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Charlotte Church has claimed that the police have checked on her after she obtained threats from ‘fairly scary individuals’ after she sang ‘from the river to the ocean’ throughout pro-Palestine protests.
The 38-year-old singer sparked outrage after footage emerged of her singing the controversial chant – which many view as being a direct name for the state of Israel to be destroyed.
Jewish marketing campaign teams have described the mantra as ‘genocidal’, however Church has insisted that she was ‘on no account anti-Semitic’.
The 38-year-old mentioned she ‘is just not, has by no means been, and can by no means be an antisemite’, including: ‘I maintain the Jewish individuals in my life very dearly, and have at all times saved nice reverence for Judaism and Jewish tradition, since travelling round Israel and Palestine as an adolescent.
On Saturday, Church, from Cardiff, marched alongside hundreds of protesters in central London calling for a right away ceasefire in Gaza.
Charlotte Church, Welsh singer and actress speaks throughout ‘the Nationwide March For Palestine’ protest in central London on Saturday
Charlotte Church, pictured in inexperienced, led a 100-strong pro-Palestine choir that includes youngsters in singing the ‘anti-Semitic’ music From The River to Sea final month
The Palestine Solidarity Marketing campaign (PSC) organised the protest, following Hamas’s assault on southern Israel on October 7 wherein about 1,200 individuals have been killed and greater than 240 kidnapped earlier than Israel retaliated with months of assaults on the Gaza Strip, killing and wounding hundreds.
In late February, at a Sing For Palestine fundraising occasion in Wales, Church led a rendition of From The River To The Sea, which the Marketing campaign In opposition to Antisemitism known as a ‘genocidal chant’.
In a press release on her web site, she mentioned: ‘I’ve been known as many issues in my time, however not till this week have I obtained a lot imaginative and violent hate. I’ve by no means earlier than been known as ‘traitor’.
‘The threats to my security have resulted within the police coming spherical to test in on us.’
She added: ‘My security and the protection of my household has been threatened by some fairly scary individuals, emboldened by the rhetoric of frontline politicians, in addition to cravenly irresponsible protection by liberal legacy media retailers.’
Defending her efficiency of From The River To The Sea on the occasion to boost cash for a brand new ambulance for Gaza’s Al Awda hospital, she mentioned: ‘I don’t consider that the phrase ‘from the river to the ocean’ is in any manner a name for the ethnic cleaning or genocide of Israelis, and positively, when I’ve used it or heard it utilized by different individuals, it has at all times been as a name for the liberation of Palestine (i.e. essentially the most face-value interpretation).
‘Typically it’s accompanied by the phrase ‘… we’re all Palestinians’.
‘A name for one group’s liberation doesn’t indicate one other’s destruction, and people suggesting that it does, when it’s actually that first group who’re presently being murdered of their hundreds, are leveraging a grotesque irony. I can’t have my rhetoric round resistance and solidarity redefined by those that most violently oppose my democratic engagement.’
She added: ‘At this level it turns into crucial for me to state that I don’t assist Hamas and condemn them for the assault on October seventh.
The 38-year-old was seen posing for photographs after the live performance, wherein she sang the tune ‘Cease the Occupation’
Charlotte Church hit again at criticism and insisted she is ‘not anti-Semitic’
Church was seen singing protest music ‘from the river to the ocean’ at a pro-Palestine rally in Wales final month
The choir held up an indication saying ‘Let Gaza Dwell’ in the course of the occasion held at Bedwas Workman’s Corridor
Footage was shared on-line of the efficiency involving many youngsters
Church, who began out as a classical singer at simply ten, has shifted her focus to politics in recent times, supporting the Labour celebration and causes comparable to remaining within the EU and Welsh independence
‘While it’s tough to know the complete fact of what occurred that day – and hopefully with the fullness of time we can have a greater perspective on this – there have been undoubtedly conflict crimes dedicated, appalling acts, together with the bloodbath of harmless civilians and hostage-taking.
‘My coronary heart goes out to the victims of that assault, the hostages, and their households.
‘None of that justifies the horrors which were inflicted upon the Palestinian individuals since that day.’
The Marketing campaign In opposition to Antisemitism has accused Church of encouraging hatred and known as for the Charity Fee to research the incident.
