Roger Waters is coming to Nashville on Aug. Bon Jovi went ahead with the concert and told the crowd: “I’ll come here any time you want.Statement from Mark S, Freedman, Jewish Federation of Nashville and Middle Tennessee Executive Director He can’t f-in’ deal with it.” Waters responded in a Rolling Stone interview that he didn’t want to “waste a single one of precious breaths” addressing Stern’s comments. “Israel has a tiny little country, and it bugs the s- out of Roger Waters. “What is with Roger Waters and the Jews?” Stern said at the beginning of a seven-minute rant on his Sirius XM radio show. The Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Rabbi Abraham Cooper subsequently called Waters an “open hater of Jews.” “I hold your outburst to be inflammatory and un-helpful and would suggest it can only impede progress towards peace and understanding between people,” Waters responded in a Facebook post.Īfter Waters accused Jon Bon Jovi of supporting Jewish terrorists by agreeing to perform in Tel Aviv, Jewish firebrand radio host Howard Stern felt the need to respond. July 2013: Star of David balloon controversyĪt a performance in Belgium, Waters wore a faux-Nazi uniform and pantomimed firing a fake machine gun underneath a large pig-shaped balloon emblazoned with a Star of David.
“This is, however, a plea to my colleagues in the music industry, and also to artists in other disciplines, to join this cultural boycott.” In the article, he discussed his pivotal visit to the security barrier in 2006 and noted that Palestinian children had chanted lyrics from “Another Brick in the Wall” outside the barrier in 2005.
“This is not an attack on the people of Israel,” Waters declared in announcing that he was joining the BDS movement in an Op-Ed in the Guardian. March 2011: Waters officially joins BDS movement The former Pink Floyd singer (who played without any of his former bandmates) dressed up on tour in a black jacket with a red armband, an apparent parody of a Waffen SS officer. Some of the show’s theatrics – such as juxtaposed projected images of Stars of David and money signs – drew the ire of the Anti-Defamation League, which issued a statement condemning Waters. 2010: Controversial new “The Wall” world tourįor the first time since the 1980s, Waters took “The Wall” back on a massive and successful world tour that lasted for about three years. “The reason for walls is always fear, whether it’s the personal walls we build around ourselves or walls like this,” Waters says in the film’s opening sequence, alluding to the fence. Waters narrated “Walled Horizons,” a short film produced by the United Nations in Jerusalem, which sharply criticized the security barrier.
film on West Bank barrier, narrated by Waters Posted by United Nations Palestine Rights Committee on Friday, April 23, 2010Īpril 2010: Release of U.N. It was also screened at the UN Meeting of Civil Society in Support of the Palestinian People, held in Vienna on 26 March 2010. The film is narrated by Roger Waters, a founding member of Pink Floyd, who is famous for the song “The Wall.” The film depicts the damaging impact of the separation wall on Palestinians. The documentary was produced by the UN in Jerusalem to mark five years since the issuance of the International Court of Justice’s Advisory Opinion regarding the separation wall in the Occupied West Bank. On 21 April 2010, the Committee screened "Walled Horizons" at UN Headquarters in New York.