Bojkottpopen får mothugg av Morrissey och Nick Cave

Det finns en rörelse inom popkulturen som sliter dag och natt för att vi ska ansluta oss till en kulturbojkott av Israel. Nu är två artister aktuella med mothugg. Morrissey har två Israelanknutna sånger på sitt nya album, en heter kort och gott Israel, den andra The Girl from Tel AvivWho Wouldn´t Kneel (lyssna till båda texterna, det är de värda):






Den andre artister är Nick Cave som fått en skjuts av bojkottrörelsen; han gör precis tvärtom och spelar i Tel Aviv (se en gripande video från konserten, där han står sjungande i publiken som rent fysiskt närmar sig honom, längst ner i denna bloggpost). Så här skriver City Journal om det:

Nick Cave, the brooding Australian poet and original Goth rocker, performed in Tel Aviv this week in what he described as active opposition to the campaign to boycott Israel. Calls to join the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel annoyed Cave, who saw it as a crusade to “censor and silence musicians.” Not signing the boycott wasn’t enough, he decided; he wanted to play an Israeli venue, to spite the boycott’s self-righteous, politically correct organizers. “So really,” explained Cave, “you could say in a way that the BDS made me play Israel.”  

The same week that Cave thumbed his nose at prominent anti-Israel campaigners Roger Waters (of Pink Floyd) and avant-garde producer Brian Eno (of Roxy Music), famed misanthropic emo-rock idol Morrissey told a German journalist that he “loves” Tel Aviv. Calling the boycott “absurd and narrow-minded,” Morrissey added that “being politically correct is incorrect. . . . It means forbidding freedom of speech. That’s how the BDS movement sounds to me.” The last track, "Israel," on Morrissey’s new album, is an anthem to identity and difference in the face of hatred. “In other climes they bitch and whine/Just because you’re not like them/Israel, Israel” croons Morrissey. “The sky is dark for many others/They want it dark for you as well/Israel, Israel,” he sings, skewering the hypocrisy of BDS campaigners who focus on every Israeli fault while ignoring the Middle East’s massive human rights abuses.