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Legendary songwriter, musician and singer Stevie Wonder cancelled his scheduled performance at a fundraiser to benefit the Israel Defense Forces.
Wonder, the recipient of 25 Grammy Awards and an Academy Awards, claimed that his attendance at the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces (FIDF) Western Regional Gala on Thursday, December 6th would be inconsistent with his status as a UN "Messenger of Peace."
The renowned performer had come under intense social media pressure to pull out of the event, with two different online petitions garnering thousands of signatures.
You were arrested in 1985 protesting South African Apartheid, now we ask you: please remember that apartheid is apartheid, whether it comes from White Afrikaaner settlers of South Africa or from Jewish Israelis in Israel, one petition reads. Desmond Tutu has recognized that Israels Apartheid is worse than South Africas will you stand with us against apartheid and cancel your performance at the IDF fundraiser.
Stevie Wonder Pulls Out of FIDF Concert - Inside Israel - News - Israel National News
THANK YOU, STEVIE WONDER.
Little Stevie Wonder dropped in my college unanounced...being student pres. at the time, we got him a piano from the Music Room and he played for us...