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

    Hey! :maybe-later-honey: We're also prioritizing Freedom

    Also fr, if you're going to cancel an old rock star, you'll have to reach past a lot of low-hanging fruit if you want to pick Waters. Elvis, Mick Jagger, Stephen Tyler, and Axel gunsNrosesguy just off the top of my head