Roger Waters Targeted With Boycott by German Jewish Group

BERLIN (AP) — A Jewish group in the German city of Duesseldorf is urging a boycott of an upcoming concert by former Pink Floyd band member Roger Waters for using an inflatable pig featuring a Star of David during his show.

The director of the Jewish Community in Duesseldorf, Michael Szentei-Heise, said in a statement Thursday that Waters was an "intellectual arsonist" whose stage act used "anti-Semitic and National Socialist" imagery.

Waters, who could not immediately be reached for comment, is to perform his show "The Wall" in Duesseldorf on Sept. 6.

The English musician has previously rebuffed critics of the show, which has been performed about 200 times in the last three years, by saying it isn't intended to be anti-Semitic.

The inflatable pig also features other religious, political and corporate symbols.

Roger Waters Targeted With Boycott by German Jewish Group (Report)

A Jewish group is calling for a boycott of an upcoming concert by former Pink Floyd leader Roger Waters, claiming that the musician uses anti-Semitic imagery in his current tour.

In his show "The Wall," Rogers uses an inflatable pig with a Star of David on it as a stage prop, though the pig also has other religious, political and corporate emblems emblazoned on it.

Michael Szentei-Heise, the director of the Jewish Community in Dusseldorf, urged the boycott of Walters' Sept. 6 concert in the German city, the Associated Press reports.

In a statement, Szentei-Heise accuses Waters of employing "anti-Semitic and National Socialist" imagery. He also characterizes Waters as an "intellectual arsonist."

Waters -- who according to reports has urged musicians not to perform in Israel -- has denied charges of anti-Semitism that have been leveled at him. Responding to an open letter from Anti-Defamation League national director Abraham H. Foxman, Waters wrote, "For the record I am not anti-Semitic, neither is my theatrical piece The Wall and nor are any of the props, puppets or projections in that work."

However, Waters added, "You are right in saying that I have attacked The Israeli Governments' policies in Gaza, the West Bank, and in Israel itself."

Roger Waters Proves Hypocrisy of Israel Boycott Advocates Roger Waters, formerly of rock band Pink Floyd fame, has learned how absurd it is to demand that speech be shut down, and has come to see the virtue of open-mindedness and tolerance. At least when it comes to his own speech and tolerance for his own brand of intolerance.

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HADRIAN'S CURSE –– THE INVENTION OF PALESTINE

by Tsafrir Ronen

   

 

The Invention of Palestine as a Psychological Weapon for Conquering Eretz Yisrael

 

Summary

Almost 2,000 years ago, the Roman Emperor Hadrian cursed the Jewish People and decreed that Judea should be henceforth called "Palestine" after the Philistines, an ancient enemy of Israel that had disappeared from the world's stage more than 600 years earlier. It was his final twist of the knife and legacy after wars, massacres, persecutions, and exiles that had largely extinguished the Jewish presence from Judea.
 

Today, the modern enemies of a resurrected Jewish Nation have dusted off Hadrian's curse and are attempting to pull off a monumental theft: the Arab world have reincarnated "Palestine" to steal Israel's heritage and the Land of the Jewish People.

Hadrian's Curse will expose the BIG lie of the "Palestinian cause" in a full-length 120-minute documentary. The film will document that there never was a "Palestinian" people, The world has become so accustomed to the "truth" of the "Palestinian" perversion of history and work backwards, exposing recent claims and acts whose absurdity and villainy shock uninformed observers.

When Arafat declared: "Our nation is the Arabic nation that stretches from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea and beyond it", it turns out that Arafat's nation already stretches over an area larger than all of Europe.

His is the twisted story of one of the biggest, most remarkable fraud in history. It is such a successful fabrication that many otherwise informed people have been duped and mislead. This propaganda has become a powerful weapon used Israel's enemies, the Arabs, to try to conquer Eretz Yisrael without firing a shot, without an army, tanks or jets. The Jewish People eventually bested Hadrian. They returned to their land and reestablished sovereignty over it.

They rebuilt Jerusalem as their capital, and resettled desolate Judea. They did all this only to now confront the reincarnated curse of Hadrian in the guise of Arabs renaming themselves "Palestinians" and claiming all the ancient Land as their own.

As explained in the film, many Israelis and lovers of Zion have accepted this misnaming and misidentification. Hadrian's ancient curse now threatens Israel's very existence. Israel's success and endurance and the world's hope for peace in the 21st century, demands that the deceit and danger of a Palestinian state must be exposed and avoided. It is our fervent hope that Hadrian's Curse will expose the historical truth. 

