“I’m really glad that you guys don’t have one. The long-time campaigner against nuclear weapons continued by saying the world would be a better place if no bombs existed. Shortly before launching into his hit song ‘Mother’, he paused for effect before telling the thousands of fans waiting on his every word: “What else do I like about Canada? You don’t have a f*****g bomb! How cool is that?” he said.

Live from his concert at Vancouver’s Rogers Arena last weekend, Waters highlighted the plight of Palestinians by projecting images of the Separation Wall during the Pink Floyd song ‘Us and Them’, as well as that of Syrian refugees, the subject of his song The Last Refugee , from his latest album ‘Is This the World You Really Want?’ Instead, he has been speaking about his support for Palestinian rights and refugees to audiences in Canada and the US. He told the Electronic Intifada that a boycott of the Jewish state was 'the most effective way because the Israeli government runs an apartheid regime.Vancouver, Canada: During his marathon North American tour ‘Us + Them’, Roger Waters has been dogged by protests and a film was made about him accusing him of anti-Semitism.īut the 74-year-old Pink Floyd co-founder has not curbed his outspoken views. The former Pink Floyd rock veteran called in March on other musicians such as Alicia Keys to boycott performing in Israel. Pink's conversion into a fascist dictator is just the last, hallucinatory step in his descent into hell, which will be over only when his inner judge orders him to 'tear down the wall'. The self-imposed isolation is represented by a metaphorical wall. The Wall is a rock opera that explores abandoment and isolation and uses strong symbolism and imaginery to tell the story of Pink, a character Roger Waters modelled on himself. 'For this most recent tour, the pig appears to have numerous symbols, including a hammer, dollar signs, and sickle and a small Star of David,' Gutnick explained. The song is written from the point of view of the anti-hero who imagines himself turning into a Nazi dictator. The pig floated over the crowd during the song Run Like Hell. 'We believe there's no anti-Semitic intent here in the use of the Star of David symbol.' 'This is the same thing he's been doing for years,' said Todd Gutnick, director of media relations. 'Waters crossed the line and gave expression to an anti-Semitic message, beyond all his messages of anti-militancy.'īut the Anti-Defamation League said that the pig was not new and in context was not anti-Semitic.

'That was the only religious-national symbol which appeared among other symbols for fascism, dictatorship and oppression of people,'Alon Onfus Asif told daily Yediot Ahronot. Israelis in Belgium were reportedly shocked at the sight of the Star of David on the blowup pig. The stunt, performed at a show in Belgium, angered other Jewish organisations including the Simon Wiesenthal Centre who called Waters - a well-known activist in the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel - 'an open hater of Jews'. The Jewish watchdog Anti-Defamation League has defended British rock star Roger Waters, a critic of Israel, after he released a pig-shaped balloon decorated with a Star of David over his stage performance of The Wall. The inflatable pig floats above the audience during the Roger Waters' performance of The Wall in Belgium

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