Manufactured "Israeli-Palestinian" boy band is in really poor taste

'as1one' is a brand new manufactured boy band comprised of six young men from Israel, which conveniently (and strategically) includes a Palestinian Christian from Haifa and a Bedouin Muslim from Rahat.

The team behind as1one, led by longtime music executives Ken Levitan and James Diener, envisioned a Middle Eastern version of BTS, and in the effort to create it, Israeli and Palestinian casting directors had held auditions in major cities and tiny villages throughout Israel in 2021.

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