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
, Israel, in response to criticism from activists in the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement,
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“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.”
