[ May 5, 2024 ]
Another pathetic coward. She said she wouldn’t cave, and would stay strong — until she didn’t. I had a Geller Report article in queue praising Lana Del Rey for having common decency, a spine, in planning to give a concert in Israel. Even the courage to make this small gesture is rare among the dogmatic, totalitarian herd in the entertainment biz. It is a good thing that I had not published that article, because before I had a chance to do so, Lana Del Ray caved to the forces of evil. This is how a Shoah happens: “good” people go along, succumb to pressure from those who tell her that if they don’t, they’ll be called all sorts of names and ostracized. And so another moral coward is revealed.
“Lana Del Rey cancels Israel concert,” by Elad Benari, Israel National News, August 31, 2018 (thanks to Mark):
American singer and songwriter Lana Del Rey on Friday announced she would be postponing a planned concert in Israel, following calls on her not to perform in the Jewish state.
Story continues below advertisementDel Rey had been scheduled to perform in Israel as part of the Meteor Festival which will take place at Kibbutz Lehavot Habashan, outside of Tiberias in the upper Galilee, from September 6 through 8.
On Friday, however, she announced, “It’s important to me to perform in both Palestine and Israel and treat all my fans equally. Unfortunately it hasn’t been possible to line up both visits with such short notice and therefore I’m postponing my appearance at the Meteor Festival until a time when I can schedule visits for both my Israeli and Palestinian fans, as well as hopefully other countries in the region.”
The announcement comes after Del Rey had previously assured fans she would not be cancelling her planned appearance.
“I would like to remind you that performing in Tel Aviv is not a political statement or a commitment to the politics there just as singing here in California doesn’t mean my views are in alignment with my current government’s opinions or sometimes inhuman actions,” she said earlier this month.
Following that announcement, former Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters, an active supporter of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement who pressures artists not to perform in Israel, responded to Del Rey on Facebook.
Waters decried Israel as an “apartheid state”, and said a visit to Israel is inherently ‘a political act”.
Hours later, Del Rey responded to Waters via Instagram, reiterating that she would not cancel her show, while adding that she “understand[s] the concern” regarding Palestinian Authority residents.
The singer vowed to visit the Palestinian Authority, and meet with both Israeli and Arab children….
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31 Comments
5 years ago
who you Lana Del Rey?
5 years ago
Reply to
Halal Bacon
Never heard of it. Sounds like some dreaded tropical disease. Or, is it a new type of STD?
5 years ago
Wow…and to think I kind of liked her music. This is hugely disappointing. Do all celebrities have no fortitude, no will of their own?
5 years ago
Reply to
R. Arandas
The majority of celebrities are not smart people.
Most celebrities are shallow narcissists that is why they are drawn to showbusiness in the first place. They live for the camera.
5 years ago
Reply to
R. Arandas
Another delusional celebrity. Why even invite them to Israel? She wants to perform in Palestine? How about gang raped there?
5 years ago
I am not a fan. I WILL BOYCOTT HER MUSIC!
5 years ago
I have not heard of any of them boycotting South Africa.
5 years ago
Reply to
Crystal Waters
Look at China’s treatment of her precious Muslim friends there:
Will she stand up for “human rights” and boycott China? No, of course not since China is not Jewish!
5 years ago
Reply to
caliroxanne
Most leftists are pro Islam despite it’s glaring opposition to the leftist’s platform.
The leftist elite’s increased antisemitism directly correlates with the increase of rich Islamic nation’s donations to their coffers.
Islam actually supports slavery.
Libya, a majority Muslim nation, sells black people on auction blocks in present day and yet millions of blacks flock to Islam never knowing Muhammad’s views on black slaves as recorded in the “Holy Books” of Islam.
THE BOTTOM LINE is that the leftist elite only care about the money and the power they believe GLOBALISM will bring them. Their alliance with China to weaken American industry, their ridicule of patriotism, support of illegal aliens, and the constant race baiting are all means to that end, as everyone knows, “A DIVIDED NATION CANNOT STAND.”
5 years ago
Memo to former Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters:
The Islamic ideology which you do not criticise has this example of “Commanding the Right and Forbidding the Wrong”:
“breaking musical instruments”
Manual of Islamic Law, “Reliance of the Traveller”, q5.6
5 years ago
Reply to
Michael Copeland
Agree while Left/Libs welcome jihadis and run around like cowards after they start committing gang rapes, assaults.
Here’s one such woman from Germany who was brutally murdered https://tinyurl.com/yad8pdug
5 years ago
She caved because some as**ole on FB told her that by performing in Israel, it was a political act? Really? How weak to be intimidated by some one through a keyboard. But, she promised to grace arab and Israeli children with her presence. PUKE! It’s best she not show up to ‘visit the children’ as that may be interpreted as a “political act.”
5 years ago
Back in Roger Waters’ day, if someone his current age told someone her current age what they should or shouldn’t do, especially in the business they’re both in, they would have been told where to go.
5 years ago
No idea who she is?? What is a “Shoah?”
5 years ago
The BDS has had a lot of success recently… Many artists have cancelled their shows in Israel. I don’t remember so many cancellations in such a short period of time.
5 years ago
Lot of people succumbing to leftist pressure because they are unsure what morality is having never been taught correct Christianity.
Only that we came from eviloution by some book called the – The Origin of the Specious.
Look at that Negro pastor supposedly groping Ariana. I looked at that photograph. He does not at all look like he is groping her and owed NOBODY an apology. But he too, succumbed to the phony leftist.
5 years ago
Reply to
Alleged-Comment
I saw that picture too. It didn’t look like a grope to me.
I felt quite sorry for him, with all the #metoo-ers no doubt calling for him to be burnt at the stake.
5 years ago
Reply to
evangeline golding
However, a video does show him groping her. If the video is true then he did grope her and massage her breast. Saw it myself, so I have to retract what I said about the Negro pastor.
5 years ago
Reply to
Alleged-Comment
Fair enough. I only saw the picture, and he didn’t look like he was doing anything inappropriate.
But if there’s a video showing him groping her, then he deserves all he gets.
5 years ago
Why does she have to play for the Palestinians? Why not go to Israel and then when she can go again to perform for the Palestinians. She is despicable. nothing less.
5 years ago
Just another left wing socialist singing puppet being controlled by the left. No change there in the music industry. God help us.
5 years ago
Reply to
Clem Jackson
…the fact that you recognize what is happening and understand it means that God is already helping us. The low -information crowd are the ones needing help…
5 years ago
Spineless and stupid.
5 years ago
Yeah maybe she should go live in judenrein Gaza for a year or so, being a woman that would put a crimp in her decadent entertainment industry lifestyle.
5 years ago
How many “Palestinian” fans does she think she has, in the West Bank, anyway? I doubt she would fill a coffeehouse there, let alone an arena, Pathetic. I will be very interested to see what happens next with this attempt at “balance.”
5 years ago
Who needs that “concert”??
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5 years ago
This is the first I’ve heard of her. Is she important?
5 years ago
Reply to
M. Marsares
Not in the least. Just another celebrity, with no brains and no shame
Israel is better off without her.
5 years ago
Reply to
evangeline golding
I fear Ms. Geller wastes far too much of her valuable time swatting at entertainment flies like this one.
