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ROGER WATERS: WISH YOU WEREN’T HERE
“At various points in the interview, Waters suggested that the Israeli government intentionally allowed the Hamas slaughter to happen, appeared to deny there was any systematic killing of civilians by Hamas, and defended a video he published on YouTube advising Israelis to “go back to Eastern Europe or the United States or wherever you came from.”
It’s hard to find a more despicable person than Roger Waters, even on the campus of Harvard University.
Waters is infamous for working Nazi symbolism into his concerts, which are essentially platforms for spreading Jew hatred. Waters goosesteps and sieg heils on stage, floats a balloon pig festooned with swastikas and Jewish stars, and promotes the Protocols of the Elders of Zion and other anti-semitic conspiracy theories.
Off stage, he embraces radical Islamic terrorists and his fellow Holocaust deniers.
Now he’s denying the October 7 pogrom, and spreading the lie that Israelis all came from Eastern Europe and should go back there. (At least 60% of Israeli Jews trace their backgrounds to non-Western nations, largely North Africa, but also Iraq, Ethiopia, Yemen, Iran, and Turkey.)
Waters is a neo-Nazi, lying, conspiracy theorist who is despised and loathed by his famous former bandmate, the great guitarist David Gilmour. Pink Floyd became a better group the day he left them. No one on earth except Waters holds any ill-will towards David Gilmour, but wherever one goes, they find people who cannot stand the…