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Like all artists, they seek to take down walls; deconstruct social systems; create revolutions that transform societies; and connect with a cause that seems just. Their decision to partner with extremists who seek to boycott Israel is part of that misguided project.

No. It goes deeper than naivete. Waters is a hard-core virulent, angry leftist. He has penned songs with very disturbing anti-Israel and anti-conservative lyrics. The Wall portrays his hated Tories as anti-Semitic (See In The Flesh), when it is the British Left that is so. In one Pink Floyd song he has even expressed an interest in putting all his hated (nearly all "right-wing" or Israeli) politicians in a "home" and killing them all.

In The Fletcher Memorial Home, named for Eric Fletcher Waters, his father who was killed in WWII, who he never knew and is endlessly bitter about, he wrote:

"Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome, Reagan and Haig,
Mr. Begin and friend, Mrs. Thatcher, and Paisly,
Mr. Brezhnev and party.
The ghost of McCarthy,
The memories of Nixon.
And now, adding colour, a group of anonymous latin-
American meat packing glitterati.

....

Safe in the permanent gaze of a cold glass eye
With their favorite toys
They'll be good girls and boys
In the Fletcher Memorial Home for colonial
Wasters of life and limb.
Is everyone in?
Are you having a nice time?
Now the final solution can be applied.

Brezhnev is cynically added for "balance", imho. -montag813

Yep, and blaming Maggie for Britain's woes was also moronic, as was the "irony" about the replacement ship being built in Japan. He also blames "the Nips being so good at building ships" for the decline of the British shipbuilding industry.

The only merit to the album is the title track, the music for which is a clone of Comfortably Numb:

If you negotiate the minefield in the drive
And beat the dogs and cheat the cold electronic eyes
And if you make it past the shotgun in the hall,
Dial the combination, open the priesthole
And if I'm in I'll tell you what's behind the wall.