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In 1997, Sinead O'Connor cancelled a performance in Jerusalem after receiving death threats from Israeli extremists. Itamar Ben-Gvir - a Jewish hardliner who now sits as Israel's National Security Minister - celebrated the move as a 'success'.
The Irish singer, who died this week, was targeted by an extremist Israeli harassment campaign in 1997.
Irish singer who died Wednesday wrote to the far-right activist, who was 21 at the time, after he took credit for canceling her concert in Jerusalem
'It’s the Only Place I’ve Ever Been That I Never Wanted to Go Back To. Consequentially for the Last 25 Years Whenever Anything About Israel Came on the News, I’d Literally Turn It Off' She Told the Dublin-based Site Hot Press in 1995
When death threats forced Irish pop singer Sinead O’Connor to call off a peace concert in Jerusalem in the summer of 1997, a young man named Itamar Ben-Gvir took credit for the campaign against her.