Discussion on Hotel Bans and Israel Criticism

It is. It got so intense,

at one point I was reading that you couldn't,

you were banned from certain hotels because the hotel... Yeah. Is that true?

Yes. Yeah. That didn't start happening until 2023,

which was the last big tour I did.

And both in Europe and in South America particularly,

I couldn't find a hotel to stay anywhere in Buenos Aires,

or in Colombia, or in Ecuador.

In Ecuador? Yeah.

Well, it had just

been taken over by Naboa, who, as we know, is a gangster from Miami.

So he's... who knows what his issues are.

You couldn't stay in a hotel in Ecuador,

Colombia, or Argentina because you criticized Israel? Yes.

Oh, Uruguay. Montevideo. I couldn't stay in Montevideo.

We did actually stay in a hotel in Quito in Ecuador for one night,

but they had to pretend I wasn't there.

You couldn't make it up, could you? That's a long way from Israel.

What is Quito,

Ecuador, or Montevideo, Uruguay, or BA have to do with Israel?

There's an Israeli lobby that is very organized

in all of those places, and there may well be in other cities in the world as well.

Certainly, yeah, certainly in many other cities.

Frankfurt. They tried to cancel my gig in Frankfurt.

They did cancel my gig in Krakow, in Poland, in 2023. On what grounds?

On the grounds that they wanted to cancel me.

Because I was critical of the apartheid, of the genocide.

Because I'm against genocide, and they're not. They're in favor of it.

That's why they're all quiet, they're silent.

They all keep silent, they close their mouths.

You know, they won't

speak because they know that they'll get the treatment that I get if they

open their mouths. There is a very powerful lobby.

And it wants Israel to go on being a genocidal apartheid state.

And to expand and to take over Lebanon and Syria and Jordan

and greater Israel.

It's the whole, it's the plan.