Community | September 30, 2010 | 28 comments

The “Wall”: Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters Promotes Palestinian Jihad

crystalman
File this under “Shut Up & Sing” . . . or Gerontological Studies in Aging, Over-drugged Rock Stars.

Roger Waters continues his “The Wall Live” tour. In this case, the “wall” Waters is referring to isn’t the famous Pink Floyd song Waters helped make famous, it’s Israel’s security fence, which the country was forced to erect to protect its innocent civilians from terrorist attacks–that’s what Waters has a big problem with.

Yup, an aging, irrelevant rock star actually has a whole rock tour to protest Israel’s right to keep its people from being blown to bits at pizza shops. And he’s using anti-Semitic imagery–bombs disguised as Jewish stars/Stars of David falling from the sky followed by dollar signs. Get it? The JOOOS are rich people who bomb those poor defenseless Palestinian terrorists. But, hey, that’s not a stereotype, right?

''The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Monday criticized rock music icon Roger Waters for using imagery long associated with stereotypes about Jews and money as part of a segment of his 2010-2011 “The Wall Live” Tour that takes aim at Israel’s West Bank security fence.

During his performances of “Goodbye Blue Sky,” an animated scene projects images of planes dropping bombs in the shape of Jewish Stars of David followed by dollar signs, according to an interview in the September 30 issue of Rolling Stone.

Waters, 67, is a known left-wing activist who has spoken against Israel’s policy in the territories. “It’s a horrific edifice, this thing,” he told reporters in 2006 as he stood beside a section of the separation fence in Bethlehem.''

In other imagery used in his concert about the wall, he apparently compares Jews to oversexed half-female/half-creatures and monsters. Waters began with his BS message during a 2007 concert in Israel. He was upset that it didn’t go over well, even with his leftist Israeli fans (see video, below). So he decided to make a BS documentary in 2009 and compare the Jews to Nazis, using Warsaw Ghetto references, and protesting that those evil, nasty, vermin Jews actually build homes on their own land. How dare they.

Message for Roger Waters: We don’t need no “education.” Not your version of it, anyway. All in all, you and you’re misinformed, anti-Semitic political opinions are just another brick in the wall . . . and just as relevant.
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  • hombre76
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      hombre76  
    • When dealing with Jew-haters (including the self-haters), in principle you are dealing with morons averse to facts and history. This begs the question - what comes first, their Jew-hatred or their obtuseness? Or can they be seen as distinct and separate?

      Fuck you. You pompous aggrandizing religious fundamentalist. Your hatred of all others who will not bend to Zionist demands of appeasement will be the down fall of the state of Israel just as it was before when you broke your peoples covenant with Jehovah.

    • 1 year ago
  • crystalman
  • freecrack
  • hombre76
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      hombre76  
    • "...nobody with a brain could even pretend it has anything to do with the Jews building in the West Bank or Jeruslem"

      You of course mean a brain controled by the Zionist state? Like Your own Crystalman?

    • 1 year ago
  • freecrack
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      freecrack  
    • hombre76:

      if it were a zionist state to the degree you are implying, the west bank would be judea, gaza still under israeli occupation, and iraq and iran both being invaded.not to mention sania where moses recieved the ten commandents and the torah.

    • 1 year ago
  • crystalman
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      crystalman  
    • The Palestinians (Hamas and Fatah both included) have never accepted Israel's right to exist. Abbas is emphatic on this point, and the Fatah constitution still calls for Israel's destruction. Abbas is a Holocaust Denier who praises terrorists and suicide bombers as "martyrs", calls Hamas "brothers in arms" and attends the unveiling by Fatah "moderates" of a statute of terrorist Dalit Mugrabbi in Ramallah quite recently, she who machine-gunned Jewish men, women and children to death in a bus attack in 1978 near Haifa, where he praises her as a national Palestinian hero.

      The Jews abandoned Gaza and the settlements there, Hamas took over and proceeded to launch hundreds of rockets into Israel resulting in the Gaza War last year, the rocket strikes continue, nobody with a brain could even pretend it has anything to do with the Jews building in the West Bank or Jeruslem. Hezbollah continue to plot Israel's destruction and have amassed thousands of rockets, armed by Syria which plots the same - what does that have to do with the Jews building homes? Where have Hamas and Fatah in the West Bank even pretended to accept Israel's existence to their own people and even pretended such acceptance would come when the Jews abandon their towns in the West Bank? Nowhere. The charter of the PLO from the early 1960s calls for Israel's destruction, no settlements at the time, in fact the West Bank was under Jordanian control. There have been pogroms against Jews over the centuries by Arab Muslims and the Turks - maybe it was the fault of the Jews for having homes to live in.

      Iran seeks to wipe the state of Israel out with nuclear bombs, maybe if the Jews stop building homes Iran will change its plans, right?

      Interesting that people who blame Israel for no peace, either ignore the fact that Abbas is an extremist or else they portray this supporter of suicide bombers and a Holocaust Denier as a peace-loving moderate. Well they would, that's just the point.

      When dealing with Jew-haters (including the self-haters), in principle you are dealing with morons averse to facts and history. This begs the question - what comes first, their Jew-hatred or their obtuseness? Or can they be seen as distinct and separate?

