Posted on 09/22/2020 2:32:44 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Musician Roger Waters said in an Aug. 29 interview with Al Jazeera that he has never uttered any anti-Semitic statements in his entire life.
Hoda Abdel-Hamid, Al Jazeera English’s senior international correspondent, asked Waters about those who call him anti-Semitic because of his support for the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement.
Waters said he joined the movement because Palestinians have been asking for “basic human rights.” He then added that he’s not anti-Semitic.
“I’ve never done or spoken a single anti-Semitic word or act in my entire life, or had an anti-Semitic thought in my head in my entire life,” the former Pink Floyd bassist said. “The propaganda machine that the Israelis run is huge. They spend millions and millions and millions of dollars every year trying to spread this lie that anybody that speaks against Israeli government policy is an anti-Semite.”
Inspired by the South African anti-apartheid movement that was founded in 1959 and expanded over the next several decades, the BDS movement urges action to pressure Israel to comply with international law, the Brookings Institution wrote in January.
Abdel-Hamid proceeded to ask Waters about those who say that he has contradictory views because Waters frequently criticizes the Israeli occupation of the West Bank but not the Russian occupation of the Crimea. Waters replied that the two circumstances are different, arguing that 98% of Crimean residents preferred the Russian government over the Western-backed Ukrainian government before annexation.
“You cannot talk about the 70-year-old Israeli occupation of Palestine and the relatively recent annexation or change of power in the Crimea in the same breath,” Waters said. “They are entirely different things … it’s not as if the Palestinians in 1948 suddenly said, ‘Can you send down a load of Jewish people from northeastern Europe please to throw us out of our homes and 700,000 of us and tell us that we have to get off the land because they are going to make a Jewish state here and they don’t want us?’ ”
Abdel-Hamid then asked Waters about those who have criticized former Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn as being anti-Semitic. Waters decried the allegations against Corbyn as a “smear campaign,” speculating that the Israeli Ministry of Strategic Affairs conjured up the allegations to derail Corbyn’s campaign to become prime minister of Great Britain.
“They did it very, very successfully and they succeeded in destroying him,” Waters said.
He proceeded to argue that Corbyn should have resigned from the party when Labour’s ruling body adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of anti-Semitism in 2018.
“Anybody with a heart or soul should have resigned at that point because it is such patent nonsense,” Waters said. “How can criticizing the Israeli policy of occupation and apartheid ‑ which is what they’re operating — how can you call that anti-Semitic? That would be like calling criticism of the South African administration before the end of the apartheid regime in South Africa anti-Christian.”
Waters also criticized current Labour Party leader Keir Starmer for agreeing to a settlement in July with seven whistleblowers who accused the party of enabling anti-Semitism under Corbyn in a 2019 BBC “Panorama” documentary. At the time of the documentary’s release, Labour accused the whistleblowers of having a “personal and political axes to grind” and alleged that John Ware, the journalist behind the documentary, fabricated quotes and “knowingly promulgated falsehoods.” This prompted a defamation lawsuit against the party, and Ware reportedly is planning to sue Corbyn personally over the matter.
“These are rabid Zionists and they are involved in a huge smokescreen to cover up the vile war crimes that are being orchestrated every single day against people of Palestine by an administration in the state of Israel and that has been going on for 70 years,” Waters said.
In response to Waters’ assertion that he isn’t anti-Semitic, pro-Israel Twitter user Claire Voltaire tweeted out an i24 News video stating that Waters’ “record of Jew-hatred” includes his concerts featuring inflatable pigs with a Star of David and dollar signs on them and Waters calling Zionism “an ugly stain on the world that must be removed.”
Israellycool blogger David Lange tweeted, “Go home @RogerWaters, you’re drunk.”
Nice to see both he and his terrorist “palestinian” buddies on the defensive.
Case closed antisemite.
If he has to say that, then he did it
very clever statement. He has never spoken a SINGLE anti-semitic word, likely true. But, he’s spewed forth an entire CAREER FULL of anti-semitic screeds
and will burn in Hell.
That’s because he’s better than all of us. His virtue signaling proves it
Lol.
First he says:
“I’ve never done or spoken a single anti-Semitic word or act in my entire life, or had an anti-Semitic thought in my head in my entire life,”
Then he does what? Blames the joooos.
“The propaganda machine that the Israelis run is huge. They spend millions and millions and millions of dollars every year trying to spread this lie that anybody that speaks against Israeli government policy is an anti-Semite.”
Pink Flod sucks and sucked and always did.
One good song, Wish You Were Here.
Ok, One of These Days is a good driving instrumental.
That’s some BS, right there.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/search?m=all;o=time;q=quick;s=antisemitism
Sorry, pal, your actions are all that is needed to show what you are all about.
“I’ve never done or spoken a single anti-Semitic word or act in my entire life, or had an anti-Semitic thought in my head in my entire life. … The propaganda machine that the Israelis run is huge. They spend millions and millions and millions of dollars every year trying to spread this lie that anybody that speaks against Israeli government policy is an anti-Semite.” […]Yep: right after claiming to have never spoken or thought anything antisemitic, he launches right into antisemitic diatribes. Dull on, you crazy lump of amorphous carbon.
“These are rabid Zionists and they are involved in a huge smokescreen to cover up the vile war crimes that are being orchestrated every single day against people of Palestine by an administration in the state of Israel and that has been going on for 70 years.” …
Sorry, pal, your actions are all that is needed to show what you are all about.
Over the years.... lost his mind...
Can somebody post all the quotes in which Roger Waters criticizes China for oppressing Uighurs?
The lyrics straight from a certain song off the album “The Wall”
“THAT one looks Jewish, and that one’s a coon. Who let all this riff raff into the room? There’s one smoking a joint and another with spots! If I had my way, I’d have all of you shot!”
Lyrics by Waters...
http://www.pink-floyd-lyrics.com/html/in-the-flesh-2-wall-lyrics.html
“Careful With That Axe, Eugene” was interesting...and the scream adds a nice touch.
Wow, I can’t stand to listen to them, I didn’t realize it was that bad.
Don’t forget, he also said Israel killed George Floyd.
Right below this paragraph, here they are.
I love it when rich white entertainment industry nitwits tell me how I've benefited from white supremacy, particularly when they come from England.
Hilarious part, there is a site trying desperately to spin that song and Waters..
https://www.thewallanalysis.com/in-the-flesh-2/
Tl/dr = you read the lyrics but he didn’t say them/ it’s an allegory.
(Show me a musician who doesn’t write from what he knows and thinks)
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