Dear Bruno Mars

Dear Bruno Mars,
On October 4, 2023, you held a show in occupied Palestine (Israel), despite being educated by the Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) about the dehumanising and systematic violations of Palestinian human rights prevalent in the country. You ignored requests by JVP to not perform in Israel as a show of protest against the treatment of Palestinians there. Instead, during your concert in Tel Aviv, you declared your undying love for a country that you  KNEW is brutalising millions of your fellow human beings simply because they are of a different ethnicity or religion.

Dear Bruno Mars,
Nine months into the ongoing genocide in Gaza that has killed almost 38,000 innocent and defenceless Palestinians, including about 15,000 children and 10,000 women, you still have not said a single word about this atrocity conducted by Israel. You either do not care about the genocide, or you fully support it.

Dear Bruno Mars,
If you truly believe in the things you sing about, then you must immediately condemn the ongoing genocide now taking place in Gaza. This is the only way to be on the right side of humanity and international law.

Dear Bruno Mars,
Your continuing silence will prove to the world at large that you are a genocide supporter, and we hereby want to make it known to you that genocide-loving Zionists and their supporters are not welcome in Malaysia.

Dear Bruno Mars,
Please don’t come to Malaysia until you change your mind and stop being a staunch supporter of the apartheid regime of Israel.

4 July 2024