Roger Waters und Nick Mason fordern Rolling Stones auf Israel Konzert zu überdenken!

Roger Waters erhält mit Nick Mason unerwartete Unterstützung, aus den eigenen Reihen sozusagen, in seinem Engagement für die BDS-Bewegung (BDS steht für: Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions = Boykott, Kapitalabzug und Sanktionen). Beide fordern in einem offenen Brief: Pink Foyds Roger Waters and Nick Mason why Rolling Stones shouldnt play in Israel, die Rolling Stones auf ihren Konzertauftritt in Tel Aviv am 4. Juni noch einmal zu überdenken.

Mason und Waters argumentieren, dass ein Auftritt heutzutage in Israel, mit einem Auftritt am Höhepunkt der südafrikanischen Apartheidspolitik in Sun City zu vergleichen ist!

With the recent news that the Rolling Stones will be playing their first-ever concert in Israel, and at what is a critical time in the global struggle for Palestinian freedom and equal rights, we, the two surviving founders of Pink Floyd, have united in support of Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS), a growing, nonviolent global human rights movement initiated by Palestinian civil society in 2005 to end Israel’s occupation, racial discrimination and denial of basic Palestinian rights.

So, to the bands that intend to play Israel in 2014, we urge you to reconsider. Playing Israel now is the moral equivalent of playing Sun City at the height of South African apartheid; regardless of your intentions, crossing the picket line provides propaganda that the Israeli government will use in its attempts to whitewash the policies of its unjust and racist regime.

We are nearing the tipping point in global awareness that the denial of Palestinian rights has had a devastating impact on generations of people, and that they need our support now more than ever. Consequently, we encourage you, fellow artists, to ask yourselves what you would do if forced to live under military rule and discriminatory laws for decades. If the answer is that you would resist until justice prevailed, we ask that you champion BDS as a nonviolent, collective means of securing a better future for all. If you wouldn’t play Sun City, back in the day, as you, the Rolling Stones did not, then don’t play Tel Aviv until such time as freedom reigns for all and equal rights is the law of the land.“Together We Stand”

Nick Mason and Roger Waters

Ich danke Christian für die info!