In an interview last month, Eric Clapton claimed, "Israel is running the world, Israel is running the show."
The former guitarist for Cream, Derek and the Dominos and Blind Faith also compared U.S. Senate hearings on anti-Semitism to the Nuremberg Trials and the Spanish Inquisition while praising campus occupations at Columbia University and elsewhere.
In recent months, Clapton has released a song called "Voice of a Child" about the destruction in Gaza without any mention of Hamas attack on Israel and has also been appearing in concert with a guitar bearing the colors of the Palestinian flag.
I wish I could say I am surprised by Clapton's views. But lest we forget that during a concert in Birmingham in August 1976 he praised the ultra-right-wing British MP Enoch Powell proclaiming, “Stop Britain from becoming a black colony. Get the foreigners out. Get the wogs out. Get the coons out. Keep Britain white." The only reason it didn't end his career then and there was because he was drunk at the time. Well, in vino veritas.
More recently, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Clapton was virulently outspoken against vaccines.
Given his inclination towards conspiracy theories, I suppose it was only a matter of time before Clapton would embrace the world's oldest conspiracy theory.
I guess this means that he and Roger Waters will be touring together.
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