Pro-Palestine campaigners to protest at Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds concert
Protest groups have also written to the Australian singer asking him not to perform in Israel amid the ongoing conflict in the Middle East.
Pro-Palestine campaigners plan to protest at Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds’ concert at Glasgow’s OVO Hydro on Sunday night.
Groups including Show Israeli Genocide The Red Card and Scottish Sport For Palestine will gather outside the venue to urge fans to boycott Cave for allegedly “normalising Israel’s war campaign and illegal occupation”.
They have also written to Cave asking him not to perform in Israel “until it abides by international law” amid the ongoing conflict in the Middle East.
Cave does not have any concerts scheduled in Israel, but said in an interview earlier this year that he finds it “difficult” to “punish ordinary people because of the acts of their government”.
Protesters referred to his comments in the interview with the Reason podcast, during which the 67-year-old also said he is “no friend of the government in Israel”.
It comes after the Australian singer and his band played two gigs in the country on their 2017 Skeleton Tree tour, which Cave said at the time were in protest at the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.
