Roger Waters

Roger Waters

• Wikipedia: 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

This is the worst westplaining we’ve ever seen. If we were to write a parody of westplaining, we couldn’t think of anything more ridiculous than a wealthy musician explaining to the First Lady of a country facing genocide about her country’s situation through invader propaganda.

Westsplaining

• Pink Floyd lyricist calls Roger Waters an antisemite and ‘Putin apologist’, February 7, 2023

• 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 Calls Putin’s Invasion of Ukraine ‘The Act of a Gangster’, March 9, 2022

• Roger Waters: ‘I called Putin a gangster – that may have been unfair’, February 8, 2023 (archive)
  • Wikipedia: Transfer of Crimea in the Soviet Union

• Celebrity vatnik Roger Water has realised he’s not welcome in countries busy dealing with the imperialism he supports.

• Roger Waters cancels gigs in Poland amid row over Ukraine war comments, September 24, 2022

• Be careful, Europeans! One famous vatnik will be touring Europe and promoting his ideas to hundreds of thousands of people. His name is Roger Waters.

• The Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters released a video today in which he accused the U.S. and its “NATO vassals” of having provoked Russia into invading Ukraine. He also says that the country’s of Central Eastern Europe shouldn’t have been allowed to join NATO.

• Roger Waters writes letter to Olena Zelenska ‘asking Ukraine to stop fighting back against Russia’

https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1573840556156981250

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrcQ6xoHx0Q

• 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.

• https://twitter.com/KareemRifai/status/1574145584658784264

• https://twitter.com/SJ69032798/status/1574148355269107712

• https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/apr/07/pink-floyd-reform-to-support-ukraine

• https://twitter.com/SJ69032798/status/1574148355269107712

• https://twitter.com/regulaverso/status/1574163799732518914 “Putin?”

• https://www.antiwar.com/blog/author/roger_waters/

• https://twitter.com/SJ69032798/status/1574147475962793984

• https://twitter.com/rogerwaters/status/1129118032318685186

• https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/invited-by-russia-roger-waters-tells-un-ukraine-invasion-illegal-2023-02-08/

• Roger Waters Says He’s on Ukraine “Kill List,” Calls Evidence of Russian War Crimes “Lies”

Crimea

• Pink Floyd's Roger Waters Backs Russian Takeover Of Crimea, Causing Backlash

https://twitter.com/HeidiBachram/status/1664692310674755586

UN speech about the russian invasion of Ukraine, on the invader’s behalf (!)

• Official video: Roger Waters, artist and civil peace activist, told the UN Security Council, “The invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Federation was illegal. I condemn it in the strongest possible terms. Also, the Russian invasion of Ukraine was not unprovoked. So, I also condemn the provocateurs in the strongest possible terms.” UNIFEED

• 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 to Speak on Russia’s Behalf at U.N. Security Council Meeting

• Pink Floyd star Roger Waters addresses UN at Russia’s request - after denying ’incendiary’ claims in row with ex-bandmate

• Russian intelligence has assets working on major artists and other influential people. When did they get him? The 80’s? He’s been in touch with SOMEONE, he didn’t just walk into the UN saying he wanted to support Russia. Brian Eno got into this in the 90’s during the Balkan war.

• Roger Waters re-records Dark Side Of The Moon without rest of Pink Floyd, February 9, 2023

• Pink Floyd’s ex-bassist/songwriter Roger Water showed his true colors as an anti-semite pro-Putin tankie, officially representing the Russian govt at the UN bashing Ukraine. Fuck. Roger. Waters. Forever.

• https://twitter.com/pauloCanning/status/1664633789614637057

• https://twitter.com/pauloCanning/status/1666810500108402689

Letters to Ukrainian girl

• Condescending to someone you believe is living this horror with the Bravery of Being Fully deranged. And disingenuous at best. While you take great pains to compare this with the Arab-Israel conflict, I haven’t heard you heard urge the Palestinians to use diplomacy once.

See also

• Westsplaining

Iran

• I deleted the video of Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters showing solidarity with Iran. I had no idea he was an apologist for other authoritarian governments until friends brought it to my attention. 👎🏼

China and Taiwan

• Bad week for Amnesty International & Roger Waters

• Roger Waters goes full Eurasianist “Taiwan is part of China!”

BDS and Antisemitism

Repulsive. From Roger Waters Concert in Cracow, Poland

• Roger Waters, jury member of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine, also addressed the meeting on behalf of civil society organizations active on the question of Palestine.

• Text of Roger Waters’ speech at the UN

• Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People

• 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
    • Doron Goldberg, You stand shoulder to shoulder with 164 years of violence - A letter to Roger Waters

• An Interview with Roger Waters

• Roger Waters broadcasts cancelled in Germany over support for Israel boycott

• Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters compares Israel to the Nazis, July 11, 2017

• Facebook Users Attack Roger Waters After Post Calling Out Scarlett Johansson, February 2, 2014

• Former Pink Floyd frontman sparks fury by comparing Israelis to Nazis

• I just read his interview with the German paper. He has completely lost it. To think that a man whose father died fighting fascists would spend his years of dotage as a mouthpiece for fascists! It’s a depressing spectacle.

• Emmanuel Navon, “You know you’re on the right side of history when Roger Waters is against you. Welcome to the club.”

• Can you point me to where he spoke up for the Palestinians who were besieged, starved, bombed and tortured at the Yarmouk refugee camp? He seemed to have a very benign view of the Syrian regime. And what do you make of his apologia for Putin, the butcher of Grozny and Aleppo?

