More than 50 artists, including the poet Benjamin Zephaniah and the Turner prize co-winner Tai Shani, have protested over the Barbican arts venue’s collaboration with the Israeli embassy in London in putting on a concert.
Arguing that the Israeli government must be “held to account for its policies towards the Palestinian people”, the artists say the concert this weekend is “a cynical attempt to re-brand apartheid as diversity and military occupation as tolerance”.
