The latest celebrity to emerge as an ignoramus extraordinaire is singer Bryan Adams, who has been tweeting away against Israel.
Besides the usual anti-Israel talking points and platitudes, note how he dismisses the killing of a 4-year-old Israeli, the killing of 3 Israeli teens, the fact Israeli children have to keep running for cover, and the Hamas charter calling for Jews to be killed.
Mr. Prime Minister, @pmharper, The UK PM is sending 20M in aid to #Gaza. Where is Canada’s support for the Palestinian people? #gazachildren
— Bryan Adams (@bryanadams) August 9, 2014
@SoulM8dSunshine I’ve not seen you say one word about the 296 Gaza children actually KILLED in Gaza. http://t.co/YmN8qVGXCd
— Bryan Adams (@bryanadams) August 15, 2014
@southernstacy @SoulM8dSunshine ..and the Israeli blockade of #Gaza just entered its 8th year, leaving its 1.7 million inhabitants destitute
— Bryan Adams (@bryanadams) August 19, 2014
@southernstacy @SoulM8dSunshine Nobody here is anti-semitic – I’m / we’re just pro-people and pro-freedom.
— Bryan Adams (@bryanadams) August 20, 2014
@southernstacy @SoulM8dSunshine I can’t speak for others, I only speak for myself: I say the war against Gaza was a crime against humanity
— Bryan Adams (@bryanadams) August 20, 2014
@southernstacy @SoulM8dSunshine it was never proved who was responsible, and it’s not justification for murdering 2000+ people…541 kids.
— Bryan Adams (@bryanadams) August 20, 2014
@rickphils @dlcdependable and even if this is true, what would you like to say to the families of 500 dead children, 3,000 injured children?
— Bryan Adams (@bryanadams) August 22, 2014
@rickphils so it’s ok with you that thousands of people and entire families were bombed before the press released this article?
— Bryan Adams (@bryanadams) August 22, 2014
@Akrambaker its just what I feel…
— Bryan Adams (@bryanadams) August 25, 2014
@itg821 @WarChildUK Horribly sad to hear this. The annexation of the Palestinians must stop!!
— Bryan Adams (@bryanadams) August 25, 2014
@DAVIDMDRAIMAN @GatestoneInst I read it and I recommend you read this: http://t.co/uqrr8OYq9s
— Bryan Adams (@bryanadams) August 27, 2014
It is a shame Adams does not remember the summer of 69 better. If he did, he would remember how Israel fought and won a battle for its survival just two years earlier, why it needed to hold on to the disputed territories, and how Gaza was under the control of Egypt.
As it turns out, Adams is just another celebrity for whom facts and logic are not music to his ears.
Update: In the past, Adams has claimed to be committed to the OneVoice initiative, which seems anti-Hamas. He also claimed he would return to Israel for a concert, after his planned concert in 2007 was cancelled due to violence.
It should be noted that Bryan Adams, has actually lived in Israel when he was young. His father was formerly the Canadian Ambassador to Israel, and he studied at the American International School (at that time in Kfar Shmaryahu).
It seems that time didn’t teach him much, except how to make bad music.
Err, Jono – The Guess Who, Barenaked Ladies, Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen,
Justin Bieber!! (j/k 😉
I stand by my comment. Other than Leonard Cohen who is ok.
lol ok Bryan’s being a dweeb but maybe he’ll come around with some education, like I think Neil Young did with the Oil Sands. The Band; Tragically Hip; Blue Rodeo; Max Webster; Trooper; Shania Twain; April Wine; OLP; Steppenwolf; Oscar Peterson; Celine Dion (I know I know but no denying she can sing!); Paul Anka; Jann Arden; Diana Krall. And I’m just getting started, You Ain’t Seen Nuthin’ Yet! (BTO).
But also Loreena McKennitt and Mylène Farmer.
I just took another look at the photo that links to this article from the main page.
The palms of his hand appear to be painted red. Is he paying “homage” to the horrific Aziz Salha? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_Ramallah_lynching
Adams hasn’t had a hit recording in 19 years, so he is another past-his-prime singer who is living on nostalgia.
Canada has a great deal more respect from the world than does Israel. Yet we try to support Israel’s right to peace, even if only to support our own political objectives (maintain clout in the middle east; appease the powerful Jewish community in Canada, and support the stance held by the US). Bryan Adams is a highly respected Canadian. If you are using his tweets to try to understand his views, you are doing a grave injustice to yourselves. It’s clear that this feed is not open to varying viewpoints and equally clear that supposedly educated people (Jews and Israelis or people posting here) turn to hateful commentary. The herd mentality is scary and I am ashamed that this is what you are all turning to. Anti-Semitism is different than questioning the tactics of a superpower against an obviously weak and poorly led group of brainwashed fanatics who truly think they have a chance against a brute force hugely funded and supported by an even greater superpower, one that has led to the deaths of 500,000 children in Iraq (thanks Bush). It is evident throughout history that America is a pro-war country and Israel benefits tremendously from that. Bryan is standing up for the weak and oppressed. He’s not saying that Hamas offers sound leadership or that Israeli’s deserve to live under threat. We all know that Israeli quality of life is very high (even though it’s a tough place to live) but their suffering in tough times is not even a fraction of Palestinian suffering in the best of times.