Roger Waters: Israel Is Anti-Semitic
Look, I write for a Jewish publication. About Jews. All day. Every day. Which means it takes a lot to move me, especially when it comes to the never-ending torrent of bigoted drivel produced by Israel’s shrillest detractors. But this week, Roger Waters proved he still has the stuff, producing a masterpiece of hate that deserves a moment of consideration.
In his show in London’s Hyde Park last week, the former Pink Floyd frontman amused his fans by displaying political slogans on the Jumbotrons. They were precisely the sort of piffle you’d expect a muddle-minded rock star to hurl at his fans: “Resist the Military Industrial Complex!,” say, or “Resist Rattling Your Sabre at Iran.” That, for those keeping score at home, would be the same Iran that had just arrested a teenager for posting videos of herself dancing on Instagram, but let’s not spoil Waters’ fun. He has every right to dress up as the world’s oldest woke millennial, and his fans have every right to gobble up the pretentious bullshit he sells them for hundreds of dollars a ticket. But midway through the show, Waters veered from the ridiculous into the truly heinous.
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