    • 1 year ago
  • crystalman
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      crystalman  
    • So this insufferable jerk Waters hates war…..but doesn’t he realize that his country – and the planet – are free because of war? Obviously not.
      And when it comes to geopolitical discourse, his head is completely up his ass.
      The only reason Israel’s security fence exists is to save Jewish lives.
      But for Roger Waters and his fellow cretins, that’s too much to put up with. If the Muslims had their way, people like Waters would be among the first people killed. The fact that there are no stops in any Islamic countries on this tour says it all. Even he knows that while Christians and Jews in the audience might take offense to the crosses and stars, they aren’t likely to protest in any manner other than vocally. If he were to project that image of falling moon & stars in some soccer stadium in say, Syria or Iran, the band and the entire entourage would probably be taken hostage by the government.
      It’s funny to see him write “We don’t need no thought control” when he’s the one who’s now trying to control people. He actually sang those lyrics at Gore’s last save the earth concert. I’m sure without any hint of irony.

    • 1 year ago
  • hombre76
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      hombre76  
    • "Get it? The JOOOS are rich people who bomb those poor defenseless Palestinian terrorists. But, hey, that’s not a stereotype, right?"

      No thats not a stereotype thats the fucking reality you dumb ass hypocrite.

      "So he decided to make a BS documentary in 2009 and compare the Jews to Nazis, using Warsaw Ghetto references, and protesting that those evil, nasty, vermin Jews actually build homes on their own land. How dare they."

      The land the current and past Israeli settlements is on land captured illegally by Israel during its 69' war and falls outside the land awarded to the Nation of Israel by their benefactors the UN in the specific form of Britain and the USA so yes they are in fact building on land that is not theirs no matter what religious book you claim makes it theirs. The nation of Israel is a disgrace to the people of the first covenant with the One True God. People like you seek only Israel's destruction by making hated by all who love freedom and equal treatment under law.

    • 1 year ago
  • crystalman
  • freecrack
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      freecrack  
    • hombre76:

      you want a dose of reality.you are espousing antisemitism by claiming jews are rich, as i stand before you as living testament proving you wrong, along with millions of others.
      aside from that blatent hate speech, even your political perspective is beyond backwards.
      israel has one of the worst economies in the world.
      israel has very few wealthy people.
      israel has recieved over then thousand rocket attacks in the last decade from the poor defenseless palestinians.israel has suffered hundreds of other various terror attacks from these supposedly defenseless people.
      i dont know in waht world people who have active militias with no shortage of arms, are considered defenseless.

      nice cherry picking of historical facts.the 67 war was the one in wich israel expanded its borders.that expansion was done through conquering territory that was attacking them, just like every other single war through out history.the territories israel aquired were done so not only legaly by any standard, but signed off by syria,egypt,and jordan, as terms of the cease fires with these nations.these nations who were more than willing to give up the palestinian territories by proxy to avoid losing thier own lands, as israel had destroyed thier entire militaries.no religious book makes any land anyones, but the standards and practices of civilizations.we fought mexico for our western half, just the same as israel fought for their southern half.only difference is mexico didnt attack us, the arab world did attack israel.

      those who seek israels destruction, are those who you let cherry pick information for you to conclude a bias perspective.a perspective that ignores palastinian agression in the endevour to show every israeli action as unwarrented.

      how many countries would live with thier nieghbors functioning as the palestinians do, and not destroy them.we get one terror attack ad we go half way around the world, over throw two governments, and destabilize the region.
      israel gets attacked for sport, and just takes it, year after year,decade after decade.

      if israel were like us, the entire middle east would be flying the flag of david over its capitals.

    • 1 year ago
  • rabid3k
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      rabid3k  
    • Wow talk about a biased smear "article..." did you do any research at all besides reading a Rolling Stone article?

      I love how anyone who questions the wisdom of the security "fence" (it's not a fence, people, it's a 20-foot-tall wall with armed guards standing on top of it) or of the very provocative Jewish settlements in the West Bank is automatically labeled anti-Semitic or pro-terrorist.

      It's called nuance folks...

    • 1 year ago
  • crystalman
  • freecrack
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      freecrack  
    • rabid3k:

      true, but you dont acknowledge palestinian provocation along with settler provocation.that seems a tad bias in the smear catagory, especialy when the palestinians have a much greater amount of provocation.unless you think ten thousand rocket attacks are not provocative?

    • 1 year ago
  • freecrack
  • Sparky2U
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      Sparky2U  
    • He should camp out in Isreal where the Rockets land. Might change his tune.
      Honestly, tearing down the wall comments don't really equate with supporting Jihad. Hummm sounds like he was eating mushrooms again.

    • 1 year ago
  • freecrack
  • galwayman
  • freecrack
  • cool0ne
  • crystalman
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      crystalman  
    • cool0ne:

      Nothing cool about you. you have no idea what you're talking about. Go on...specify exactly.....and I mean exactly right down to the square metre...what land is being grabbed. I'm not holding my breath. Best to stay out of this and leave it to the adults.

    • 1 year ago
  • freecrack
  • crystalman
  • hombre76
  • freecrack
  • freecrack
  • curtisreed
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      curtisreed  
    • Man, these rock stars, who have spent decades abusing drugs, end up with a burned out distorted sense of reality and a need to be more important than they really are, and in the end, all they do is RUIN any enjoyment I ever had of their music. Add Roger Waters to the list of other "foolish musicians" such as John Mellancamp, Cheryl Crow, Bruce Springstine, Barb Streisand, Lady Gaga, and so many other empty headed morons behind microphons.

      Just shut up and sing, we don't give a shit what you think about Israel, Palestine, gay marriage, the war in Iraq, etc ad nauseum. SHUT UP

    • 1 year ago
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