The Pixies have pulled out of a planned performance at the Pic.Nic festival in Tel Aviv, Israel, along with Gorillaz and the Klaxons. The band didn’t cite a reason, but said they were cancelling their first appearance in the country ‘with great regret’. They are the latest in a growing list of artists to cancel performances after Israel’s raid on a convoy of boats off the Israeli coast last week which killed a number of pro-Palestinian activists.

These cancellations follow a high profile boycott of the country by Elvis Costello in solidarity with the Palestinian people.

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