Sinéad O’Connor, RIP Answer

07/30/2023

B. O’Connor was scheduled to perform in a peace concert arranged by Israeli and Palestinian women’s groups in Jerusalem in 1997 at a festival called “Two Capitals, Two States,” but she canceled after receiving death threats from members of (now Israeli Minister of National Security) Itamar Ben-Gvir’s Kahanist organization The Ideological Front.

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C. Sinéad O’Connor named one of her sons Ne’viim, the Hebrew word for “prophets.”

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