Sam Smith ‘won’t play Tel Aviv show’ after BDS pressure

British musician Sam Smith will no longer play a planned show in Tel Aviv after coming under fierce criticism from pro-Palestine groups. Organisers of a two-day series of shows in Tel Aviv’s Park Hayarkon said it was cancelling the entire first day of the event which Smith was headlining, Gay Times reported on Friday. “Due to unforeseeable technical and logistical problems on May 31, the concerts of that evening (including Sam Smith) will not happen,” Gay Times quoted a statement from the organisers as saying. The musician, who identifies as non-binary and uses they/them pronouns, came under f…

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