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Dua Lipa parts ways with Jewish ‘advisor’ who signed letter urging Glastonbury to drop Kneecap
The pop star is an outspoken supporter of the Palestinian cause
September 22, 2025 11:58
The pop star is an outspoken supporter of the Palestinian cause
September 22, 2025 11:58Dua Lipa has reportedly stopped working her long-time agent, David Levy, after he signed a letter urging Glastonbury founder Michael Eavis and his daughter Emily to drop Irish rap trio Kneecap from the festival line-up this summer.
“Dua made sure through her people that David Levy wasn't working on her music anymore. She is very openly pro-Palestine and that doesn't align with David,” a music industry source told The Mail on Sunday.
“She views him as being a supporter of Israel's war in Gaza, and the terrible treatment of the Palestinians and that was made very clear through the letter that he signed and sent to Michael Eavis.”
Lipa’s team denied that Levy left the team over political differences, saying he has not acted as her agent since 2019, and the singer herself accused the Mail of “clickbait”.
A spokesperson for Lipa said: “Reports suggesting that Dua Lipa or her management dismissed one of our agents because of his political views are categorically false.
“David Levy played a role in Dua’s early career (2016-2019) and as is customary, is credited both internally and in industry journals as being a member of the team.
“When he moved out of London in 2019, he transitioned into an advisory role and has not been involved in Dua’s day-to-day business since. Levy fully removed himself from the project among others earlier this year.”
Lipa has long been an outspoken supporter of the Palestinian cause. In May this year she was one of more than 300 celebrities to sign an open letter calling on Prime Minister Keir Starmer to end UK "complicity” in the Gaza war.
The statement, penned by Choose Love, a nonprofit organisation supporting refugees and displaced people globally, called on the government to immediately suspend all UK arms sales and licences to Israel; ensure humanitarian access across Gaza for aid organisations without military interference; broker an immediate ceasefire and “stop the starvation”.
In 2020 the singer was criticised after sharing an Instagram post that referred to members of the Israeli government as “fake Jewish ppl [people]”.
Making comparisons between the murder of American George Floyd and the plight of Palestinians, the post read: “The government [for] which they hold no right to vote, a government which suffocates them socially, economically, and of course physically.
“Yet, the only ‘justification’ as to why they don’t deserve freedom is because ‘Hamas calls for the destruction of Israel.’
“Which is utterly HYSTERICAL [because] the United States (fake Christians in the mid west) and Israel (fake Jewish ppl [people] in the Israeli government) created Hamas SIMPLY for all of you geniuses to believe that hamas [sic] is the reasons for the decades worth of occupation, oppression, ethnic cleansing, and MURDER.”
The post later added: “To my dear Jewish friends and family, I love you all. This has NOTHING to do with you or religion, and all to do with justice and freedom.”
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