their children and grandparents and themselves, I feel deeply that I should not be sending even tacit signals that this is either `normal` or `ok`." This adds Faithless to a lengthening list of artists, including Elvis Costello, the Pixies and the Gorillaz, who have refused to do in Israel while it occupies parts of the Palestinian territories.Faithless had played in Israel in the past. Check out the justification their lead guitarist gives for choosing only to boycott Israel:"A doubt that usually arises is why we aren`t boycotting the US or Britain because of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan," he said. "We can`t boycott Britain - we be here - and in the US the music market is so big that it would go unnoticed. If you`re serious about trying to possess the man a better place, you get to be strategic."So, according to these brilliant rock stars, it is only as problematic to act in the UK and US as it is in Israel, but since it is not practical - they won't bother. Not to find how their entire incomes would go down to zero. Isn't it capital to see how dedicated these jokers are to morality? But it gets even better. Faithless has no problem playing in the UAE, for example, where there are massive human rights violations against its majority migrant population. Even better, but Faithless has performed in Beirut - in a counry that has literal laws on the books that discriminate against Palestinian Arabs, severely limiting their power to get jobs, to own land, and forbidding their becoming citizens. Would this enlightened band consider boycotting these two comparatively small countries where their political statement would be noticed by many people? Yeah, right. Faithless pretends they are somehow making a moral statement by shunning Israel when in fact they are simply blindly following the crew without knowing the first thing about the issue they are pretending to be so worked up about.
