Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters calls on musicians to boycott Israel

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New Delhi: Co- founder of the famous rock band 'Pink Floyd'- Roger Waters, in an interview in Washington DC on Wednesday called out to his fellow musicians for not abiding by the cultural boycott on Israel, Press TV reported. 

Here is the Twitter post by Press TV:

Pink Floyd co-founder, Roger Waters calls on fellow musicians to boycott Israel pic.twitter.com/KXiwqfWlzB — Press TV (@PressTV) August 10, 2017

Roger Waters said:

'Tom Yorke is wrong about not endorsing the policies of the Israeli govt by playing there.
Spokespersons of that govt have said how excited they are that this is the next thing that's happened for their Hasbara, which is explaining to the rest of the world what a wonderful and precious democracy Israel is. And willy- nilly when they cross the picket line, they are making a public statement that they DO endorse the policies of the government, whatever they say because that's what would be reported in Israel and that is what gets reported around the world. That is why Radiohead are being so soundly criticized by anybody with progressive ideas about human rights.'

'Civil soc in Palestine in 2005 started the PDS movement themselves. This isn't something imposed by a bunch of foreign rock musicians. This is something that they started and they have made an appeal to all artists, writers, musicians, actors, directors, anybody in the rest of the world to observe the picket line which they have drawn and to ask us to observe a cultural boycott of the country. '