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Sunday, March 06, 2011

Angry Arab on Pink Floyd's Roger Waters Joining Cultural Boycott of Israel

http://angryarab.blogspot.com/2011/03/we-dont-need-no-thought-control.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

"Waters said he was extremely affected by his tour of the West Bank, scrawling "We don’t need no thought control", lyrics from one of Pink Floyd's most popular songs, on the wall, and cancelling his performance in Tel Aviv. Instead, the British star held the concert in Neve Shalom, a cooperative village founded by Jews and Arabs. In the letter Waters wrote announcing his support of a cultural boycott of Israel, he said that in his "view, the abhorrent and draconian control that Israel wields over the besieged Palestinians in Gaza, and the Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, coupled with its denial of the rights of refugees to return to their homes in Israel, demands that fair minded people around the world support the Palestinians in their civil, nonviolent resistance."" (thanks Sarah)

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