Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters has released a video compelling Australian Eurovision contestant Kate Miller-Heidke to boycott this year’s event.
Posted on Vimeo earlier today, the video begins with Waters stating, “I believe you are the offical Australian contestant in the Eurovision contest which is supposed to be in Tel Aviv in two months time.
“This is a personal entreaty to you, to consider the possibility of standing alongside the refugees in Palestine and also the Palestinian refugees who have been living outside of Palestine for the last 70 years.
“You, if you go to Tel Aviv and sing, will be used by the Israeli government to whitewash the occupation and it’s gone on too long.”
“This has to stop,” Waters continues. “This boycott that was asked for, requested by Palestinian civil society back in 2006, is the most effective way of shining a light on these dark times.
“Either you will or you won’t. I hope you will. If you care about refugees, if you care about human rights, you will be the one to stand up and say, ‘You know what guys, I’m not prepared to be part of this whitewash. I would love to sing for you but it’s going to have to be after all the people in the holy land have equal human rights under the law.'”
Read the article by Lauren Baxter and watch the video (if you can stand seeing the heinous Roger Waters) at TheMusic.