John Legend on Palestinian rights: 'It's a baseline human position'

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Singer John Legend has not been quiet about his support of the Palestinian people. And this week, he once again advocated for their human rights, saying: "Clearly it's wrong what is happening to the Palestinians, it's so obvious. Anyone who doesn't believe that is the case is being wilfully blind, I believe."

"John, you're one of the few celebrities – actual A-listers ... who has linked the fight for human rights, civil liberties, the fight against detention [and] mass incarceration here at home [in the US] to what's been going on in the occupied Palestinian territories," host Mehdi Hasan asked him. "How did you come to that position?"

"I just feel like that's a baseline human position," Legend replied. "There should not be a whole group of people in a county, because of their nationality or religion, being held in open-air prisons, denied freedom of movement and having their land annexed by settlers ... that's just a human position. [But] I'm not an expert in this area."

"You are one of the few very, very famous people to have spoken out about it," Hasan interjected. To which the singer replied: "I think, as someone who is observing what's going on, and saying 'This is right,' or 'This is wrong', clearly it's wrong what is happening to the Palestinians, it's so obvious."

https://www.thenational.ae/arts-culture/music/john-legend-speaks-on-palestinian-rights-it-s-a-baseline-human-position-1.981820

 

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Woke king 

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It is truly scary how this is basic common sense and how somehow that still didn't help matters along for, like, decades

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We love an EGOT winner