Roger Waters can claim he isn't anti-Semitic all he wants. Aside from his Nazi fetish, I am going to have a very hard time believing him when he insists those who criticize him have been, “making up stuff because you’ve been told to by your masters from the Foreign Office in Tel Aviv," as he claimed during a concert at London's O2 arena last week.
Over the years, Waters has assembled a greatest hits collection of anti-Semitic remarks. Among other things used imagery of the Star of David and dollar signs side by side in his concerts, claimed there is a "Jewish lobby" in the American music industry, and for good measure, likens Israel to the Nazis.
I think some people are finally getting the message. Waters' former Pink Floyd bandmate David Gilmour and his wife Polly Sampson have condemned his bigotry against Jews. His anti-Semitism is also being called out in both the U.S. by the Biden Administration's special envoy on anti-Semitism Deborah Lipstadt and U.K. Labour Party leader Keir Starmer. However, when Waters' audiences sing, "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free," they share the former Pink Floyd frontman's desire to wipe the world's only Jewish homeland off the face of the Earth. The flow of Roger Waters' anti-Semitism must cease.
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