Italian protests against the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and Zubin Mehta

Fol­low­ing in the foot­steps of the pro­test­ers at the Royal Albert Hall on the 1st of this month, the Italian Cam­paign for the Aca­demic & Cul­tural Boy­cott of Israel have announced their inten­tion to boy­cott Zubin Mehta’s forth­com­ing con­certs with the Israel Phil­har­monic Orches­tra in Milan and Turin.

In a state­ment they say that, like the pro­test­ers in Lon­don, they will be out­side the Teatro degli Arcim­boldi in Milan on Septem­ber 13 and the Aud­it­or­ium Gio­vanni Agnelli–Lingotto in Turin on Septem­ber 14. They don’t say that their protest will con­tinue inside the theatres.

They pre­vi­ously asked the organ­isers of this three-week music fest­ival, MITO (Milano-Torino), to can­cel the pro­gramme, draw­ing note to a phrase on the orchestra’s web­site:

The IPO plays in sub­scrip­tion series, … and spe­cial con­certs for IDF sol­diers at their outposts”.

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