Posted on 04/25/2017 3:47:42 AM PDT by Cronos
Open letter signed by likes of Ken Loach, Roger Waters and Young Fathers urges band to join cultural boycott
High-profile figures from the arts world, including Ken Loach to Roger Waters, have called on Radiohead to cancel an upcoming gig in Israel as part of a cultural boycott.
An open letter also signed by the South African archbishop Desmond Tutu and the actors Maxine Peake, Ricky Tomlinson, Miriam Margolyes and Juliet Stephenson asks the band to reconsider performing in a country “where a system of apartheid has been imposed on the Palestinian people”.
Also among the 47 signatories are the Wolf Hall director Peter Kosminsky, the Scottish Mercury prize-winning band Young Fathers, and the comedian Alexei Sayle. The letter was organised by Artists For Palestine UK and follows previous requests by Palestinian activists for Radiohead to pull out of the 19 July concert.
...In 2015, 700 artists including Brian Eno, Richard Ashcroft, Riz Ahmed, Margolyes and Loach signed an open letter pledging a cultural boycott of Israel until the country’s “colonial oppression of Palestinians” ended.
More recently, 7,000 people signed a petition asking Chemical Brothers to comply with the boycott and not to play a gig in Tel Aviv.
A spokesperson for Radiohead said the band had no comment.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
One might think the disaster that South Africa has turned into would give these “activists” pause but they really don’t care if they destroy a country and ruin a culture. As long as they get their way. You really can’t argue South Africa is any better off now. In fact it is worse in many ways but now the commies run things and whites are being murdered so that’s cool.
Roger Waters is so baldly and nakedly Anti-Semitic, I think he would shrink and hiss at the very sight of a Star of David, just like Dracula reacting to a cross, or a clove of garlic.
I would gladly boycott these 47 - count 'em, 47 - leading arts world figures, but I would have to patronize them first. Most of the names do not ring a bell, although I seem to recall this Roger Waters fellow as a longstanding anti-semite who apparently plays drums and irritates bandmates when he isn't ranting about Israel.
Mr. niteowl77
Buncha eff-heads.
Dennis Prager: Is Israel an Apartheid State?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdCAmbN4E7E
I'm not referring to the "Up Against The Wall" stanzas from The Wall, I'm referring to the use of "the inflated pig" as a scapegoat at concerts cum political rallies. Christians, Jews, (and even Hillary) were slurred on the side of it with different freshly painted slogans and it was marched through the crowd (on a rope) to be derided by the stoned masses.
Saudi Arabia IS an Apartheid and Jimmy Carter is in their pocket, yet he has the balls to proclaim Israel an Apartheid.
One was a commie...
Roger Waters is a piece of shiite.
Ping!
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