Roger Waters responds to Nick Cave criticising his BDS stance: “It’s not complicated, Nick”
nme.comRoger Waters has responded to Nick Cave criticising his stance on an Israel boycott, telling him “it’s not complicated.”In an episode published on Wednesday (August 28) of the Reason podcast, which Cave guested, he said Roger Waters’ support of the BDS movement is “embarrassing” and “deeply damaging.”In an Instagram reel posted to his 1.3million followers, the Pink Floyd co-founder explained that the Independent ran a piece about Cave’s statements and reached out to him for a comment. “Let’s see if they fucking publish it or not,” Waters said in the video, and read his comment aloud.He said, in part: “Dear Independent, here is my response to the Aussie bloke.
Nick Cave. Nick fucking Cave. The Palestinian mother/father carrying the bits of her or his dead child back along the bitter road to nowhere in a plastic bag pauses on the roadside to scratch a message in the rubble.
Nick, here’s the message.“Dear Nick Cave, we, the Indigenous people of Palestine, in this agony, implore you, please don’t cross the BDS picket line to sing for your supper in Israel.
It’s not complicated, Nick. It’s not complicated.“That act — singing for your supper in Israel, Nick — that act serves to whitewash the 75-year-old Zionist Israeli occupation, land theft, apartheid, and genocide of our people, Nick.
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