A full-page advertisement in the Washington Post calls New Zealand musician Lorde a bigot and accuses her country of prejudice against Israel.
The advertisment featured in the Washington Post's New Year's Eve edition and was taken out by Rabbi Shmuley Boteach’s This World: The Values network. The piece criticises the 21-year-old Grammy award winning singer for joining "a global antisemitic boycott of Israel" while agreeing to perform in Russia.
Under the headline "Lorde and New Zealand ignore Syria to attack Israel", the ad features a photograph of the singer against an image of people running through a bombed street carrying babies.
The advertisement says Lorde’s decision demonstrated that a "growing prejudice against the Jewish State" in New Zealand was "trickling down to its youth."
The singer has cancelled a concert scheduled in Tel Aviv for June after criticism from activists in the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement.
The decision also came after an open letter written by two New Zealand fans which stated that any such concert would indicate support for Israel’s occupation of Palestine.
"I love New Zealand, it’s one of the most beautiful countries in the world ..., " declared Rabbi Boteach in a video posted online. "What is New Zealand doing exporting hatred and bigotry against Israel, the only democracy in the Middle East?"
The Rabbi accused Lorde of promoting prejudice and lies against Jews and criticised her appearances in Russia which he declared "aided and abetted a genocide of Sunni Muslims in Syria."
