The Biden administration is weighing in on the controversy over Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters, saying his recent performances in Germany were antisemitic, an assessment shared by many in Israel and the pro-Israel community. The State Department said Tuesday that Waters has “a long track record of using antisemitic tropes" and a concert he gave late last month in Germany “contained imagery that is deeply offensive to Jewish people and minimized the Holocaust.”

“I am sick & disgusted by Roger Waters’ obsession to belittle and trivialize the Shoah & the sarcastic way in which he delights in trampling on the victims, systematically murdered by the Nazis,” [EU antisemitism envoy] von Schnurbein wrote. “In Germany. Enough is enough.”

yes this is still about him honoring a victim of the Israel's genocide alongside Anne Frank

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  • HumanBehaviorByBjork [any, undecided]
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    1 year ago

    for what? literally what does this have to do with the US government? this is fucking celebrity gossip. no one in this story is an amerikkkan.

    • MoneyIsTheDeepState [comrade/them,he/him]
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      1 year ago

      Looks like the core of the article is a written statement from the U.S. State Department, reaffirming a quote-tweet by Deborah Lipstadt, the U.S. special envoy to combat antisemitism:

      “The concert in question, which took place in Berlin, contained imagery that is deeply offensive to Jewish people and minimized the Holocaust," the department said. “The artist in question has a long track record of using antisemitic tropes to denigrate Jewish people.”

      Maybe next we'll hear from the energy department that they have secret proof that Waters is antisemitic

      • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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        1 year ago

        Remember; The state department is quietly not-so-quietly supporting the Baltic's :balticsburning: "Double Holocaust" narrative right now to get support from the Baltics, fascists in Ukraine, and other Eastern European revisionists.