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Alicia Keys, Depeche Mode to perform in Tel Aviv

February 22, 2013 11:08
Alicia Keys at the 2009 American Music Awards (Photo: Keith HInkle)

ByJennifer Lipman, Jennifer Lipman

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Alicia Keys and the band Depeche Mode have become the latest artists to be targeted by supporters of a cultural boycott of Israel.

The US singer is due to perform in Tel Aviv in July for the first time in her career, while the English band, who rose to fame in the 1980s, are set to entertain an Israeli audience in May.

They are being urged by boycott organisations to pull out of the shows, just as other internationally - acclaimed artists, including the Red Hot Chilli Peppers and Alanis Morrisette have been targeted in the past.

"We all ask Alicia Keys to stand on the side of justice and cancel her gig in Tel Aviv," said the US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel.