A Jewish organisation has applauded Indigenous singer Jessica Mauboy for standing up to anti-Israel activists on her Instagram page.
The Anti-Defamation Commission said the 28-year-old popstar was ‘clear-eyed and principled’ after vile abuse was thrown at Mauboy when she announced to fans she had just touched down in Israel for a Eurovision promotion.
The group said the Darwin-born singer’s ‘only ‘crime’ is that she wants to share her love and singing prowess with the people of Israel—Jews, Muslims and Christians’.
Indigenous popstar Jessica Mauboy has been applauded by a Jewish group after she stood up to anti-Israel activists
A Muslim man accused the singer of being a ‘f***ing terrorist supporter’ following the shooting of a Palestinian cameraman by Israeli troops on the Gaza border.
Another critic targeted Mauboy over her indigenous heritage on her mother’s side, accusing her of ignoring the plight of Palestinians.
‘Have you forgotten the treatment of your ancestors? Because that is what you are promoting right there,’ one woman wrote on Sunday night.
Mauboy, who first shot to fame as the 2006 Australian Idol runner-up, is representing Australia next month at the Eurovision Song Contest in the Portuguese capital of Lisbon with her song We Got Love.
The Anti-Defamation Commission said the 28-year-old popstar was ‘clear-eyed and principled’ after vile abuse was thrown at Mauboy when she announced to fans she had just touched down in Israel for a Eurovision promotion.
Ahead of her second turn as Australia’s Eurovision flag bearer, she will be performing at Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square on Tuesday as part of ‘Israel Calling’, an annual event where Eurovision contestants gather in Israel for a promotional campaign.
Several critics said she should have followed the lead of New Zealand singer-songwriter Lorde, who last year cancelled a concert in Israel following a campaign by Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions activists.
However, Mauboy’s supporters urged her to ‘ignore the anti-Israelis’ who had been ‘brainwashed’ by pro-Palestinian activists.
A Muslim man posted a vile message on Jessica Mauboy’s public Instagram account
Another critic targeted Mauboy over her indigenous heritage on her mother’s side, accusing her of ignoring the plight of Palestinians
The group said the Darwin-born singer’s ‘only ‘crime’ is that she wants to share her love and singing prowess with the people of Israel—Jews, Muslims and Christians’
Anti-Israel activists have ramped up their campaigning after Israeli snipers last week gunned down protesters at the Gaza border, killing Yaser Murtaja, 30, a cameraman for Palestinian Ain Media.
Israeli Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman said that the journalist wearing a press vest, who died on Saturday, had been flying a drone.
‘Anyone who operates drones over Israeli soldiers needs to understand he’s putting himself at risk,’ he told a forum in Israel covered by the Haaretz newspaper.
The 28-year-old Darwin-raised singer copped a barrage of abuse on social media when she told fans she had just touched down in Israel for a Eurovision promotion