ISRAEL

 

HAARETZ

The Interior Ministry asked the producer of Elton John’s upcoming concert in Tel Aviv to sign a declaration of loyalty on John’s behalf as a condition of his appearance here in May, concert producer Shuki Weiss said on Monday. Later the Interior Ministry called Weiss’ statement “wacky and crazy” and “a blatant lie.”

Speaking on a panel at a conference sponsored by Yedioth Ahronoth and Ynet on the struggle against the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement, Weiss said, “Artists are refusing to sign a declaration of loyalty to Israel as a condition for coming to Israel. That was a demand made by the Interior Ministry as a condition for getting a work visa. Only two weeks ago Elton John was asked to sign a declaration of loyalty. That insane idea has been dropped.”

Weiss added that he had received an official request from the Interior Ministry “which transferred the handling of the work visa required of every performer who comes to Israel, to the Population, Immigration and Border Authority, which deals with work visas for foreign workers, and there you have to sign [a] loyalty to Israel [declaration].”

According to sources in Weiss’ office, the issue was dropped when the producer explained the problematic nature of the request. The British singer is scheduled to perform May 26 at Ganei Yehoshua in Tel Aviv.

The Interior Ministry spokeswoman denied the claims, calling them “wacky and crazy.”

“This is a blatant lie aimed at grabbing headlines at the expense of a government ministry. Never has any artist been asked to sign such a declaration. We are considering a libel suit against Weiss,” she said.

Later, Weiss’ office produced the standard form for obtaining an entry permit to Israel and pointed out what it considers the problematic clause, which reads, “I declare that I have never acted against the Jewish people or the security of the State of Israel.”

In response, the spokeswoman said, “What does that have to do with a declaration of loyalty? Why hasn’t Shuki Weiss, who brings foreign artists here every Monday and Thursday, ever raised an outcry over the years and waited until today?”

Responding to a query from Haaretz, Weiss said he brought up the form to “illustrate the lack of cooperation and support by the government in holding international cultural events in Israel.”

6 thoughts on “Elton John Asked to Declare Loyalty to Israel Ahead of Tel Aviv Show, Producer Claims”
  1. Elton or should i say Reginald Kenneth Dwight do the right thing and cancel but you wont because you love £ and $ too much.

  2. Hmmm

    It will not be long before the Queen finally dies of old age and a new Queen ascends to the throne. Perhaps the new Jewish Queen will have different thoughts on the subject of fealty to Israel.

  3. “WHAT DOES THAT HAVE TO DO WITH A DECLARATION OF LOYALTY?”
    A group of people that has become so hated in the world that they now demand loyalty?

    It’s like getting a doctor to sign off on your heath that you are cancer free when in reality
    it is now bone cancer. When the truth finally hits the brain who is then going to take the blame?
    The doctor probably.

    This should wake up any Jew hopefully how destructive they’ve become to themselves and
    the world. This should wake them up to their own demise of what their beliefs have brought them. Maybe there is a tiny sliver of light in that brain left, like the doctor, they themselves
    are to blame. I hope so.

    BOAST NOT AGAINST THE BRANCHES – Romans 11:18 (21)

    “Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root,
    but the root thee.”

    Isaiah 53:2(1, 3); “For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a
    root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall
    see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.”

    Isaiah 53:2 tells us that he was uncomely and verse 3 tells us that he was
    despised.

    WHAT ARE THESE VERSES TELLING US TODAY? The branches are the
    descendants from which came our present knowledge of Christ yet the original
    Jews did not receive the report. All the blessings which we have gained were
    from them to begin with but now they have become a despised people for their
    rejection of him. Christ grew up from the dry ground they had become still they
    did not see it. We are not to boast over or exalt over any others but know that
    the root is still there to grow in belief spiritually. Verse 21 tells us that God
    spared not the ‘natural’ branches. The spiritual branch is what we now are.

    Isaiah 53:1; “Who hath believed our report? And to whom is the arm of the
    LORD revealed? In other words: who believes our doctrine and who hears now?

    The arm of the Lord (arm-James Strong’s Concordance #2220/2232) means to
    sow, plant, conceive seed, yield. The arm of the Lord is that seed of Christ:

    Genesis 22:17, 18/26:4/28:14. WHAT ABOUT MODERN DAY JEWS? Isaiah 51:8;

    “Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as in the ancient
    days, in the generations of old. Art thou not it that hath cut Rahab, and
    wounded the dragon?” HOW? Genesis 3:15 (John 12:38/Romans 10:16), says
    the seed will become bruised because they have not all believed the gospel.

    WHAT SEED? Exodus 9:32/Isaiah 28:25. The wheat and the rie in their place.
    WHAT PLACE? Revelation 3:4, tells us of those few names. These that will come
    to Christ are those who have rejected him so long ago. The few Jews who finally
    come to that knowledge that they overlooked his coming. They are the rie.

    Hope some do wake-up and heaven help them if they do.

  4. Personally, I give a damn what Elton John does.

    In order to bless his marriage with a Canadian gay, Elton claimed in 2013 that “if Jesus was alive today, he would have supported same sex marriage.”

    Sir Elton John also called Jesus “a super intelligent gay man”, (Guardian, February 19, 2010″. Elton John married Canadian David James Furnish, a gay film and TV producer in 2005.

    https://rehmat1.com/2010/12/28/hideseek-exhibition-insults-jesus/

  5. AFP ON 3/29:

    Israel has rejected as “delusional” a claim that superstar Elton John was asked to declare loyalty to the Jewish state before an upcoming concert.

    The “Rocket Man” singer’s Israeli concert organiser Shuki Weiss issued the claim on Monday, saying the interior ministry initially made the demand as a condition for getting a visa.

    “Only two weeks ago Elton John was asked to sign a declaration of loyalty. That insane idea has been dropped,” he said, according to Israeli media reports.

    His office pointed to a supposedly problematic clause in the visa form which reads: “I declare that I have never acted against the Jewish people or the security of the state of Israel,” the Haaretz newspaper reported.

    The interior ministry denied that was anything unusual, and said it would consider suing Weiss for defamation.

    “We are talking about a blatant lie which is meant to provide headlines for the promoter at the expense of a government ministry,” spokeswoman Sabin Hadad said.

    “No artist has ever been asked to sign such a declaration and to think such a thing is delusional.”

    John is scheduled to perform in Israel’s commercial capital Tel Aviv on May 26

    The clause in the visa form which reads: “I declare that I have never acted against the Jewish people or the security of the state of Israel,” is NOT the same as declaring allegiance. I may feel insulted for having to declare this. But we are pointing fingers at Israel when we have a Presidential nominee stating that he wants to ban all Muslims from entering the US for an indefinite amount of time.

    Facts, context and perspective do matter!!!

  6. The legendary Brian Wilson and Band ( The Beach Boys) will be making a stop in Israel during his upcoming world tour. In November 2014 , they had been set to perform in Tel Aviv’s Nokia Stadium , but due to poor ticket sales, the show was cancelled. My brother is one of the lead guitarist and singers in the band. He’s a Russian Christian Orthodox and we all know how much Israel loves Russian Christians Orthodox. Oh! Vey! I will get more info. when he returns from the tour.

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