Editing Nick Cave (section)

==== Israel and BDS ====
In November 2017, Cave was urged by British musicians [[Brian Eno]] and [[Roger Waters]] to cancel two concerts in [[Tel Aviv]], Israel, while "[[Israeli apartheid|apartheid]] remains" but he declined.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Blais-Billie |first1=Braudie |last2=Kim |first2=Michelle Hyun |date=19 November 2017 |title=Nick Cave Calls Israel Show 'a Principled Stand,' Accuses Roger Waters of 'Censoring Musicians' |url=https://pitchfork.com/news/nick-cave-calls-israel-show-a-principled-stand-accuses-roger-waters-of-censoring-musicians/ |website=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]}}</ref> Cave went on to describe the [[Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions]] movement as "cowardly and shameful", and that calls to boycott the country are "partly the reason I am playing Israel – not as support for any particular political entity but as a principled stand against those who wish to bully, shame and silence musicians." He wrote an [[open letter]] to Eno to defend his position.<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Blistein |first=Jon |date=11 December 2018 |title=Nick Cave Defends Israel Concert in Open Letter to Brian Eno |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/nick-cave-defend-israel-concert-open-letter-brian-eno-767744/ |access-date=31 July 2019 |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Beaumont-Thomas |first=Ben |date=11 December 2018 |title=Nick Cave: cultural boycott of Israel is 'cowardly and shameful' |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/dec/11/nick-cave-cultural-boycott-israel-brian-eno |access-date=31 July 2019 |newspaper=[[The Guardian]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Spiro |first=Amy |date=12 December 2018 |title=Nick Cave: Boycotting Israel Is 'Cowardly And Shameful' |url=https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Culture/Nick-Cave-Boycotting-Israel-is-cowardly-and-shameful-574121 |access-date=31 July 2019 |newspaper=[[The Jerusalem Post]]}}</ref>

In 2024, when asked by a musician on Cave's The Red Hand Files whether they should boycott [[The Great Escape Festival]] over its ties to [[Barclays]], which increased investments in arms companies trading with Israel, he responded with "play".<ref>{{Cite news |last=Bakare |first=Lanre |date=2024-05-14 |title=More than 100 acts quit Great Escape music festival in solidarity with Palestine |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/article/2024/may/14/more-than-120-acts-quit-great-escape-music-festival-in-solidarity-with-palestine |access-date=2024-05-15 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Cave |first=Nick |title=Issue #284 / May 2024 |url=https://www.theredhandfiles.com/i-am-a-musician-who-has-been-booked-to-play/ |website=The Red Hand Files|date=7 May 2024 }}</ref> He believes that the BDS movement has been ineffective and is also "used to further [the Israeli government's] nefarious agendas, while, at the same time, punishes ordinary fans."<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-08-30 |title=Nick Cave questions effectiveness of cultural boycotts: "Clearly it's not working" |url=https://consequence.net/2024/08/nick-cave-bds-cultural-boycott-israel/ |access-date=2025-05-07 |website=Consequence |language=en}}</ref>