19-05-2025
Why I'm happy to DJ at Brockwell Park's Mighty Hoopla festival campaigners want everyone to boycott
Influential BDS campaigners such as the clubbing-centric Ravers For Palestine have been campaigning that KKR-affiliated events are a red flag over ties to companies involved in the development of Israeli settlements on the West Bank. They also reportedly have stakes in weapons manufacturing companies such as Circor International, as well as the controversial Coastal GasLink pipeline in Canada. Some artists have pulled out of Superstruct's events, while privately loads more are anxiously working out what to do. But despite Hoopla publicly disagreeing with their owner's 'unethical investments' in a statement on Friday, any artistic engagement with a KKR-related company still means you are on the wrong side of the issue, on a BDS level.
