Fighting anti Semitism

Rabbi calls Lorde a bigot in full-page WaPo ad

By Todd Venezia

January 1, 2018 | 12:39am | Updated 

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Pop singer Lorde was denounced Sunday as a “bigot” in a full-page ad in the Washington Post that was taken out by an outspoken US rabbi, according to reports.

Shmuley Boteach and his This World: The Values Network blasted the 21-year-old “Royals” singer for last week canceling a June concert in Tel Aviv, Israel, in response to criticism from activists in the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement, the Guardian reported.

“While Lorde claims to be concerned with human rights, she hypocritically chose to proceed with her two concerts in Putin’s Russia, despite his support for [Syrian president Bashar al-]Assad’s genocidal regime,” the ad reads. “Let’s boycott the boycotters and tell Lorde and her fellow bigots that Jew-hatred has no place in the twenty-first century.”

The ad also attacked Lorde’s homeland of New Zealand for backing UN condemnations of Israel and its treatment of Palestinians.

The ad said Lorde’s actions showed a “growing prejudice against the Jewish State” in New Zealand was “trickling down to its youth.”