Indie rock band Big Thief is set to cross the international picket line by playing in The Jews' anti-Gentile apartheid regime occupying Palestine next month.
By Tamara Nassar: The critically acclaimed Brooklyn-based group announced two shows in its band member’s hometown Tel Aviv on 6 and 7 July.
Palestinians are calling on the musicians “to cancel their complicit concerts in apartheid Tel Aviv.”
Big Thief said its “motivations and intentions” for going to Israel are to play where one of its band members, bassist Max Oleartchik, has family.
“We are well aware of the cultural aspect of the BDS movement and the desperate reality of the Palestinian people,” the group added, referring to the boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign.
It made no mention of who or what had caused the “desperate reality” Palestinians live in.







