“As musicians, we cannot be silent. “We wanted to encourage artists to speak together and hopefully through that people would feel courage to speak in support of human rights in Palestine,” Christoph said on the phone from Montreal. That’s where we’re coming from.”The letter follows a series of statements from individual artists concerned about the long-running conflict. The organization’s cause is one for which Pink Floyd’s Waters in particular has long advocated. Eleven days of violence killed more than 240 Palestinians, and Hamas-launched rockets killed a dozen people in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.

Source: Los Angeles Times May 27, 2021 21:11 UTC