Lider formacji Pink Floyd, legendarna gwiazda muzyki rockowej - Roger Waters, wezwał australijskiego rockmana Nicka Cavez formacji "Bad Seeds" - do odwołania, zaplanowanych na listopad tego roku, koncertów w Izraelu - w ramach promowanego przez Watersa bojkotu Izraela na płaszczyźnie kultury.
Waters podpisał list wespół z 25 innymi innymi celebrytami, w którym napisano - między innymi:

"Nie przybywajcie do Izraela - dopóki w tym kraju obowiązuje polityka apartheidu. Pozostancie wierni swojemu popraciu dla tych, którzy sprzeciwli się izraelskiemu atakowi na Gazę. Pozostancie wierni wolności".

Zainteresowanych problemem, zachęcam do lektury podlinkowanego tekstu - przy stosownej do tematu muzyce Pink Floyd (www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvPpAPIIZyo)



"Australian rock star Nick Cave is facing renewed calls to cancel his November concerts in Israel, with Roger Waters among the signatories of an open letter posted Monday on the Artists for Palestine U.K. website.
In a letter to Cave and his band the Bad Seeds, signed by some 25 artists, academics and political activists, the activists write: “Don’t go – not while apartheid remains. Stand true to your support for those who opposed Israel’s attacks on Gaza. Stand for freedom.” Others signatories include British filmmakers Ken Loach and Mike Leigh, actor Julie Christie and musician Thurston Moore.

Waters, who is well-known for his boycott, divestment and sanctions activities and calls for a cultural boycott of Israel, also wrote his own personal message on the website about the performances by Cave and Canadian singer Bryan Adams.
“I wonder if Nick and Bryan and Thom Yorke and the rest of these guys were to spend even a day or two in administrative detention [without charge or trial], or even once have their kids woken and arrested in the middle of the night, or, or, or ... whether they would still ignore the screams of the victims and the desperate pleas for help from Palestinian civil society, whether they would still cross the picket line,” he wrote."


www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.820169