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Palestinians urge Roger Waters to boycott Israel
Roger Waters, a founder member of the rock group Pink Floyd, is under pressure to cancel a planned concert in Tel Aviv in June as a protest against Israeli policy towards the Palestinians.
A group of Palestinian political activists, cultural organisations and their supporters have backed a letter to Mr Waters, who has expressed strong opposition to the 450-mile separation barrier being built by Israel. They urge him to remove the city from his summer tour this year.
The letter, which is supported, among others, by the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel, urges Waters not to perform in Israel "until the time comes when it ends its illegal occupation of Palestinian territory".
Waters showed no sign last night that he would bow to the pressure . He said: "I am happy to play to anybody who believes in peace. I don't discriminate between any of my fans, wherever they live. Being an Israeli does not disbar from being a human being."
The campaign to prevent Waters appearing in Israel follows several high-profile cultural skirmishes involving British public figures that began with last year's short-lived academic boycott and the recent announcement by a group of British architects that they were considering calling for a boycott of Israel.
The latter initiative has run into trouble after the leading British architect Richard Rogers, in whose offices the group's inaugural meeting took place, denied he had supported a boycott. There have been calls by American politicians for him to be dropped from a $1.7m (£1m) project to renovate a New York convention centre named after the late Jacob Javits, a Republican senator and strong supporter of Israel.
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http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article350103.ece
The letter, which is supported, among others, by the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel, urges Waters not to perform in Israel "until the time comes when it ends its illegal occupation of Palestinian territory".
Waters showed no sign last night that he would bow to the pressure . He said: "I am happy to play to anybody who believes in peace. I don't discriminate between any of my fans, wherever they live. Being an Israeli does not disbar from being a human being."
The campaign to prevent Waters appearing in Israel follows several high-profile cultural skirmishes involving British public figures that began with last year's short-lived academic boycott and the recent announcement by a group of British architects that they were considering calling for a boycott of Israel.
The latter initiative has run into trouble after the leading British architect Richard Rogers, in whose offices the group's inaugural meeting took place, denied he had supported a boycott. There have been calls by American politicians for him to be dropped from a $1.7m (£1m) project to renovate a New York convention centre named after the late Jacob Javits, a Republican senator and strong supporter of Israel.
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http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article350103.ece
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Hmm...wonder if I put it on (loud enough to be heard over the blaring TV, if the roomie + boyfriend would get the subliminal message of "you're jerks for keeping me up at 2 in the morning." Maybe not.
Nope. No bitterness here.
By JASON SILBERMAN AND JPOST.COM STAFF
Legendary British rock musician Roger Waters's upcoming trip to Israel has aroused the ire of Palestinian artists. Waters is most famous for being the voice of the seminal 1960s and 70s psychedelic band Pink Floyd and the writer of their final hit, Another Brick in the Wall.
However, Waters was not deterred by their complaint, The Guardian reported Thursday.
The Palestinian Association for Contemporary Art and the League of Palestinian Artists wrote to Waters to express its dismay.
"Palestinian as well as several international artists asked in shock: how can the artist whose name around the world was for many years associated with breaking walls of injustice be in any way complicit with the monstrosity of Israel's wall, declared illegal by the international court of justice?"
Last year, Waters was among several British artists who supported a War On Want campaign against the West Bank barrier. At the time, Waters said, "The poverty inflicted by the wall has been devastating for Palestinians. It has kept children from their schools, the sick from proper medical care and continues to destroy the Palestinian economy."
On Wednesday, Waters refused to consider canceling his trip. "I have a lot of fans in Israel, many of whom are refuseniks. I would not rule out going to Israel because I disapprove of the foreign policy any more than I would refuse to play in the UK because I disapprove of Tony Blair's foreign policy."
Waters, who along with several critically-acclaimed solo albums to his credit, helped Pink Floyd become one of the world's most popular bands, with such epic albums as The Wall, Animals, Wish You Were Here and Dark Side of the Moon. The band split in 1985, due to continuing differences between Waters and lead guitarist David Gilmour.
Waters' most recent release is an opera, Ca Ira, released last year.
The concert in Israel will take place June 22 at Hayarkon Park.
Anyway, like I said, he's a jerk, and I really could care less about what he thinks of the matter.
Anyone know how to get tickets?
http://www.ticketnet.co.il/ticketNet/jsp/Cinema/index.jsp
I tried searching with the category "ha kol" (everything...since this site also has movie tickets), but no luck since I don't have any hebrew software or anything of the sort. Perhaps your home computer has some software? Or you could always go to some sort of Jewish library and search from there, and I'm sure if there are Hebrew problems you have somebody would be willing to help.
Mr. Waters should use the oppurtunity to speak out against Zionism and rally the pro-palestinian forces in Israel to confront the illegal occupation from within Israel's borders. If Mr. Waters needs to keep this discreet, so be it, we will see soon his intentions.
I have the entire Pink Floyd discography and will continue listening, Final Cut, speaks out against the Israhel Occupation of Lebanon. I never have liked Rogers work, so just another hypocritical short changed traitor trying to make a bloody shekel in Israhel, add him to the boycott!!