After receiving pressure from both sides, rap legend Snoop Dogg canceled his September show in Israel. He cited contractual differences, according to YNet News.
The concert was initially scheduled to take place in Ramat Gan. The city was built on the ruins of the Palestinian village of Salama (Arabic: سلمة), whose 7,807 Palestinian residents were ethnically cleansed on April 25th, 1948 by Zionist militias — three weeks before the State of Israel came into existence and the surrounding Arab armies attacked. The residents of this village were among the more than 700,000 Palestinians ethnically cleaned from their homeland in 1948.
The concert was however moved later to Rishon Lezion, a city that began as a Zionist settlement in 1882.
The campaign asking Snoop to not perform in Israel is part of a larger movement calling for a boycott. The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) and small Israeli groups were the first to write letters to Snoop.
American activists soon followed. One Palestinian solidarity activist wrote in a letter to Snoop:
Because of its support, many artists respecting the boycott of Apartheid South Africa also boycotted Israel at the time, including Bob Marley. Today, many prominent South Africans are asking artists to boycott Apartheid Israel.
Hip-hop is growing among disenfranchised and dispossessed Palestinian youth who have been inspired by your lyrics and the lyrics of other African-American rappers against racism and injustice. These Palestinian artists, be they MCs, DJs, breakers or graffiti artists, live under constant threat of death and arrest at the hands of the Israeli army and many, particularly in the West Bank and Gaza find it nearly impossible to attend shows or tour because they are confined to their neighborhoods and cities by checkpoints and walls. It is doubtful that many Palestinians, for example, would be able to attend your show in Ramat Gan because of Israel’s racism. Only the few Palestinians with Israeli citizenship will attend. Most Palestinians live under occupation and have no citizenship rights at all – they will be banned from attending your show.
Such pressure campaigns are necessary since the world’s powers seem to have no antidote for Israel’s brutal occupation — the United States actively supports it. That is why an organic movement is needed. And too many around the world are fed up with Israeli immunity and the cycle of violence its policies generate.
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Posted by razan | July 23, 2008, 7:50 amHa ha Razan. I can hear it in my head…
Posted by Will | July 23, 2008, 8:03 amGreat post. Snoop is the man!
Posted by Anonymous | July 23, 2008, 3:54 pmSnoop is a raping, womanizing thug. Let’s not get sidetracked. Just cause he didn’t do a concert in Israel does not make him some angel.
Posted by Anonymous | July 23, 2008, 4:45 pmGot a legit link for your claims?
You might want to re-phrase things a bit too: The city was built up as an Israeli city after the Palestinians tried to destroy Israel in 1948. They lost and continue to cry like babies about it to this day, forgetting the fact why there was a war in the first place.
Interesting how Will is becoming more and more loony as time goes on. Later nerds. Except for Will, he’s down.
Posted by Anonymous | July 23, 2008, 7:38 pmIs Snoop Dog really someone who “inspires” anybody? Jesus, if this is a guy that young Palestinians look up to, you guys are even more fucked up than I thought.
Posted by Brad | July 23, 2008, 7:51 pmPERHAPS Snoop’s producer, Farid Nassar (Palestinian)aka Fred Wreck, could share with you some conversation he had with Snoop in an interview Fred did for LA Weekly in June 2005
http://www.laweekly.com/news/features/the-
mad-science-of-fredwreck/569/
Too bad Snoop had contractural problems Israel. Fact is, he’s had your number for quite a while. Since some of you obvious zionists don’t care for him anyways, nothing lost right?
Posted by Robin | July 23, 2008, 8:47 pmNo need to shoop da whoop, he only postponed it. I don’t see how that’s a victory.
Posted by dopesexyfuck | July 24, 2008, 8:43 ammr. dopesexy: where do see that he’s postponed it? all i see is cancelled, nothing about playing later.
Posted by Anonymous | July 24, 2008, 9:27 amToo bad Snoop had contractural problems Israel. Fact is, he’s had your number for quite a while. Since some of you obvious zionists don’t care for him anyways, nothing lost right?
Snoop’s IQ is about 59. Glad to see he’s a mentor of so many people on this blog, yo?
Posted by programmer craig | July 24, 2008, 12:17 pmI read it wrong, my bad, good for him though.
Posted by dopesexyfuck | July 24, 2008, 4:12 pmHe is definitely following in nelson Mandella's & Bob Marley's foot prints. Bob was a zionist of peaceful zion in Africa, a utopia, not a killing conquering war mongor who shoots at you with his bunch of ex nazi concentration camp buddies and then spits in your face, starts a fight then says ooops war broke out, let's ethnically cleanse 10,000 people under the guise of war quick. Bob marley rest his soul would never do that.
Peace, way to go Snoop!
Posted by SamSeven | July 25, 2008, 2:51 pmAn yo Zionist, stay back…cuz …. u aint wanted.
Aprtheid S.A. built it for us then handed it over, so keep building occupied palistine because one day you will have to hand it over too.
Posted by SamSeven | July 25, 2008, 2:53 pmThaT’s Cool,No thats Awsome..:D
Posted by Anonymous | July 26, 2008, 3:56 pmGood job, CAIR does alot to support teh ARAB casue
Posted by Ali | July 30, 2008, 2:10 amso what!
let snoop perform, if palestinians (we) boycott him it’ll all be for the best, and we won’t need to hear P.I.M.P or the like on phones and as ringtones, polluting our sonic atmosphere.
i wish that all shitty/meaningless artists perform in israel, including tamer husny. we’d all boycott them and people will start listening to some proper stuff.
+ i don’t think that snoop dogg actually gives a flying f*ck about slavery and black culture and all that stuff, he’s too busy worshipping the green and making deals with cash-hungry mega-record-labels.
please start listening to something proper if you’re reading this and happen to listen to *shit*
i don’t mean to sound condescending at all, but people really need to start listening..
“in a world where everybody hears but, nobody’s listening”
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