Pink Floyd front-man calls on fellow British rocker to cancel show in Tel Aviv in support of Palestinian children\’s rights.
Outspoken Israel critic Roger Waters has called on fellow English entertainer Robbie Williams to nix his upcoming Tel Aviv performance in line with the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement.
Williams, who rose to fame in the 1990s as an international pop sensation, is scheduled to hold his first concert in Israel at Tel Aviv\’s Park Hayarkon as part of his “Let Me Entertain You” world tour.
Pink Floyd front-man Waters, a proponent of the BDS movement against Israel, made the call in a piece addressed to Williams published Tuesday in the online news magazine Salon.
The 71-year-old English rocker wrote that if played, Williams\’ slated May 2 concert would signal his support of alleged Israeli abuses of Palestinian children.
Noting Williams love of soccer, Waters urged the "Millennium" singer to consider, among reasons not to play the gig in Tel Aviv, the July 16 incident during last summer\’s war between Israel and Hamas in which four Palestinian boys were killed in a strike on a Gaza City beach.
"Dear Robbie, playing this concert on May 2 would be giving your tacit support to the deaths of over 500 Palestinian children last summer in Gaza, including the four soccer players on the beach in Gaza, and condoning the arrest and abuse of hundreds of Palestinian children each year living under Israeli occupation, as has been documented by UNICEF itself," Waters penned Williams.