Rogers Waters and Brian Eno have hit back at Australian musician Nick Cave after he accused the rock icons of trying to “bully” and “censor” him, and other musicians, over his current Israel tour.
Waters and Eno – prominent supporters of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, which lobbies artists to sever ties with Israel in protest of its occupation of Palestine – have called on Cave to join the boycott.
“Nick thinks this is about censorship of his music? What? Nick, with all due respect, your music is irrelevant to this issue, so is mine, so is Brian Eno’s, so is Beethoven’s,” said Pink Floyd bassist Waters in a statement.
“This isn’t about music, it’s about human rights”.
At a press conference in Jerusalem on Sunday, Cave said he decided to perform in Israel as a “principled stand” against BDS activists.
Read the article by Rob Moran in the Sydney Morning Herald.