It's a sensitive subject and I'm not going to pretend I have enough of a stake in it to have real value to add. As a very general statement, I'm hesitant to judge artists for performing in areas with problematic political and human rights decisions. I certainly will laud an artist making a statement on not performing in a place due to it, but there's a lot of musicians who have played questionable locales either in foreign markets or domestically (I mean...have you seen what Texas and Florida are doing to disadvantaged populations recently?) - especially when it's a real opportunity to earn an income to produce art and music for a wider population. In the case of Big Thief, one of their band members resided there, and I'm not even gonna pretend to say I'd know how it'd feel if I moved to the UK and my bandmates refused to let me play in my home country because of the U.S.' atrocities.
Like, even just sticking to Israel, we have the RHCP, Justin Bieber, 50 Cent, Maroon 5, and the Black Eyed Peas doing concerts there in 2021-2023. Go back over 5 years you got a huge range: Jon Bon Jovi, Distrubed, Eurovision on the whole, Brian Wilson, Ozzy Osbourne, Herbie Hancock, Shakira, Alice in Chains, etc.
I dunno, there's no real good answer here for me - I do know there's a gap for me between what Big Thief is doing (performing in the home country of a band member and donating proceeds of the show elsewhere) and what, say,
a slew of pop stars playing shows for Russian oligarchs did.