.shama/posts/10151541150485756
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