Dua Lipa fired her manager because his stance on Palestine doesn’t align with hers

Dua Lipa has fired her manager, David Levy, aft helium signed a missive demanding the removal of the pro-Palestinian Irish set Kneecap from the Glastonbury Festival past July.

Before the festival, respective figures from the euphony manufacture had signed a missive sent to the festival’s founder, Michael Eavis, urging him to cancel the band’s participation.

However, the missive was leaked, with well-known names from the euphony country denouncing it. As a result, Kneecap went connected to execute arsenic scheduled. Among the signatories was David Levy, Dua Lipa’s manager.

According to the Daily Mail, citing a root successful the euphony industry, the singer’s determination to disregard Levy is connected to her pro-Palestinian stance, which “does not align” with that of her erstwhile associate.

“She sees him arsenic a protagonist of Israel’s warfare successful Gaza and of the appalling attraction of Palestinians—something made perfectly wide by the missive helium signed and sent to Michael Eavis,” the root told the British paper.

The set Kneecap has faced backlash implicit accusations that it supports the Lebanese equipped radical Hezbollah and the Palestinian Hamas, thing it denies.

In May, Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh, known by his signifier sanction Mo Chara, was charged nether UK anti-terrorism instrumentality for allegedly waving a Hezbollah emblem astatine a performance past November. His lawsuit has been adjourned until the extremity of the month.

Last week, Kneecap criticized the Canadian authorities for barring them introduction into the country, accusing them of supporting governmental unit and coercion done groups specified arsenic Hamas and Hezbollah.

In response, Kneecap called the comments by Vince Gasparro, Liberal MP and parliamentary caput for transgression reduction, “completely untrue and profoundly malicious,” adjacent threatening ineligible enactment against him.

An expanding fig of pro-Palestinian artists are calling for a stronger stance from the euphony industry. On Friday, much than 400 musicians and grounds labels signed the “No Music for Genocide” initiative, withdrawing their euphony from Israel successful protestation against the warfare successful Gaza and the “ethnic cleansing successful the occupied West Bank.” “This tangible enactment is conscionable 1 measurement toward gathering Palestinian demands to isolate and delegitimize Israel, arsenic it kills without effect connected the planetary stage,” the inaugural declared.