Bad news for lying antisemite Roger Waters.
A British court determined in a preliminary ruling that Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters defamed John Ware, a veteran journalist who made a documentary critical of Waters’s anti-Semitic history, when he called Ware a “lying, conniving Zionist mouthpiece” who supports the “genocide of the Palestinian people.” The development puts both Waters and the Hamas-friendly network Al Jazeera on the hook for damages.
In the Tuesday ruling, the British High Court of Justice found that Waters’s “statements are defamatory” because they were offered as fact, not opinion. The decision sets the stage for Ware to receive financial compensation not just from Waters but also from Al Jazeera, the Arab network funded in large part by the Hamas-friendly nation of Qatar. Waters’s comments targeting Ware came during a 2024 interview on the Al Jazeera network, which Ware sued in addition to Waters. The case could go to trial to determine damages, though barrister Simon Myerson predicted that Waters and Al Jazeera will settle with Ware.
Ware, a documentarian who produced a 2023 film examining Waters’s vast anti-Israel advocacy, sued the musician and Al Jazeera last year. Waters appeared on Al Jazeera to bash Ware’s film and accused the journalist of “cheerleading the genocide of the Palestinian people like almost more than anyone else on earth.”
Excellent. Maybe others, like Canadian activist Dahlia Kurtz, can also sue Waters, for claiming a similar thing about her.
By the way, isn’t it interesting how Waters never tried to sue John Ware over his documentary claiming Waters is an antisemite.
Probably because Waters understood truth is a defense to defamation claims.
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