Musician Steven Van Zandt faced backlash and accusations of hypocrisy after a pro-Israel rant in which he got basic facts wrong about the Israel-Palestine conflict. Van Zandt, a veteran member of Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band and longtime activist who previously supported the boycott movement against South Africa and now supports a boycott of North Carolina, called supporters of the similar boycott movement against Israel “politically ignorant obnoxious idiots.” At the same moment, Van Zandt insisted “the problems there have existed for a thousand years.” In reality, however, the problems in Israel-Palestine have not even existed for a hundred years.