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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  • Awoo [she/her]
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    1 year ago

    I definitely think they've made mistakes with some things in their shows in the past, it's particularly difficult to defend the flying pig with the jewish star, but that was a single show and removed thereafter. Even the ADL defended it at the time as not being antisemitism.

    These are politically motivated attacks on him for his position on Ukraine and being anti-Zionism.

    • Huldra [they/them, it/its]
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      1 year ago

      Also apparently that particular pig had both a cross and a crescent on it, and no one seems to have bothered being concerned about the potential islamophobia of that(general statement, not meant to be accusatory.)