Israeli singer Noa. Photo: Wikimedia commons.

JTA – Left-wing parties from the Spanish autonomous region of Galicia are demanding their local government launch a boycott of Israel by canceling a concert by Israeli singer and peace activist Noa, also known as Achinoam Nini.

In a statement published Saturday on Facebook, the education and culture council of the Galician Left Alternative — a coalition of parties that united last year to form the Galician parliament’s third largest bloc — “condemned the employment of the Israeli singer Noa, whose sympathies to military Zionism are notorious.”

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