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The aforementioned Nick Cave, in December 2018, condemned a cultural boycott of Israel.
Older, white and with a racist tendencies.
Nick Cave is wrong to perform in Israel
Just as many artists chose to boycott South African apartheid, so should they do today with Israeli apartheid.
...Regardless of his politics and his best intentions, his performance there would help Israel present itself as an open and vibrant society and cover up its decades-old oppression that us Palestinians have been suffering under.
Similarly, artists from around the world a generation ago were presented with the choice to heed the South African call to boycott apartheid South Africa and refuse complicity in that brutal system of institutionalised segregation and discrimination.
Older, white and with a racist tendencies.
Nick Cave is wrong to perform in Israel
Just as many artists chose to boycott South African apartheid, so should they do today with Israeli apartheid.
...Regardless of his politics and his best intentions, his performance there would help Israel present itself as an open and vibrant society and cover up its decades-old oppression that us Palestinians have been suffering under.
Similarly, artists from around the world a generation ago were presented with the choice to heed the South African call to boycott apartheid South Africa and refuse complicity in that brutal system of institutionalised segregation and discrimination.
In the words of a recent UN report, ‘Israel has established an apartheid regime that dominates the Palestinian people’.
It is easy to see Nick Cave is wrong on this issue:
The call for the boycott, also supported inside Israel, is intended primarily as being with Palestinians and Israelis showing solidarity, rather than against anything but apartheid conditions.
[LAWS]Cave misses the basic point that when a group has privilege equality comes to feel like a loss – with this same distinction at the core of understanding or not understanding the Israeli position on Palestine.[/LAWS]Cave noted that the loss of his son gave him “a deep feeling toward other people and an absolute understanding of their suffering”, but to claim such a high mantle, Cave must do better with all those who have suffered, more extensively and avoidably than he has, and might reasonably consider distancing himself from regimes that institutionalise such suffering. There is a danger in assuming a universality of knowing on the back of life experience so Western-rooted, especially if Cave is then willing to wield this subjective understanding to the disadvantage of non-white populations facing the might of western militarism.
..In some respect, Cave is only walking the well-trodden path of the celebrated musician with a faulty political compass.
Recalling musician's use of art to speak out against injustice, Palestinians urge Nick Cave to cancel concerts in Israel.
Even most Israelis are opposed to the Zionists. We are Israeli citizens, opposed to the Israeli government’s policies of oppression, occupation, apartheid and ethnic cleansing against the indigenous Palestinian people
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