BDS Sorry Didn’t Get Chance To Hound David Bowie About Israel

Former Pink Floyd front man Roger Waters said he had been hoping to give Bowie a self-righteous piece of his mind.

London, January 12 – Leaders of the Boycott, Divest, Sanctions movement targeting Israel reacted to the passing of rock legend David Bowie yesterday by expressing regret that they never got the opportunity to harass, threaten, or berate the musical icon for performing in Israel.

Bowie, 69, died of cancer on Sunday night, depriving the likes of Roger Waters, Elvis Costello, and legions of washed-up, third-rate, or publicity-starved musicians of a chance to grab some minor headlines by demanding that he refuse to perform in Israel or with Israeli artists. The last time Bowie performed in Israel was 1996, before the BDS movement in its current form got off the ground. He announced an end to touring in 2004, and gave his last live performance at a benefit concert in 2006, leaving the activists with no chance to use their customary harassment tools against the London native.

While some BDS advocates insist they merely oppose Israel’s policies toward Palestinians, the movement as a whole is dominated by parties and ideologies that seek the outright destruction of the Jewish State. Efforts to convince various academic and cultural bodies to support a boycott or divestment of Israeli interests have met limited, and only symbolic, success, while top-flight artists, businessmen, and academic institutions have not only refused to consider such measures, they have actively increased their investment in Israel and its institutions.

Former Pink Floyd front man Roger Waters said he had been hoping to give Bowie a self-righteous piece of his mind if the latter ever announced plans to visit Israel again, but was frustrated. “He’d been sick for a year and a half already, but like so many others I was praying he would pull through and make another comeback, so he could set up a concert or two in Israel and I’d get to seize on that and make some news with my politics,” he lamented. “But he and cancer decided that was not to be. David, if you’re listening to me now, I just want you to know I had big plans to exploit your fame to keep myself in the news long after I stopped being relevant to society. I envy your ability to reinvent yourself and push the boundaries of what it means to be an artist with a following and something meaningful and new to bring to the culture, something for which my limited talent forces me to substitute thinly-veiled antisemitism.”

Waters then embarked on a lengthy rant mansplaining how he could not possibly be antisemitic, because the Phoenecians were a Semitic-speaking people, and the “Pink” in Pink Floyd sounds something like the original pronunciation of Phoenecia, so he must love Semites – the actual Semites, not those Jews who are probably descended from somebody else no matter what actual genetic studies say.

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