Waters, true to form, held his own throughout the interview itself. In turn, Israel is able to easily carry out its inhumane crimes against the Palestinian people with impunity, which unfortunately it has enjoyed too long.įor the two reasons described, I was particularly curious about what I’d find in the Waters interview, leading me to read it only shortly after he posted it. Nobody should get away with that, all the more so as it ultimately aims to intimidate others into being silent about unnecessary suffering. It’s at once slanderous and tries to suppress the truth of the unnecessary suffering of the Palestinian people, at the hands of Israel, by dishonestly framing such a revelation as hateful. He should be lauded for this not only for the courage it involves but because if he wins it’ll establish an important precedent, sending a message to other misguided governments around the world: censoring pro-Palestinian artists is both wrong and impermissible.Īnd if you do so on the baseless grounds that being pro-Palestinian is “antisemitic” you should be further disciplined. Waters however is suing the Municipality. Secondly, the interview is on the heels of the Municipality of Frankfurt deciding to ban Rogers from performing in the German city, on account of the false charge that he’s “antisemitic” for being an avid supporter of Palestinian rights, including his own involvement in the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement-non-violently aiming to pressure Israel to stop its systematic and violent oppression of the Palestinian people. In an age where many-especially online-hide behind images and digital representations they’ve created of themselves, he remains honest, transparent, and open about what he does when he does it. Waters, refreshingly (and no pun intended), shoots from the hip. Waters typically shares posts, even the less political and more musical, with some kind of description speaking to why he did so. I thought this was interesting for at least two reasons. The post itself was a link to an article featuring an interview he did with the German news outlet, Der Spiegel. What was interesting about it for me was that it had no caption. Recently, I came across an online post made by well-known musician and pro-Palestinian activist, Rogers Waters, on his Facebook account.
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