Clairo, Lucy Dacus & More Artists Join ‘No Music for Genocide’ Israel Boycott as Ceasefire Takes Effect

The No Music for Genocide origin is continuing to grow, with Clairo, Lucy Dacus and galore different artists announcing their committedness to removing their catalogs from Israel amid the unit successful Gaza.

The run announced the caller additions connected Friday (Oct. 10), revealing that Nao, Wolf Alice, Of Monsters and Men, Aurora and Mallrat person besides added their names to the boycott. The quality comes soon aft Lorde, Hayley Williams, Paramore, Björk, MUNA and Paloma Faith joined the 1,000-plus others who are portion of the increasing movement.

Originally launching successful September with much than 400 signees, No Music for Genocide aims to enactment Palestinian radical by pulling euphony from streaming services successful Israel done geo-blocking. Kneecap, Faye Webster, Japanese Breakfast, Aminé, Massive Attack, Soccer Mommy, Rina Sawayama, MIKE, Primal Scream and Fontaines D.C. were among the archetypal artists to articulation erstwhile it launched.

“Culture can’t halt bombs connected its own, but it tin assistance cull governmental repression, displacement nationalist sentiment toward justness and garbage the art-washing and normalization of immoderate institution oregon federation that commits crimes against humanity,” reads a connection from No Music for Genocide successful a release. “This inaugural is 1 portion of a worldwide question to erode the enactment Israel needs to proceed its ongoing systems of oppression.”

News of the campaign’s enlargement comes conscionable a fewer days aft Israel’s warfare against Hamas — which began connected Oct. 7, 2023, aft the violent radical attacked and killed 1,200 Israelis portion taking 251 much hostage — reached the two-year mark. Israel has killed more than 67,000 Palestinians successful that time, starring the United Nations to declare successful September that the state is committing genocide.

As of Friday, however, Israel declared that a ceasefire has taken effect, pulling troops retired of municipality areas successful speech for Hamas’ merchandise of 20 hostages. Israel volition past escaped 250 imprisoned Palestinians and 1,700 warfare detainees, according to Reuters.

With Israeli subject present pulling retired of parts of Gaza, thousands of Palestinians are presently traveling backmost connected ft to immoderate is near of their abandoned homes. To accidental the least, it’s a bittersweet infinitesimal that follows much than 700 consecutive days of violence, hunger and homelessness experienced by the Palestinian people, arsenic good arsenic 2 years of radical each implicit the satellite — including many A-list artists — protesting Israel’s actions.

“People are screaming with joyousness successful the streets,” a 20-year-old Palestinian pistillate named Raghad Izzat Hamou...