Sir, – While I agree with Peter Crawley that “[a]nything’s better than doing nothing about Gaza” (Culture, August 9th), I detect a desire on his part to suggest that charity events like the Liberty 4 Gaza fundraising concert and an initiative like the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign’s “Artists’ Pledge to Boycott Israel” are somehow mutually exclusive. On the contrary, they complement one another; the IPSC fully supported the fundraising gig, and many artistes performing in it are signatories of the pledge.
The latter campaign was launched on August 12th, 2010 with 140 signatories and celebrated (if that’s the right word) its fourth anniversary with over 460. Almost half of these have signed up since the inception of Israel’s latest campaign of death and destruction in Gaza. – Yours, etc,
RAYMOND DEANE,
Lower Baggot Street,
Dublin 2