Michael Stipe: Υποστηρίζω τους Radiohead στο θέμα με την συναυλία στο Ισραήλ

Ο Michael Stipe δήλωσε ότι υποστηρίζει τον Thom Yorke και τους Radiohead στην απόφαση τους να παίξουν στο Tel Aviv, την περασμένη εβδομάδα... Τον τελευταίο καιρό έχει δημιουργηθεί έντονη αντιπαράθεση για το θέμα από διάφορες προσωπικότητες, συμπεριλαμβανομένου του Roger Waters, ο οποίος δήλωσε κατά της συναυλίας.

Ο Stripe δήλωσε μέσω instagram: “I stand with Radiohead and their decision to perform. Let’s hope a dialogue continues, helping to bring the occupation to an end and lead to a peaceful solution.” See the post below.

Σαν απάντηση στο μήνυμα του Stripe παλαιστινιακοί κύκλοι απάντησαν:

The continued dialogue Michael Stipe hopes for has literally been going on for decades, and it has done nothing to bring us any closer to securing our freedom, justice or equal human rights. On the contrary, it has served Israel's regime of occupation and apartheid superbly, by providing it with a perfect fig leaf to cover its intensifying siege of 2 million Palestinians in Gaza, its ethnic cleansing in and around occupied Jerusalem, and its construction of illegal settlements and walls. For dialogue to be ethical and effective, it must recognize that all humans deserve equal rights and that all injustice must end in accordance with international law. Otherwise it becomes a deceptive, unethical dialogue that privileges the oppressor and entrenches the notion of co-existence under colonial oppression rather than co-resistance to oppression, a key condition to ethical coexistence. Reconciliation and dialogue in South Africa came only after the end of apartheid, not before, as Desmond Tutu never tires from repeating.

Επίσης ο σκηνοθέτης Mike Leigh δήλωσε εναντίον:

As the lights go out in Gaza and Palestinian cancer patients die because they are denied travel permits by Israel, while a Palestinian poet in Israel lives under house arrest for a poem she wrote on Facebook, while a young circus performer from the West Bank languishes in administrative detention without charge or trial – Thom Yorke speaks loftily about ‘crossing borders’ and ‘freedom of expression’. One has to ask, freedom for whom exactly?’