{"id":2068325,"date":"2025-10-04T07:02:31","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T07:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2068325"},"modified":"2025-10-04T07:02:31","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T07:02:31","slug":"lorde-off-apple-music-in-israel-after-free-f-king-palestine-at-nyc-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/lorde-off-apple-music-in-israel-after-free-f-king-palestine-at-nyc-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Lorde off Apple Music in Israel after ‘free f–king Palestine’ at NYC show"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Lorde\u2019s songs have disappeared from Apple Music in Israel after the New Zealand-born pop star yelled \u201cfree f\u2013king Palestine\u201d during a concert in New York City this week.<\/p>\n

The kerfuffle was ignited by viral clips that showed the 28-year-old Lorde performing her hit song \u201cTeam\u201d during a show at Madison Square Garden on Wednesday.<\/a><\/p>\n

As she prepared to belt out the chorus<\/a>, Lorde exclaimed, \u201cfree f\u2014ing Palestine!\u201d<\/p>\n

Lorde\u2019s songs have disappeared from Apple Music in Israel after the New Zealand-born pop star yelled \u201cfree f\u2013king Palestine\u201d during a concert. WireImage<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The stage lighting alternated between red, green, white and black \u2014 the colors of the flag representing the Palestine Liberation Organization.<\/p>\n

Visitors to the Apple Music streaming service Israel were unable to access Lorde\u2019s library of songs as of Thursday, according to a report in the Hebrew-language web site Ynet.<\/a><\/p>\n

Her songs were still available on Apple Music in the US as of Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n

The Post has asked Apple whether it or another entity pulled Lorde\u2019s songs in Israel, and whether the removal was done with the US-based corporate office\u2019s blessing.<\/p>\n

Lorde performed to a sold-out crowd at Madison Square Garden on Wednesday. x\/abierkhatib<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Post has also sought comment from Lorde.<\/p>\n

The artists is reportedly a signatory to the \u201cNo Music for Genocide\u201d<\/a> boycott, in which hundreds of artists have pledged to \u201cgeo-block\u201d their songs from streaming in Israel.<\/p>\n

Lorde\u2019s tunes remain available to Israel\u2019s Spotify subscribers, according to Ynet.<\/p>\n

The singer was in New York this week for a sold-out show at MSG<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The pop star is currently in the midst of her \u201cUltrasound World Tour\u201d to promote her latest album, \u201cVirgin.\u201d<\/p>\n

While performing the hit song \u201cTeam,\u201d she exclaimed, \u201cFree f\u2013king Palestine.\u201d x\/abierkhatib<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
The stage was colored in lights that matched the Palestinian Liberation Organization\u2019s flag. x\/abierkhatib<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Kiwi pop star has waded into the sensitive Israel-Palestine conflict in years past.<\/p>\n

In 2017, she cancelled a planned concert in Tel Aviv under pressure from activists who backed the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement.<\/p>\n

BDS proponents have urged artists to take part in a cultural boycott of Israel.<\/p>\n

Supporters of Israel have denounced BDS as an antisemitic movement that singles out the Jewish state for criticism.<\/p>\n

Apple has historically declined to take a position on the Israel-Palestine conflict despite pressure from pro-Palestinian activists who have demanded that the tech giant sever ties with Israel.<\/p>\n

It is unclear if Apple\u2019s corporate headquarters in the US signed off on the move to block Lorde in Israel. AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The iPhone maker has a significant presence in Israel, which has a robust tech and startup ecosystem.<\/p>\n

Other Silicon Valley companies have been the subject of protests by employees and activists over commercial ties to Israel\u2019s military.<\/p>\n

Microsoft recently sought assistance from the FBI after pro-Palestinian employees and activists staged a kayak-based protest<\/a> near the lakefront homes of its top two executives.<\/p>\n

Google workers have held demos at company events where they have denounced the tech giant\u2019s work on Project Nimbus, a cloud-computer project that provides technology to the Israeli military.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lorde\u2019s songs have disappeared from Apple Music in Israel after the New Zealand-born pop star yelled \u201cfree f\u2013king Palestine\u201d during a concert in New York City this week. The kerfuffle was ignited by viral clips that showed the 28-year-old Lorde performing her hit song \u201cTeam\u201d during a show at Madison Square Garden on Wednesday. As […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2068326,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[21796,308806,354938,306299,346395,24751],"class_list":["post-2068325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-business","tag-israel","tag-lorde","tag-madison-square-garden","tag-palestine","tag-tech"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Lorde-off-Apple-Music-in-Israel-after-free-f-king-Palestine.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2068325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2068325"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2068325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2068327,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2068325\/revisions\/2068327"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2068326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2068325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2068325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2068325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}