(Jerusalem Post) Jonny Paul - Last week, five anti-Israel protesters interrupted a performance by the Jerusalem Quartet at Wigmore Hall in London, shouting abuse at the musicians as the concert was broadcast live on BBC radio. In a statement, the Quartet said: "The demonstrators were ignorant of the fact that two of us are regular members of Daniel Barenboim's West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, composed of Israeli and Arab musicians....It is destructive of our attempts to foster Israel-Arab relations for us to be the subject of demonstrations of the kind we suffered yesterday." "We no more represent the government of Israel than the audience at the Wigmore Hall represented the government of the UK."
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