vrijdag 2 september 2011

Protests disrupt Proms concert by Israel Philharmonic

Zubin Mehta and the IPO waiting for more protesters to be removed last night.

Protesters have disrupted the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra's BBC Proms concert at London's Royal Albert Hall.

Several demonstrators in the hall shouted as Zubin Mehta stood to conduct Bruch's violin concerto. Many other audience members booed in response.

BBC Radio 3 said it had to interrupt its live broadcast twice "as a result of sustained audience disturbance".

The Palestine Solidarity Campaign had earlier called on people to boycott the concert and urged the BBC to cancel it.

In a statement published on its website ahead of the Proms, the pro-Palestinian group claimed the IPO showed "complicity in whitewashing Israel's persistent violations of international law and human rights".

Source: BBC

Read: Why did the BBC pull last night’s live transmission of the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra at the Proms?



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