Israel

”I simply could not treat my Israeli fans with the necessary contempt to do Brian Eno’s bidding.” - Nick Cave

Lana Del Rey dropped out of the Israeli festival last week, and now so have of Montreal, Shlohmo, Leon Vynehall, and others...

”It's important to me to perform in both Palestine and Israel and treat all my fans equally. Unfortunately it hasn't been possible to line up both visits with such short notice and therefore I'm postponing my appearance at the Meteor Festival.”

”Roger Waters, I read your statement about taking action even when you believe in neutrality, I totally understand what you're saying and this is my action.” - Lana Del Rey

"Nick thinks this is about censorship of his music? What? Nick, with all due respect, your music is irrelevant to this issue, so is mine, so is Brian Eno’s so is Beethoven’s, this isn’t about music, it’s about human rights." - Roger Waters.

“It suddenly became very important,” Nick Cave said, ahead of his controversial, European tour-ending shows in Tel Aviv, ”to make a stand, to me, against those people who are trying to shut down musicians, to bully musicians, to censor musicians and to silence musicians.”

Roger Waters, Thurston Moore, TV on the Radio's Tunde Adebimpe and more have signed an open letter protesting Nick Cave's upcoming shows in Tel Aviv.

"A lot of stuff was said about this but, in the end, we played some music," Thom Yorke told the audience at Radiohead's concert in Tel-Aviv, Israel on Wednesday, right before launching into their final song of the night, "Karma Police." Radiohead made waves deciding to play …

The R.E.M. frontman says: "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."

"Playing a country isn't the same as endorsing its government," said Thom Yorke in a reply to independent film director Ken Loach's op-ed on why Radiohead should not play Israel.