Several African nations resort to genocidal behavior with alarming regularity. North Korea starves its population, while Iranian leaders call for the annihilation of Israel.Īnd yet Roger Waters and his colleagues who promote the boycott single out Israel for isolation. Despotic Arab and Muslim countries for decades have lacked the rule of law, political plurality, and cage and/or murder dissidents while denying women and minorities equal rights (see Egypt, Syria, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, to name a few). Thousands of Syrians and Egyptians are mowed down in the streets, as Christians throughout the Middle East dwindle through murder and forced emigration under threat by the Muslim majority, as Syria commits war crimes by using chemical weapons against its own people. Russia continues on a czarist trajectory. Foxman might be on to something.Ĭhina oppresses millions. “Anti-Semitism” as a charge must be judiciously invoked, if for no other reason than it devalues those actual instances. “Your single-minded obsession with trying to convince others to boycott the Jewish state, while ignoring the world’s true human rights violators, must be driven by something other than a guilty conscience,” Foxman wrote. Waters drew a harsh rebuke from Abe Foxman, National Director of the Anti-Defamation League. Waters didn’t realize what he was saying, his bedfellows certainly did catch its true meaning.
#ROGER WATERS ISRAEL CODE#
“Occupied Palestine” is longstanding code for the land between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, in other words, the state of Israel. “Please join me and all our brothers and sisters in global civil society in proclaiming our rejection of Apartheid in Israel and occupied Palestine, by pledging not to perform or exhibit in Israel or accept any award or funding from any institution linked to the government of Israel, until such time as Israel complies with international law and universal principles of human rights,” Waters wrote.
He made news when in an open letter in August when he used his pop artist’s platform for renewing BDS’s call on musicians everywhere to boycott Israel. Meek and obedient you follow the leader,” he sings.Īnd follow the leader is what Mr. “What do you get for pretending the danger's not real/
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