![]() Pitchfork has reached out to representatives for Radiohead for comment. “This is something that they started that they have organized, and they have made an appeal to all artists, writers, musicians, actors, directors, anybody in the rest of the world to observe the picket line, which they have drawn.” Watch Waters’ full interview below. “The people of the United States have not got together as a civil society and asked performers from the rest of the world not to come and perform in the United States, because they are an occupied people and there is an organized resistance against the occupying army,” he said. Roger Waters has faced numerous accusations of antisemitism in the past decade, though he claims that the charge aims to discredit his criticism of Israels policies toward the Palestinians. Waters, best known as bass player, co-lead vocalist, lyricist and principal songwriter in the rock band Pink Floyd, defined Israel as 'an apartheid state' in a video he posted on Twitter on Friday. during the Trump administration, citing the existence of the BDS Movement as a key reason for that belief. June 22nd 2006 (Guy Assayag /Flash90) If there’s one thing Roger Waters knows, it’s that. ![]() Waters continued on to explain that he believes Radiohead performing in Israel is different from the band playing in the U.S. Israeli fans dance during the Roger Waters The Wall concert at Neve Shalom, a mixed Arab-Jewish town. That is why Radiohead are being so soundlyĬriticized by anybody with progressive ideas about human rights, That they do endorse policies of the government, whatever they say,īecause that is what will be reported in Israel and that is what gets Often in the past I have written detailed, and sometimes even persuasive, letters to colleagues in the music. When they cross the picket line, they are making a public statement Waters has routinely called on his fellow artists to boycott performing in Israel. What a wonderful and precious democracy Israel is. To their hasbara, which is the explaining to the rest of the world Were also reproducing below some of the many messages artists have posted in support of Lorde on social media or via this site. What has Roger Waters said in defence Waters is a supporter of Palestine and the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, which is pushing Israel to change its policies toward. Said how excited they are, that this is the best thing that’s happened Thom Yorke is wrong about not endorsing the policies of the Israeli
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