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Paul Weller attacks Harris and Trotter after his words about the “genocide in Ghaza”
British music legend
The British musician Paul Weller, former leader of the cult group The Jam, filed a complaint against the cabinet Harris and Trotter, who broke all collaboration with him after his positions in favor of the Palestinian people.
The artist had denounced what he described as “genocide” committed by Israel in Gaza. According to a letter revealed by the press, an partner of the cabinet justified this rupture by explaining not to want to work with a personality expressing “anti-Israeli views”. For Weller, 67 years old, it is a blatant discrimination based on his philosophical convictions, including the right of Palestinians to self -determination and recognition of Palestine as a state.
“I have always denounced injustice, whether apartheid, ethnic cleaning or genocide,” he said, recalling that “to silence those who carry this truth is to be an accomplice”. The artist undertakes to donate any possible compensation for humanitarian aid for Gaza. His lawyer sees in this case a new example of increasing pressures that are exercised on the artists and public figures in solidarity with the Palestinian people.
British music icon, nicknamed The Modfather, Paul Weller has marked several generations. Leader of The Jam at the end of the 1970s, he then founded The Style Council, a group engaged against racism and the policy of Margaret Thatcher. Since the 1990s, he has pursued a brilliant solo career, remaining a musical reference but also a voice committed against injustice.