Organizers of next week\u2019s Meteor Festival in the Galilee, at which Del Ray was slated to perform, told Israel\u2019s Channel 2 that Del Ray had\u2026<\/b>
\nOrganizers of next week\u2019s Meteor Festival in the Galilee, at which Del Ray was slated to perform, told Israel\u2019s Channel 2 that Del Ray had been the one to propose performing at the festival in the first place.
On Friday, Del Ray took to Twitter to announce the cancellation, citing her desire to play in both Israel and the Palestinian territories.
\u201cIt\u2019s important for me to perform in both Palestine and Israel and treat all my fans equally,\u201d Del Rey wrote on Twitter on Friday.
\u201cUnfortunately it hasn\u2019t been possible to line up both visits with such short notice and therefore I\u2019m postponing my appearance at the Meteor Festival until a time when I can schedule visits for both my Israeli and Palestinian fans,\u201d she said.
Artists performing at the Meteor Festival have been under pressure from the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel to cancel their gigs.
Two weeks ago, Del Rey assured her Israeli fans that she would be coming to play despite the BDS pressure.
\u201cI believe music is universal and should be used to bring us together,\u201d the singer said.
\u201cPerforming in Tel Aviv is not a political statement or a commitment to the politics there just as singing here in California doesn\u2019t mean my views are in alignment [with] my current governments [sic] opinions or sometimes inhuman actions,\u201d she wrote.
Del Rey wrote that while she sees \u201cboth sides,\u201d she was just doing her \u201cbest to navigate the waters of the constant tumultuous hardships\u201d in places she tours around the world.
Festival spokeswoman Liat Turgeman, of the Naranjah production company, told the Jerusalem Post on Saturday, \u201cThis is a festival with more than 130 international and local artists, and the number of cancellations is not significant or dramatic in relation to the amount of participating artists.\u201d
Turgeman added, \u201cDespite the difficulties, we are sufficiently determined and excited to overcome them and to begin in a few days with a festival that we have worked very hard on for almost a year.\u201d
On Saturday, infamous anti-Israel boycott leader and former Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters, who was heavily involved in the campaign to bully Del Ray into cancelling, demanded Kamasi Washington follow suit.
\u201cI had assumed it would be a given that you would cancel,\u201d Waters wrote on Facebook. \u201cI love your work.\u2026 Given that Lana Del Rey has now canceled, you are the only notable standout. Please don\u2019t play the Meteor Festival. To do so would be a betrayal of everyone who ever stood up for civil or human rights anywhere.\u201d
Earlier this year, more than 100 artists \u2014 including Waters \u2014 penned an open letter in support of New Zealand pop singer Lorde, who succumbed to pressure from anti-Israel activists and cancelled her scheduled performance in Israel.<\/p>\n

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