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The ADL defended Roger Waters against accusations of anti-semitism until last week.
The ADL defended Roger Waters against accusations of anti-semitism until last week.
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL), which once defended former Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters from accusations of anti-semitism, announced on Thursday, December 12 , that “anti-Semitic conspiracy theories” have “seeped into the totality” of Waters’ publicly announced views.

The announcement by the ADL was made in response to a recent interview CounterPunch magazine conducted with Waters. In the interview, Waters compared the treatment of Palestinians by Israel with the treatment of Jews by Nazi Germany.

“Judging by his remarks, Roger Waters has absorbed classic anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, and these have now seeped into the totality of his views,” Abraham H. Foxman, National Director of the ADL, told The Times of Israel recently. “His comments about Jews and Israel have gotten progressively worse over time. It started with anti-Israel invective, and has now morphed into conspiratorial anti-Semitism.”

“How sad that a creative genius could become so perverted by his own narrow-minded bigotry,” Foxman added.

During the CounterPunch interview, Waters reportedly said that, in regard to Palestinians,   that the “parallels with what went on in the ’30s in Germany are so crushingly obvious.” Furthermore, he stated that “there were many people that pretended that the oppression of the Jews was not going on. From 1933 until 1946. So this is not a new scenario. Except that this time it’s the Palestinian people being murdered.”

According to Newsradio.com, the questionable comments came when CounterPunch asked Waters how he felt about other artists commenting that “mixing arts and politics is wrong.” Newsradio.com reported that in response, Waters alluded to the fact that this subject would be featured on his upcoming album. He reportedly said “Now, if you’re not interested in any of this, if you’re one of those ‘Roger I love Pink Floyd but I hate your f***ing politics,’ if you believe artists should be mute, emasculated, nodding dogs dangling aimlessly over the dashboard of life, you might be well advised to f*** off to the bar now, because time keeps slipping away.’ That’s my answer to your question.”

Specifically speaking about Jews and Israel, he is reported to have said during the CounterPunch interview that “the Jewish lobby is extraordinarily powerful here and particularly in the industry that I work in, the music industry and in rock’n roll, as they say.”

While referring to Israel’s “right wing rabbinate,” Waters said “they believe that everybody that is not a Jew is only on earth to serve them and they believe that the Indigenous people of the region that they kicked off the land in 1948 and have continued to kick off the land ever since are sub-human. The parallels with what went on in the 30’s in Germany are so crushingly obvious that it doesn’t surprise me that the movement that both you and I are involved in is growing every day.”

According to the Times of Israel, Waters is a supporter of the current of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement. Additionally, he is reportedly publicly critical of Israel and apparently used pig-shaped balloon with Jewish symbols, including a Star of David, at his concerts this past July. At the time, Rabbi Abraham Cooper of the Simon Wiesenthal Center denounced the balloon as a “grotesque display of Jew-hatred,” and calling Waters an “open hater of Jews.”

While the ADL came forward with the acknowledgment of Waters’ leaning towards anti-Semitism, the organization also stated that Waters has a long history of using these symbols in his concerts. “While we wish that Mr. Waters would have avoided using the Star of David, we believe there is no anti-Semitic intent here,” an ADL spokesman said. To be specific, the pig symbol in general comes from the Pink Floyd album “Animals” and the balloons are flown during any rendition of the song “Pigs,” which has an anti-Big Brother, anti-authoritarian tone.

Foxman had defended Waters against accusations of anti-Semitism in an interview with the Associated Press  just  last month. ”His shows deliver messages, breaking down wall, etc. He uses symbolism, and that’s one issue,” Foxman had said. “It’s artistic exuberance and crossing the lines of whatever, but he’s not an anti-Semite.”

And not to single anyone out, Waters also slammed American policies toward the Palestinians during the CounterPunch interview, where he attributed the U.S. mindset to the “Israeli propaganda machine,” whose messages were adapted by the mainstream media. In a call to the public to join the BDS movement, the Times of Israel reported that Waters explained an anticipated backlash from American Jews may serve as a deterrence for them  to support the BDS movement.

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