May 28, 2023
antisemite or anti Israel?
Roger Waters has, in the past, claimed to not be an antisemite but only anti-Israel due to the crimes the State has perpetrated against the Palestinians. Many antisemites have made such claims in the past, though they are often exposed at some point as really just being your average antisemite
Roger Waters revealed himself this past weekend as an average antisemite, perhaps with a bigger platform, and not as the anti-Israel activist he has claimed to be. At a concert in Berlin Waters donner a "Nazi style uniform", though with an emblem of crossed hammers rather than a swastika, along with other Nazi imagery.. supporting the Nazis is simply anti Israel behavior?
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First, the uniform - yes, it looks fascist and that's on purpose. In Pink Floyd's The Wall, the main character,through the course of a life full of of abuse, alcohol and drugs, eventually succumbs to a hallucinatory world. One of the element of that world is a British fascist neo-Nazi movement called The Hammers who are a gang that dress up like Brown Shirts, wear the red arm band with the hammers and riot through the streets of London looking for Jews and minorities to attack. Waters, wearing that uniform, is recreating that scene from the movie, not endorsing Nazism.
ReplyDeletewell, he's now under investigation in Berlin so we'll see how that turns out but there were other pieces as well, such as the pig blimp over the crowd with a star of david and the use of Anne Frank's name in line with the killed journalist....
DeleteOh, no question he's a Jew hating bastard. Making an equivalence between Anne Frank and that journalist screams his anti-Semitism. My point is that the uniform is part of the show and is based on the movie, not an attempt to glorify Naziism.
DeleteI used to be a huge fan of Pink Floyd, and Garnel is 100% right: in the context of the plot of The Wall, the scene does not smack of antisemitism per se. But without over-wokifying (?) things, anyone but a rabid antissemite would not even include such a scene today. RW's credentials as a leading anti-Israel activist long ago crossed the line into old-fashioned antisemitism
DeleteIt's the context. By itself, it's a costume from The Wall. In this concert, with his virulent antiSemitic comments, it's a Nazi-equivalent uniform.
DeleteHe should also have known that such things are, ahem, "sensitive" in Germany, including legally.
DeleteWhy even give him the benefit of the doubt; he was and is an anti-semite and everyone knows it. People also try to say that hating Israel is not hating the Jews and vice versa and that's all baloney. An Israeli is a Jew and a Jew is also an original Israeli, no matter what others and the world try to say. Those who live in Israel who are not Jewish cannot, according to Jewish law, be an Israeli. The only non-Jews who are allowed to reside in the Land are those who live according to the Seven Laws of Noach. (At the present time, anything goes).
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