Germany festival bars US rapper for refusing to condemn BDS
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American hip hop singer Talib Kweli on 29 April 2012 [meghan.roberts/Flickr]
A German music festival has recently disinvited American hip hop singer Talib Kweli for refusing to condemn the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement.
Kweli revealed last week that he had received an email from the Artistic Director of the German Open Source Festival, Philipp Maiburg, asking artists to announce their position regarding the BDS movement following a decision by the German parliament designating the movement “anti-Semitic”.
“As you know, there are many discussions around the BDS in Germany and artists which have signed to it. There has also been a lot of confusion even with much bigger festivals than ours,” Maiburg said.
Although the German parliament’s decision is no...