In response, though, he said: "I'm constantly asked why not do a Live Aid for Palestine… But the thing is pop music doesn't do that anymore.
"Pop music back then was the spine of society, it defined what we were and where we could go. That's being supplemented by social media these days so a concert wouldn't work."
Geldof also suggested that, while the original Live Aid had a practical goal in terms of supporting humanitarian efforts in Ethiopia, a new version for Gaza would not be effective in ending the war that is the root of the issues in the Strip.
He went on: "The point about a concert is you need to posit and end that's achievable. The end to Palestine, my answer always is, is the two-state solution.”
Geldof's Jewish links come from his grandmother, Amelia Falk, who was a British Jew. He has never put too much emphasis on his Jewishness in public life, though.
Indeed, he once said: “I was a quarter Catholic, a quarter Protestant, a quarter Jewish and a quarter nothing...The nothing won.”
