{"id":12065,"date":"2023-10-16T15:38:47","date_gmt":"2023-10-16T15:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/?p=12065"},"modified":"2023-10-16T15:38:47","modified_gmt":"2023-10-16T15:38:47","slug":"daniel-barenboim-calls-peace-middle-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/2023\/10\/16\/daniel-barenboim-calls-peace-middle-east\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Barenboim Calls for Peace in the Middle East"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_12066\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12066\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12066\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/10\/Daniel-Barenboim.jpg\" alt=\"Daniel Barenboim \" width=\"1200\" height=\"628\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/10\/Daniel-Barenboim.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/10\/Daniel-Barenboim-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/10\/Daniel-Barenboim-1024x536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/10\/Daniel-Barenboim-768x402.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12066\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Daniel Barenboim Decca Classics<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The conductor and founder of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra calls for peace.<\/p>\n<p>Following Hamas\u2019 terror attack on Israel and the beginning of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/middleeast\/live-news\/israel-news-hamas-war-10-13-23\/index.html\">Israel-Hamas war<\/a>, conductor Daniel Barenboim issued a statement to his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CyOmgfMspXt\/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==\">social media<\/a>. Barenboim expressed horror, sadness and condemnation of Hamas\u2019 brutal attack on Israel. He also expressed his wish for peace and an end to military action, saying that Israel\u2019s retaliatory siege on Gaza would constitute a violation of human rights.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Refresher:<\/strong> Though born in Argentina, the conductor and pianist Daniel Barenboim moved to Israel with his family when he was 10. In 1999, he co-founded the <a href=\"https:\/\/west-eastern-divan.org\/\">West-Eastern Divan Orchestra<\/a> with the Palestinian public intellectual and writer, Edward Said. The orchestra has promoted peace between Israel and Palestine by bringing together musicians from countries throughout the Middle East. Said and Barenboim also founded the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.barenboimsaid.de\/en\">Barenboim-Said Akademie<\/a> in Berlin in 2015 with the same principles.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why It Matters:<\/strong> Barenboim, who is Jewish, was the first person to hold both Israeli and Palestinian citizenships simultaneously. He is known for his nuanced engagement with antisemitism and politics through his conducting of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2001\/jul\/09\/ewenmacaskill\">Wagner in Israel<\/a>, as well as his peace initiatives. In June 1967, he and his then-fianc\u00e9 Jacqueline du Pr\u00e9 performed around Israel before and during the Six-Day War, demonstrating their solidarity with the people of Israel during another time of horror.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conductor and founder of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim, calls for peace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":12066,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[86,196,25,3],"tags":[43],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/10\/Daniel-Barenboim.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12065"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12065"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12067,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12065\/revisions\/12067"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12065"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=12065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}