Roger Waters
“ Sadly Roger Waters you are antisemitic to your rotten core. Also a Putin apologist and a lying, thieving, hypocritical, tax-avoiding, lip-synching, misogynistic, sick-with-envy, megalomaniac. Enough of your nonsense.
- — Polly Samson, February 6, 2023 (David Gilmour: “Every word demonstrably true”)
russia, Ukraine, russian invasion of Ukraine, Putin
- Berliner Zeitung Interview, February 3, 2023
- Original: Berliner Zeitung, Roger Waters: „Bringt eure Regierungen dazu, den Krieg zu beenden“, 3. Februar 2023 (cache) (archive)
- Roger Waters: ‘I called Putin a gangster – that may have been unfair’, February 8, 2023 (archive)
- Roger Waters cancels gigs in Poland amid row over Ukraine war comments, September 24, 2022
https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1573840556156981250
- https://twitter.com/wonderercat/status/1574059285809864704 Just be out with it. You’re just a hateful, spiteful, prejudiced excuse of a human being. Whatever your beef is with the 🇺🇸/🇪🇺/NATO, a decent human being would stand wholeheartedly with 🇺🇦. Whatever one’s opinions are, it should be clear that the aggressor is 🇷🇺. Not you.
In June 2009 he spoke against the Israeli West Bank barrier[130] and later that year, pledged his support to the Gaza Freedom March. In 2011 he announced that he had joined the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement in solidarity with Palestinians against Israeli occupation
https://twitter.com/BadBalticTakes/status/1567211821714530320
- https://twitter.com/EliotHiggins/status/1574027846539915264 Always nice to see a new wave of people discovering Roger Waters is a terrible person.
Crimea
https://twitter.com/HeidiBachram/status/1664692310674755586
UN speech about the russian invasion of Ukraine, on the invader’s behalf (!)
- Full speech transcript: Roger Waters full speech at the UN security council
- russian official confirming invitation: “I can confirm: for tomorrow’s UN Security Council briefing on prospects of peaceful settlement of crisis around Ukraine in the context of increasing Western arms deliveries to this country we invited as a briefer famous British Musician and rock-musician Roger Waters”
- Dmitry Medvedev, “In the UN, Roger Waters is razing the “Wall” of lies built by the West. Shine On You Crazy Diamond!”
- Ukraine denounces Roger Waters as ‘another brick in the wall’ of Moscow propaganda, February 8, 2023 (archive)
- Roger Waters re-records Dark Side Of The Moon without rest of Pink Floyd, February 9, 2023
Letters to Ukrainian girl
See also
Iran
China and Taiwan
BDS and Antisemitism
- Useful Stooges
- Poisonous Waters, November 2, 2015
- Roger Waters and the B.S. of BDS, November 3, 2015
- Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, The Anti-Semitic Stench of Pink Floyd
- He don’t want no education, November 4, 2015
- Lilac Sigan, How Roger Waters is Failing the Palestinian Children
- “Lessons” from Roger Waters, November 5, 2015
- Mark Menachem Blacknell, To Roger Waters, from a fellow musician who couldn’t disagree more
- Roger Waters v. Bon Jovi, November 6, 2015
- Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters compares Israel to the Nazis, July 11, 2017
- Emmanuel Navon, “You know you’re on the right side of history when Roger Waters is against you. Welcome to the club.”
- Roger Waters begins concert by announcing he is not antisemitic before making comparison between Nazis to Israel [2]
- Oz Katerji, “Literally every single leftist still defending Roger Waters in 2023 is specifically letting Jews, Syrians and Ukrainians know exactly how they feel about them. There’s no excusing ignorance of this bigot’s decades-long, rancid extremism & atrocity revisionism.”
A Statement from Roger Waters on the controversy over his Berlin Concert My recent performance in Berlin has attracted bad faith attacks from those who want to smear and silence me because they disagree with my political views and moral principles. The elements of my performance that have been questioned are quite clearly a statement in opposition to fascism, injustice, and bigotry in all its forms. Attempts to portray those elements as something else are disingenuous and politically motivated. The depiction of an unhinged fascist demagogue has been a feature of my shows since Pink Floyd’s “The Wall” in 1980. I have spent my entire life speaking out against authoritarianism and oppression wherever I see it. When I was a child after the war, the name of Anne Frank was often spoken in our house, she became a permanent reminder of what happens when fascism is left unchecked. My parents fought the Nazis in World War II, with my father paying the ultimate price. Regardless of the consequences of the attacks against me, I will continue to condemn injustice and all those who perpetrate it.
https://twitter.com/OrenKessler/status/1663819665406083073
- Holocaust survivor's daughter evicted from Roger Waters' O2 arena gig as singer faces anti-semitism accusations [4]
https://twitter.com/lilbuddymax/status/1666881388207800337
https://twitter.com/OneLifeStand87/status/1666577483771047938
https://twitter.com/habibi_uk/status/1666899440957808648
https://twitter.com/antisemitism/status/1667645930416242688
https://twitter.com/bobfrombrockley/status/1667534633687195650
https://twitter.com/HeidiBachram/status/1667533463505739777
Hamas
Jeremy Corbyn
David Duke
https://twitter.com/habibi_uk/status/1667530572288147462
Syria
“ A note from Roger: In light of the new evidence from an OPCW engineers report, leaked to ’Working Group on Syria, Propaganda and Media’, previously suppressed by the OPCW themselves, about the alleged chemical attack in Douma on April the 7th last year, I hope Jonathan Freedland and The Guardian newspaper will have the good grace to print an un-reserved apology for their scurrilous ad hominem attack on me, in The Guardian on the 20th April 2018, after I had stood up on stage in Barcelona on April the 13th and denounced the White Helmets patently concocted story for what it was. The White Helmets probably murdered 34 women and children to dress the scene that sorry day in Douma, and I hope Jonathan Freedman and others including the governments of the United States, the UK and the Republic of France, who bought into the White Helmet’s callous and murderous fairytale are suitably haunted by the indelible images of those lost innocent Syrian lives. How do they sleep? Love R.
https://twitter.com/florida_sophia/status/1664738247933673474
- Sophie Fullerton, Since Roger Waters is trending I would like to remind you his politics and ethics have always been horrid. During a concert in 2018 Waters smeared the White Helmets, a rescue group working in opposition held Syria, as “jihadists.” As of 2018 the group had saved 114,000 lives (thread) (pdf)
Hashtags
Pink Floyd
Threads
- Pekka Kallioniemi, “In today’s #vatniksoup, I’ll introduce a British musician and activist, Roger Waters (@rogerwaters). He’s best-known for his involvement in Pink Floyd, and for his love for the totalitarian regimes and their lies around the world.”, May 30, 2023 (thread) (pdf)
