The British Committee for the Universities of Palestine (BRITCUP) has attacked the singer Elton John for planning to give a concert in Israel later this year. The pro-Palestinian group writes in an open letter to the singer: “You are behaving as if playing in Israel is morally neutral. Political or not political, when you stand up on that stage in Tel Aviv, you line yourself up with a racist state.”
BRITCUP called on Elton John to cancel his upcoming performance in Israel in June. "How can the cruelties Israel practices against the Palestinians – fundamentally because the Palestinians are there, on Palestinian land, and Israel wants them to go – be morally neutral?" the campaigners write in letter, adding: "Okay, you turn up in Ramat Gan, and it gets to that ‘Candle in the Wind’ moment, and thousands of lighters flicker – but there won’t be any Palestinians from the Occupied Territories swaying along with the Israelis – the army won’t let them leave their ghettoes.”
The organization, which includes Israeli and Jewish members among its ranks, advised Elton John to read the Goldstone Report as well as reports from human rights groups regarding the decades of what they labeled "crimes committed against the Palestinians."