JERUSALEM (JTA) – Jon Bon Jovi said at his first-ever concert in Israel that “I’ll come here any time you want.” In an apparent swipe at the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, Bon Jovi made the vow at the end of his performance on Saturday night in Tel Aviv before tens of thousands of fans. “We’re finally here. It took me long enough,” the American rock star said during the concert. He dedicated a new song, “We Don’t Run,” released during the summer, to Israelis. The concert opened less than an hour after a stabbing attack in Jerusalem left two Jewish-Israeli men dead.

Bon Jovi came under pressure from the BDS movement, most notably from Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters, to cancel the concert. In an open letter published in Salon just prior ot the concern, Waters accused the singer of standing “shoulder to shoulder with the settler who burned the baby,” referring to the arsonists, thought to be Jewish extremists, who firebombed a Palestinian home in August, killing a toddler and his parents — an act condemned by Israel’s leaders. The letter makes no mention of any Palestinian terrorist attacks or Israeli terror victims, including the two parents killed in an attack on Oct. 1.