In response to pressure from the Boycott, Divest, and Sanction (BDS) movement, a Spanish music festival has disinvited the American-Jewish reggae musician Matisyahu after he refused to sign a statement endorsing Palestinian statehood. Douglas Murray comments:
Matisyahu is of course not the first Jew to suffer this type of pressure. In Europe, and increasingly in America too, any and all performers who come from Israel can be abused and vilified in the name of “progressive” values. . . . But the treatment of Matisyahu is something new. For Matisyahu is not an Israeli—he is an American. . . .
Why . . . is the BDS campaign able to normalize such a demand, and [convince] a festival to cancel a performance based on non-compliance with such grotesque demands?
The answer is the fever of our time. For a while, only Israeli Jews were made pariahs among the nations because of an unresolved border dispute involving their country. Now it is Jews born anywhere else in the world who can be targeted in the same way. They are singling out Jews—Jews and only Jews. And their singling out of Jews, wherever they are from, makes their racist motivation abundantly clear.
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