• An Open Letter to Roger Waters

• Roger Waters gig in Berlin. Unbelievably it gets worse…

• https://twitter.com/OGAride/status/1661132970617458690

• https://twitter.com/__jacker__/status/1661114102716964889

• https://twitter.com/StopAntisemites/status/1661347120765435904
  • https://twitter.com/StopAntisemites/status/1661348374493233155

• https://twitter.com/azoury_ayelet/status/1661300618999263234

• https://twitter.com/StopAntisemites/status/1661404621363978242

• Ex-Floyd frontman Waters in ‘new low’ with Nazi-Israel comparison on latest tour [1]

• Roger Waters begins concert by announcing he is not antisemitic before making comparison between Nazis to Israel [2]

• Roger Waters dresses up as SS officer, compares Anne Frank to Abu Akleh

• Good morning to every one but Roger Waters who spent the evening in Berlin (Yes Berlin) desecrating the memory of Anne Frank and the 6 million Jews murdered in the Holocaust.

• https://twitter.com/ShuratHaDin/status/1661457945249316866

• The scary thing isn’t that Roger Waters is a deranged bigot who dresses like an S.S. officer while flying a pig marked with the Star of David. The scary thing is that such a deranged bigot can fill an arena in Berlin.

• https://twitter.com/__jacker__/status/1661699634664812545

• https://twitter.com/Ostrov_A/status/1661786898438795282

• https://www.thejc.com/news/news/penny-mourdant-to-raise-concerns-with-home-office-over-roger-waters-gig-7HRXvAxWcqGaBWnF1bonSC

• https://www.auschwitz.info/en/press/press-informations/press-information-single/lesen/antisemitism-accusations-administrative-court-allows-roger-waters-performance-in-frankfurt-2826.html

• https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-730864

• Some people are referencing The Wall which uses similar imagery. However, the wall uses generic fascists to mock them. It does not specifically attack Jews or engages current political issues in unambiguous views. Using The Wall to defend his hateful display is done in bad faith.

• I’M NOT AN ANTISEMITE BUT… [3]

• Broke: Roger Waters dressed like a Nazi because he’s a Nazi. Woke: that is a decades-old artistic piece about the dangers of fascism. Bespoke: Roger Waters has become the fascist he satirized through his support of the Putin regime

• 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.”

• bUt hAvE yOu sEeN THE WALL™️* Replies incoming

https://www.facebook.com/rogerwaters/posts/pfbid02FgLn68h8yHeawuYZPa8i6mnUR79jfUWFtyEU9vzxUPgNdS7BCmjHqbQP9wnqeAGgl

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.

• After reading this my theory you have an unresolved child trauma & blame your father’s death being killed by the Nazis on the Jews. This is the only explanation why you constantly attack the jewish people who fight for their existence in their homeland. Get help.

• https://twitter.com/AdamAlbilya/status/1662919239412379651

• Jewish protestors raise Israeli flag, sing at Roger Waters Frankfurt concert

• https://twitter.com/azoury_ayelet/status/1663188320937996289

• It appears that Roger Waters has the endorsement of the former KKK Grand Wizard, David Duke.

• https://twitter.com/Steve_Cooke/status/1663610356122394627

https://twitter.com/OrenKessler/status/1663819665406083073

• https://twitter.com/DavidHirsh/status/1664268987839188994

• https://twitter.com/hearnimator/status/1664264216608374790

• https://twitter.com/antisemitism/status/1664246437658468353

• https://twitter.com/JamesHarrisNow/status/1664365437080031232

• https://twitter.com/Never_Again2020/status/1664293166470537216

• https://twitter.com/transform6789/status/1664769746569510912

• It appears Roger Waters has donned his Nazi-like uniform again. When you know he called Holocaust refugees “a load of Jewish ppl from North-Eastern Europe” and talked of an ominous “Jewish lobby” the uniform starts to feel less satirical.

• https://twitter.com/habibi_uk/status/1665702419429306368

• 5 leftie men talk football. Guess which country is the only one deemed evil enough to ban. Roger Waters wants Israel out of FIFA because “human rights”. Not those with the worst human rights like Saudi Arabia, Iran, China or Egypt. All in FIFA. He singles out the Jewish state.

• https://twitter.com/elderofziyon/status/1666751999616876549

• https://twitter.com/AnneFrankTrust/status/1666760258750914561

• 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

Hamas

• Antisemitism & The Latest Performance of Roger Waters: Nov and Dec 2012

Jeremy Corbyn

• https://twitter.com/habibi_uk/status/1663613506657083395

• https://twitter.com/habibi_uk/status/1664656928687915010

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.

— May 16, 2019 [5]

• Roger Waters: Another star falls from grace due to Syrian civil war

• https://twitter.com/habibi_uk/status/1663909050197725190

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

• #BoycottRogerWaters

Pink Floyd

• Pink Floyd reunite for Ukraine protest song

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)

• GrandTurion, “Vatnik Roger Waters #BoycottRogerWaters 🧵” (thread) (pdf)

• Adam Albilya, Roger Waters: "i'M nOt an aNtiSemiTe, jUst an aNtiZioNiST standing for Hooman Rights!" 🤡 Also Waters: Star of David on A Gigantic Pig's Head: Represting Everything That Is (((Evil))) In The World (thread) (pdf)