Rock’n’roll BDSHole Roger Waters has been interviewed on BBC’s HARDTalk about his life, career and politics.
Needless to say, the interviewer brings up the subject of his anti-Israel views and alleged antisemitism.
The below video will play from the relevant point.
Note the following:
- How agitated Waters gets when questioned on this subject
- Waters states the ADL”purports to be set up to protect Judaism and the Jewish faith and the Jewish people from defamation.” This is not entirely true. The ADL was founded “to stop the defamation of the Jewish people and to secure justice and fair treatment to all.”
- Waters claims in 2010, the ADL decided his show was satire and not antisemitism. But this is misleading. The ADL showed much concern about antisemitic images in the show back in 2010, even if they did not think Waters himself was antisemitic.
New York, NY, October 5, 2010 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today issued the following open letter to Pink Floyd bassist Roger Waters concerning the Star of David imagery in his “The Wall Show” concert tour.
Dear Mr. Waters,
I am convinced, after reading your open letter to me in The Independent, that you misunderstand our concerns about your concert production and, specifically, its use of the Star of David imagery followed by dollar signs in “Good Bye Blue Sky.” I hope this open letter will clarify ADL’s concerns and set the record straight.
First of all, let me be perfectly clear that I have never accused you or “The Wall Show” of anti-Semitism. I take you at your word that you had no intention of imparting an anti-Semitic message, either through the imagery projected on the wall, or through references to Israel’s security fence.
We have carefully watched the video montage from your show and understand it as being an anti-war statement.
Our concern is, quite simply, the order of the imagery employed. When the Star of David is immediately followed with dollar signs, it creates linkage between Jews and money. Seeing the images in that order is shocking to many people, Jewish and non-Jewish, who are aware of and sensitive to the old stereotype of the money-grubbing Jew.
We, too, have heard from many of your fans who have attended the concerts in the States and were shocked by the decision to immediately follow the Star of David with dollar signs.
We would ask, out of sensitivity to those who might be offended, that you change the order of the symbols so that the dollar signs are made to appear elsewhere in the show. For us, it would put this matter entirely to rest.
That simple change would go a long way to allay our concerns, and those of concertgoers and others who believe that the current production seems to call up the old canard about greedy Jews and money.
I look forward to your response.
Sincerely,
Abraham H. Foxman
National Director
Anti-Defamation League