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Paul Weller is suing his erstwhile accountants aft they stopped moving with him aft helium alleged Israel was committing genocide successful Gaza, according to a ineligible letter.
The erstwhile frontman of The Jam, 67, has filed a favoritism assertion against Harris and Trotter aft the steadfast ended their nonrecreational relationship.
Lawyers for Weller accidental the singer-songwriter was told successful March that the accountants and taxation advisers would nary longer enactment with him oregon his companies.
According to the letter, which was seen by the PA quality agency, a WhatsApp connection from a spouse astatine the steadfast said: "It's good known what your governmental views are successful narration to Israel, the Palestinians and Gaza, but we arsenic a steadfast are offended astatine the assertions that Israel is committing immoderate benignant of genocide.
"Everyone is entitled to their ain views, but you are alleging specified anti-Israel views that we arsenic a steadfast with Jewish roots and galore Jewish partners are not prepared to enactment with idiosyncratic who holds these views."
Israel has vehemently denied claims of genocide.
But lawyers for Weller assertion by ending their services, the steadfast unlawfully discriminated against the singer's protected philosophical beliefs, including that Israel is committing genocide successful Gaza and Palestine should beryllium recognised arsenic a federation state.
Weller said: "I've ever spoken retired against injustice, whether it's apartheid, taste cleansing, oregon genocide. What's happening to the Palestinian radical successful Gaza is simply a humanitarian catastrophe.
"I judge they person the close to self-determination, dignity, and extortion nether planetary law, and I judge Israel is committing genocide against them. That indispensable beryllium called out.
"Silencing those who talk this information is not conscionable censorship - it's complicity.
"I'm taking ineligible enactment not conscionable for myself, but to assistance guarantee that others are not likewise punished for expressing their beliefs astir the rights of the Palestinian people."
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The ineligible missive says Weller volition donate immoderate damages helium receives to humanitarian alleviation efforts successful Gaza.
Cormac McDonough, a lawyer astatine Hodge Jones and Allen, which is representing Weller, said his lawsuit "reflects a wider signifier of attempts to soundlessness artists and nationalist figures who talk retired successful enactment of Palestinian rights".
Mr McDonough added: "Within the euphony manufacture especially, we are seeing expanding efforts to marginalise those who explicit solidarity with the radical of Gaza."
Sky News has contacted Harris and Trotter for comment.
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