A highlight of the Israel lobby conference held at the National Press Club by the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs last Friday was a speech by singer/songwriter Roger Waters in which he read from letters to musicians urging them not to play Israel in line with the call of the BDS campaign.

Waters noted the financial incentive to sing in Israel: “The Israelis do pay itinerant musicians inordinately well… To perform in Israel is a lucrative gig, but to do so serves to normalize the occupation, the apartheid, the ethnic cleansing, the incarceration of children, the routine slaughter of unarmed protesters, all that bad stuff.”

Here is a portion of a letter Waters wrote to Madonna and others in 2019 opposing their choice to appear at the Eurovision contest in Israel.

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