‘Every flinch, year by year, every tremble, every tear’ –Roger Waters’ appeals to musicians not to play Israel
Roger Waters shares the letters he has sent to musicians urging them not to play Israel.
A highlight of the Israel lobby conference held at the National Press Club by the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs last Friday was a speech by singer/songwriter Roger Waters in which he read from letters to musicians urging them not to play Israel in line with the call of the BDS campaign.
Waters noted the financial incentive to sing in Israel: “The Israelis do pay itinerant musicians inordinately well… To perform in Israel is a lucrative gig, but to do so serves to normalize the occupation, the apartheid, the ethnic cleansing, the incarceration of children, the routine slaughter of unarmed protesters, all that bad stuff.”
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