Zionist Campaign Against Roger Waters
The Zionist lobby campaign against Pink Floyd singer Roger Waters has intensified. This time, it started directly with the official Twitter account for the Zionist entity.
The lie began when Israel tweeted the words, "Good morning to everyone but Roger Waters, who spent the evening in Berlin (yes, Berlin) desecrating the memory of Anne Frank and the 6 million Jews murdered in the Holocaust." But of course quite the opposite was true; Waters had sought to honour the memory of Anne Frank, among others in his show, but it turns out that was exactly what the Zionists really took issue with.
Dany Danon, chairman of Netanyahu's Likud Party, then tweeted, "At a Berlin concert, @RogerWaters compared Anne Frank to Shireen Abu Akleh... Waters seeks to compare Israel to the Nazis. He is disgracefully one of the biggest Jew haters of our time."
Adding to this high-powered pile-on came Deborah Lipstadt, recently appointed US Special Envoy for Combating Antisemitism. She tweeted that she supported an EU official's condemnation of Waters and that he was responsible for "despicable Holocaust distortion."
This naked attempt to decontextualize the content of his live show and whip up a social media storm then began to reveal its aim. Deplatforming the Pink Floyd figure from future shows. The insufferable lobby group, the Board of Deputies, which has a "close working relationship with the Israeli embassy," then entered the fray.
The statement by the Board of Deputies lamented that it was "very concerning that someone with a history of such comments will shortly be appearing at venues around the country." The aim was to deplatform Waters from his UK shows.
The instrument in Parliament would be MP Christian Wakeford. A former member of the Conservative Friends of Israel and now a member of the Labour Friends of Israel, he called for Waters to not be platformed in Manchester. The ever-servile Keir Starmer scuttled into the picture to give his backing to the absurd claims from the Board of Deputies.
The Labour Party leader sent a letter to the BOD denouncing Waters as "clearly espousing antisemitic views" and supporting his deplatforming. Waters, for his part, responded to Wakeford from the stage in the London O2 Arena, stating, "You are making things up because you've been told to by your masters in the foreign office in Tel Aviv." Has the lobby bitten off more than it can chew this time?
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