You stood up for your South African brothers and sisters in the 90s, why would you ignore your Palestinian brothers and sisters in the 2010s? In the 60s it was Jim Crow America, in the 80s and 90s it was Apartheid South Africa, now it is Lawless Apartheid Israel. But in the fight for human rights we have to make our stand where and when we can. 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, 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.Īnd before all the self justification starts, yes, of course other countries have bad records on human rights, not least the USA. Today, in addition to a statement from Artists for Palestine UK, we are publishing a number responses to Cave’s comments from individual artists.Īsked about the recent decision by artists Nick Cave, Bryan Adams and Thom Yorke to either cross the picket line called for by Palestinian civil society, or announce their intention to do so, Roger Waters has told Artists for Palestine UK: One is that I love Israel and I love Israeli people, and two is to make a principled stand against anyone who tries to censor and silence musicians.
At the end of the day, there’s maybe two reasons why I’m here. “So after a lot of thought and consideration I rang up my people and said, ‘We’re doing an European tour and Israel.’ Because it suddenly became very important to me to make a stand against those people who are trying to shut down musicians, to bully musicians, to censor musicians, and to silence musicians. “There was something that stunk to me about that list.” “On a very intuitive level, did not want to sign it,” he said. According to the NME: ‘ The musician explained that his change in attitude came about when Brian Eno asked him to a sign a list called Artists For Palestine three years ago. Nick Cave has held a press conference in Israel, in which he explained he ‘decided to play in Israel to stand up to ‘anyone who tries to censor and silence musicians’.
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