page_title: Daniel Barenboim
section_title: Political views
hierarchical_section_title: Daniel Barenboim / Political views
caption_attribution_description: Español: Ensayo de la orquesta del Diván Este-Oeste 2005. Bajo la dirección de Daniel Barenboim, se ensaya la Primera sinfonía, «Titán» de Gustav Mahler (4º movimiento, Stürmisch bewegt). Pilas (Sevilla), 25 de julio de 2005. English: West-East Divan Rehearse. Under the lead of Daniel Barenboim, in Pilas, Sevilla, Spain, 07-25-2005. العربية: أوركيسترا الديوان الغربي الشرقي التي أسسها إدوارد سعيد عام 1999. الفرقة في الصورة تحت قيادة عازف البيانو الأرجنتيني دانييل بارينبويم في سيفيلا، أسبانيا.
context_page_description: Daniel Barenboim, KBE is a pianist and conductor who is a citizen of Argentina, Israel, Palestine, and Spain.
  The current general music director of the Berlin State Opera and the Staatskapelle Berlin, Barenboim previously served as Music Director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre de Paris and La Scala in Milan. Barenboim is known for his work with the West–Eastern Divan Orchestra, a Seville-based orchestra of young Arab and Israeli musicians, and as a resolute critic of the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories.
  Barenboim has received many awards and prizes, including seven Grammy awards, an honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire, France's Légion d'honneur both as a Commander and Grand Officier, and the German Großes Bundesverdienstkreuz mit Stern und Schulterband. Together with the Palestinian-American scholar Edward Said, he was given Spain's Prince of Asturias Concord Award. Barenboim is a polyglot, fluent in Spanish, Hebrew, English, French, Italian, and German. A self-described Spinozist, he is significantly influenced by Spinoza's life and thought.
context_section_description: Barenboim, a supporter of human rights, including Palestinian rights, is an outspoken critic of Israel's conservative governments and the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories. In an interview with the British music critic Norman Lebrecht in 2003, Barenboim accused Israel of behaving in a manner that was "morally abhorrent and strategically wrong" and "putting in danger the very existence of the state of Israel". In 1967, at the start of the Six-Day War, Barenboim and du Pré had performed for the Israeli troops on the front lines, as well as during the Yom Kippur War in 1973. During the Gulf War, he and an orchestra performed in Israel in gas masks.
  Barenboim has argued publicly for a Two-state solution for Israelis and Palestinians. In a November 2014 opinion piece in The Guardian, he wrote that the "ongoing security of the state of Israel ... is only possible in the long term if the future of the Palestinian people, too, is secured in its own sovereign state. If this does not happen, the wars and history of that region will be constantly repeated and the unbearable stalemate will continue."
caption: Rehearsal of the West–Eastern Divan under the lead of Daniel Barenboim, 2005
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