Israeli singer Dudu Tassa and Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood’s performances in the UK next month have been cancelled following pressure from the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Movement.
“Palestinians welcome the cancellation of Jonny Greenwood and Dudu Tassa’s concert, which was due to take place in Bristol, UK on the 23rd June and would have whitewashed Israel’s genocide against 2.3m Palestinians in Gaza and underlying settler-colonial apartheid regime,” the BDS movement said in a post on X on Friday.
The movement said Jonny Greenwood, guitarist with Radiohead and The Smile, had performed in apartheid Tel Aviv along with Dudu Tassa in May 2024, on a night that “genocidal Israeli forces massacred displaced Palestinians in their tents in Rafah, burning them alive, just a short drive away.”
The movement also noted that Tassa has repeatedly performed for Israeli soldiers, “willingly acting as a cultural ambassador for apartheid Israel,” and called on the Hackney Church to cancel its scheduled 25th June concert with the pair.
Palestinians welcome the cancellation of Jonny Greenwood and Dudu Tassa’s concert, which was due to take place in Bristol, UK on the 23rd June and would have whitewashed Israel’s genocide against 2.3m Palestinians in Gaza and underlying settler-colonial apartheid regime. pic.twitter.com/PE12H1ohVL
— PACBI – BDS movement (@PACBI) May 1, 2025