The Winner Is Tel Aviv: Eurovision Confirms Israeli City Will Host 2019 Event
The organisers of the Eurovision Song Contest have ended months of speculation by confirming next year’s competition will be held in Tel Aviv.
The organisers of the Eurovision Song Contest have ended months of speculation by confirming next year’s competition will be held in Tel Aviv.
Former Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters has demanded performing artists from around the world boycott next year’s Eurovision song contest set down for Israel.
A top Israeli politician reached out to Lana Del Rey on Monday, three days after the American singer and songwriter announced she was postponing an upcoming performance in the Jewish state after she faced intense pressure from the BDS movement.
Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters denounced the White Helmets civil defense group in Syria as a “fake organization” that spreads propaganda for “jihadists and terrorists.”
The Stranglers are heading for Tel Aviv. The classic 1970s punk band have confirmed tour dates for the city this summer, defying anti-Israel lobbyists who work to dissuade performers from visiting the Jewish state.
Former Pink Floyd singer Roger Waters has joined Palestinian performers Trio Joubran to record a song attacking Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and move the U.S. embasssy from Tel Aviv accordingly.
TEL AVIV – More than 100 artists penned an open letter published in the UK’s Guardian newspaper Friday in support of New Zealand pop singer Lorde, who succumbed to pressure from anti-Israel activists and cancelled her scheduled performance in the Jewish state.
Two state-funded German television stations have withdrawn their support of Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters ahead of his tour of the country next year.
A petition has been launched in Cologne, Germany asking the regional public broadcaster WDR drop their support for Rogers Waters’ upcoming “Us + Them” concert on the grounds of his previous expressions of anti-Semitism.
TEL AVIV – Rocker Nick Cave said his decision to perform in Israel on Sunday and Monday was the direct result of the BDS movement which “bullies and censors” musicians.
The student group J Street U is co-hosting a screening at Macalester College on Thursday evening of a film that has been criticized for demonizing Israel and whitewashing Palestinian terrorism, and features leading proponents of the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaign.
TEL AVIV – Boy George shot down claims from BDS activists that his performance in Tel Aviv Tuesday night was tantamount to performing in South Africa during apartheid, saying the two weren’t comparable and that Israel was in his heart.
TEL AVIV – Nick Cave and his band are the latest targets of Roger Waters bullying campaign aimed at preventing the singer from playing in “apartheid” Israel next month.
Former Pink Floyd bassist Roger Waters intimated this week that a pro-Israel conspiracy controls what can be said about the Jewish state in the US media.
Every now and then, former Pink Floyd front man Roger Waters rises like a ghost from the depths of his own depravity to spew his blatant Jew-hatred shamelessly across the airwaves. He can’t help it.
TEL AVIV – Former Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters compared the Israeli government to Nazi Germany, saying Israel was “the worst regime in the world,” during an hour-long Q&A session over the weekend led by Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement leader Omar Barghouti.
British rocker Roger Waters warned Americans in an interview this week, saying voters need to survive President Donald Trump’s “totally unpredictable” agenda.
Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters was accused of pushing anti-Semitism and anti-Israel hatred ahead of his concert in Miami on Thursday night.
TEL AVIV – Radiohead lead singer Thom Yorke defended his band’s decision to play in Israel following harsh criticism from British filmmaker Ken Loach.
Pink Floyd fans booed Roger Waters at a concert in New Orleans over the weekend after the rocker displayed several profane images meant to degrade President Donald Trump on the giant screens behind him.
TEL AVIV – Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke on Friday flipped his middle finger at a group of pro-Palestinian protesters at a gig in Glasgow, Scotland who were calling for the band to cancel its upcoming gig in Tel Aviv.
TEL AVIV – A leading U.S.-based Jewish group attempted to give former Pink Floyd singer Roger Waters a taste of his own medicine by slamming the owners of major stadiums for giving the Israel-boycotting musician a platform and urging them to boycott his current tour.
Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters is using his newest tour to blast President Donald Trump, with slogans like “F*ck Trump” and images of a naked Trump wearing a Ku Klux Klan hood appearing behind the bassist on stage.
British rock band Radiohead has no intention of listening to Roger Waters and will go ahead as planned with a concert in Tel Aviv later this summer.
Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters has joined a line-up of arts world figures urging British rock band Radiohead to scrap its upcoming show in Israel and “stay away, until apartheid is over.”
TEL AVIV –Princess of Pop Britney Spears will reportedly give her first ever performance in Israel this summer as part of her upcoming world tour.
With the New Year upon us — and a new President set to take office — it is time to acknowledge and reflect on the year’s most epic freakouts, tantrums and meltdowns from Hollywood’s best and brightest about Donald J. Trump.
JERUSALEM – An event attended by former Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) was slammed by pro-Israel student groups over its claim that “Israel manipulates the minds of politicians and ordinary Americans.”
TEL AVIV – More than two decades since their last performance in Israel, Aerosmith is slated to return to the Holy Land for a one-off concert in Tel Aviv in May 2017.
Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Water compared Donald Trump’s political rise to that of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler during an interview this week on WTF With Marc Maron.
Roger Waters is planning his most spectacular and expensive tour yet — but the Pink Floyd legend is facing backlash from some big-name sponsors over his views on Israel.
Pink Floyd bassist Roger Waters attacked Donald Trump, expressed support for the Black Lives Matter movement and urged the Israeli government to “end the occupation” in Palestine during his performance Sunday at the Desert Trip music festival in Indio, California.
Surviving Pink Floyd band members David Gilmour, Roger Waters, and Nick Mason united to release a joint statement in support of the all-female crew of activists who were arrested this week while attempting to break Israel’s blockade of Gaza.
TEL AVIV – Despite the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement’s best efforts, a star-studded lineup of musicians are refusing to give in to the pressure not to perform in Israel. For the first time ever, rock icon Alice Cooper will perform
Pink Floyd front man and notorious anti-Israel activist Roger Waters published an open letter slamming a Jewish businessman for pulling financial support from a Canadian university over a mural that has sparked controversy for depicting what critics see as anti-Semitic
In a new interview, Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters tells Rolling Stone he is worried by Hillary Clinton’s candidacy, as he fears the former Secretary of State might become the first woman to instigate a nuclear war.
Former Pink Floyd bassist and current BDS campaigner Roger Waters railed against Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump in a new interview with Rolling Stone set to be released this month. In an excerpt from the interview published Tuesday, Waters called Trump’s
Former president Bill Clinton was seen partying with Rockstars in the Hamptons this past weekend.