(Nov. 1, 2026 \/ JNS)\n <\/p>\n
Indonesian protesters on Saturday demonstrated against a concert by the famed Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli due to his support for Israel.<\/p>\n
The move came after Indonesia\u2019s top Islamic council urged the government last month to cancel two planned concerts by the Italian tenor in the Southeast Asian country as part of a world tour.<\/p>\n
The event at the UNESCO-listed Borobudur Temple in Indonesia\u2019s Central Java\u2019s Magelang city went ahead as scheduled. A second concert is scheduled for Tuesday in Jakarta.<\/p>\n
Public sympathy for Palestinians is widespread in the world\u2019s most populous Muslim-majority nation, which does not have formal diplomatic relations with Israel.<\/p>\n
Last month, anti-Israel groups in Jordan also called for a boycott of Bocelli\u2019s November 27 concert in the ancient Jordanian city of Petra.<\/p>\n
Bocelli, 68, who has a long history of support for Israel, performed at a concert in Tel Aviv in 2022 and sang at a 2010 fundraiser in Los Angeles for Friends of the IDF, an organization supporting the Israeli military.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Nov. 1, 2026 \/ JNS) Indonesian protesters on Saturday demonstrated against a concert by the famed Italian tenor…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":663684,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":["post-663683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=663683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/663684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}