Posted on 10/08/2024 11:20:03 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Cave claimed Water's attitude towards an Israel boycott is "deeply damaging" and "embarrassing"
Roger 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 XXXX 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 XXXX 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. Please, please, please follow the example of Roger Waters and Brian Eno and many, many thousands of others who are active in the BDS movement. Nick, pay attention.” Watch the full clip below.
Waters, now 80, has been a supporter of the boycott (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions or BDS) movement since 2011.
In 2018, Waters and Brian Eno were among the prominent figures advocating for a boycott of the Eurovision Song Contest, which was held in Tel Aviv that year, as they reiterated their support for the movement. Cave also criticised Eno in the Reason podcast episode.
Throughout the summer musicians and bands have been boycotting some festivals over their ties with Israel. Four bands to pulled out of Download 2024 over its sponsorship with Barclays and the bank’s ties to Israel.
In May over a quarter of the acts billed to play at The Great Escape Festival in Brighton pulled out in support of Palestine – also due to the festival’s sponsorship by Barclays bank.
On Friday (August 30) Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds released their latest album ‘Wild God’, which NME gave four stars in a review. It reads: “Bad Seeds records are infamously loaded with gothic doom and gloom. Of course, this ain’t a poptastic LOLfest, and still coloured with the many shades of a life so challenging and weathered… with a lust for life, the once-dark prince is letting the light in.”
<< “it’s not complicated, Nick.” >>
It’s not complicated for your jihadi bedfellows either, Roger.
Leftism has rotted his brain. I feel sorry for him.
Leftism has rotted his brain
Sounds like the worms ate into his brain.
It’s not complicated... Roger Waters is an anti-Semite... Always has been, always will be and he literally, figuratively and openly hates Jewish people.
He’s an ultra leftwing liberal lunatic.
Waters is the point of the useful idiot spear.
One of many.
Wait...how many is a point....nevermind.
“Free Palestine” means “Destroy Israel”
They don’t want a Palestinian state as much as they want Israel to no longer exist.
Did i just invent a word?
I like it better than idiot-sphere.
Brian Eno too, eh? GFYourselves
its not complicated for Nazis who happen to sing in rock bands, is it?
So we finally find out The Dark Side of the Moon was inspired by Waters having his head deeply embedded in his “arse.”
And.....Waters gets more undeserved attention when he should be ignored.
“...The reincarnation of Oswald Mosley...”
I guess that officially makes Mr. Waters Less Than Zero:
“..Calling Mister Oswald with the swastika tattoo
There is a vacancy waiting in the English voodoo
Carving ‘V’ for vandal on the guilty boy’s head
When he’s had enough of that, maybe you’ll take him to bed
To teach him he’s alive ‘fore he wishes he was dead...”
One of the biggest pricks on the planet 🌎.
That’s probably what was meant by “As a matter of fact, it’s all dark”.
Rotfl!
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