Tag: Roger Waters
Roger Waters, Roseanne Barr and Code Pink at Nancy Pelosi home
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, a Democrat, referred to a vocal demonstration outside of the Jewish-owned, Israeli-style falafel restaurant Goldie in Philadelphia on Sunday as “a blatant act of antisemitism—not a peaceful protest.” The protesters chanted...
Academic freedom isn’t an excuse for antisemitism
We’re living in a time when American academic institutions claim to be dedicated to eradicating prejudice. That’s supposedly the point of the pledges to support the diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) mantra that has...
Penn leaders cite academic freedom, allowing event to proceed despite some speakers’ antisemitic history
Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters has drawn widespread criticism for his anti-Israel views and content at his concerts, including wearing a Nazi-style uniform while performing in Germany. Now, he is slated to take part in the “Palestine Writes...
Drop Roger Waters, dozen-plus Jewish groups urge music company
German media conglomerate Bertelsmann announced in 2016 that it had, effectively, told Pink Floyd frontman Rogers Waters “Wish You Were Here” and let’s make “Money” while being “Comfortably Numb” to the chutzpah of a company with...
US calls Roger Waters’s Berlin show antisemitic
The United States has condemned as antisemitic a recent concert in Berlin by Pink Floyd musician and co-founder Roger Waters.
The May 17 performance “contained imagery that is deeply offensive to Jewish people and minimized...
Roger Waters: Israel is trying to create an intifada ‘so they can just kill...
Roger Waters, the former Pink Floyd frontman also known for his vocal criticism of Israel that crosses the line into anti-Semitism, claims in an interview with popular podcaster Joe Rogan that the Jewish state...
Rubio tells media to hold Florida-bound Roger Waters culpable for anti-Semitism
Florida’s Republican Sen. Marco Rubio went on an all-around attack on Pink Floyd co-founder and longtime anti-Israel activist Roger Waters ahead of his tour of Rubio’s state.
Writing in an op-ed for The Floridian, Rubio called Waters out for his recent...
Roger Waters talks of ‘apartheid’ Israel, bashes Golda Meir in online student forum
Former Pink Floyd member and vocal Israel critic Roger Waters bashed Israel, the “settler-colonialists, Zionist movement” and even Golda Meir during an online program to support pro-Palestinian students at McGill University in Canada.
“At the...
Chile: The peril of Daniel Jadue
The anti-Zionist activist Roger Waters, who also doubles up as the bassist of veteran rockers Pink Floyd, gave a ringing endorsement last week to one of the candidates in the Chilean presidential election, which...
‘They own the media:’ Coronavirus anti-Semitism remains lethal
Another one of my musical heroes, sadly, outed himself this week as an anti-Semite. On this occasion, it was the turn of Van Morrison—the consummate blues artist from Belfast in Northern Ireland, whose hoarse...