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His spokesperson said performing would violate his status as a UN "Messenger of Peace." FIDF organizers had no comment. Nor did Wonder's Creative Artists Agency.
He was pressured to pull out. A petition urging he cancel got over 4,000 signatures in short order. It said:
"You were arrested in 1985 protesting South African Apartheid. Now we ask you: please remember that apartheid is apartheid, whether it comes from White Afrikaner settlers of South Africa or from Jewish Israelis in Israel.""Desmond Tutu has recognized that Israel's Apartheid is worse than South Africa's. Will you stand with us against apartheid and cancel your performance at the IDF fundraiser."
The US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation launched a separate petition . It urged Wonder to "please continue your legacy of speaking out for the oppressed."
"Please be a 'full-time lover' of justice by standing on the right side of history and canceling your performance for the Israeli army.""Today, the Israeli army is enforcing a system that South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu has deemed even worse than Apartheid in South Africa."
"Fifteen years ago this week, Nelson Mandela said himself: 'we know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians".' "
"Three years ago, you were designated a Messenger of Peace by the UN. November 29th, one week before your scheduled performance, is the United Nations International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People."
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