News about Nick Cave’s concert tour of Israel just gets better and better.
Following his press conference in which he stood up strongly for Israel against BDS, Nick showed the love in his concerts. This was followed by Roger Waters and his not-so-merry band of BDS-holes expressing their displeasure.
Now we learn that Coldplay’s Chris Martin has been in Israel and actually attended Nick Cave’s first concert!
Among the thousands who packed Tel Aviv’s Menorah Mivtachim Arena for Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds’ show Sunday night was Coldplay vocalist Chris Martin.
Martin was spotted backstage at the well-received show, but had already been seen in Israel over the weekend in Herzliya, together with 50 Shades of Grey star Dakota Johnson, with whom he has been romantically linked. According to Ynet, Martin and Johnson dined in Tel Aviv with Cave, who was making his first visit to Israel in some 20 years.
What makes this even sweeter: Besides Coldplay being one of the world’s biggest bands, they were at one time regarded as the great white hope for BDS-holes everywhere when they posted link to a pro-palestinian song on their Facebook page back in 2011.
But since then, they have been a major disappointment for BDS-holes. After removing the link to the song from their Facebook page, they invested in an Israeli company, employed an Israeli visual design company to produce a video clip, and hired Israelis to direct a video clip. Chris Martin was also here last year checking things out.
So yes, this has been a hell of a bad week for BDS. May the trend continue!
