"Political or not political, when you stand up on that stage in Tel Aviv, you line yourself up with a racist state... You're behaving as if playing in Israel is morally neutral - but how can it be?" wrote a group of British academics in an open letter to Elton John on Monday. The group, the British Committee for Universities of Palestine, seek to convince the singer to cancel his upcoming performance in Israel this June.

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