Read More: http://www.think-israel.org/ronen.hadriancurse.html
 

Murky Waters: "Roger Waters hates me."

By: Howard Morton

Like many teenagers growing up in 1970s America, my definition of “hero” was someone who could attack a power chord on an electric guitar and make it wail. My bedroom walls were plastered with posters of such “heroes” as Led Zeppelin, the Who and the Beatles. But it was singer-songwriter-bassist Roger Waters of Pink Floyd who had a special place in my teenaged heart.
 
And now Roger Waters hates me.
 
Before his hatred of me became obsession-driven and public, I was a big fan. In fact, I’m hard pressed to recall a significant high-school memory that’s not attached to a Pink Floyd song. Roger Waters’s gloomy lyrics and atmospheric arrangements appealed to my adolescent angst. And I was especially grateful to Waters for creating Pink Floyd’s 1979 mega-hit album, “The Wall,” which helped put a nail or two on the coffin of disco.


 

Roger Waters - image by Ben Cook, Shutterstock.com

 
But we grow up and realize that sometimes our heroes are actually villains.
 
Though it’s been decades since I was a teenager (at least physically), a part of my adolescence ended when Roger Waters appeared before the United Nations last November, demonizing Israel and lying about Hamas’s real intentions toward the Jewish state.
 
In his testimony before the UN, Waters portrayed Israel as an international criminal guilty of “ethnic cleansing and apartheid.” At the same time, he lauded the terrorist group Hamas as a lover of peace. He said, “Hamas is open to permanent peace with Israel if there is total withdrawal to the 1967 borders.” He added, “I know you all know this, but where I live they don’t know this, they don’t know that that is the position of Hamas. So I’m telling them.”
 
What they also don’t know, which Roger Waters conveniently omitted, is that Article Seven of the Hamas Covenant calls for the killing of all Jews.
 
In his closing statement, Waters pleaded for the UN to, “seize this historic moment” and “declare Israel’s continued membership of the UN to be dependent on reform of its illegal apartheid regime.”
 
Yet it’s not just the UN Roger Waters wants to go after Israel. He wants other musicians to join in the fun, too.
 
As recently as last month, Waters told Electric Intifada, a pro-Palestinian website, that he asked fellow musicians to join him in boycotting Israel — though he wouldn’t say who these musicians are. But he did say he helped persuade Stevie Wonder to cancel a scheduled concert in Israel to benefit the Israeli army.
 
Since the Hamas-loving Roger Waters hates Israel so much, he automatically hates Jews. After all, anti-Zionism is really anti-Semitism. 
 
And that means my adolescent hero also hates me.
 
For those of us Jews who grew up with Pink Floyd songs as our teen-years soundtrack, the revelation of Roger Waters as a virulent Jew hater comes as a bit of a blow. But not as a complete surprise. 
 
The curious case of Roger Waters as a “hero” to classic rock fans who turned into the hero of terrorists is an extreme one. But it’s not unexpected to see that our Western cultural “heroes” are far from hero-like upon a closer look. 
 
And I’ve seen my fair share of “heroes” close up.
 
I was at a party with one of the world’s best-selling rock groups of all time (having sold over 80 million albums) and watched them feed their alcohol addiction by frantically gulping whiskey in tall glasses as though it was lemonade. Another time, I saw one of the world’s biggest comedic movie stars too strung out on narcotics too move or speak. And then there was the time I was at a Hollywood producer’s home and a famous TV actress brazenly revealed to me she was committing adultery with that producer.
 
Hardly the stuff of heroes.
 
Yet the celebrity-worshiping Western culture we live in prizes its “heroes” and places a high price tag for a souvenir (an angry note John Lennon wrote to Paul McCartney after the Beatles broke up is expected to fetch up to $50,000 at an upcoming auction).
 
And since pop culture values all things physical (beauty, wealth, athletic ability, musical talent), the real heroes remain out of the spotlight. The real heroes are those who build their spiritual strength, who work on elevating their souls and help others do the same.
 
Since I became observant, Roger Waters has long been replaced as a “hero” of mine by real heroes. The list of real heroes are too long to list, but at the top of my hero list are such spiritual greats as Rebbe Nachman of Breslev, who worked tirelessly to become a true tzadik (righteous person) and taught us how to get close to Hashem  through personal prayer (and many other methods). And Reb Natan of Breslev, who overcame unimaginable obstacles to keep Rebbe Nachman’s fire alive. And the Chafetz Chaim, who spoke to Hashem daily, rid himself of any trace of anger and taught us how to guard our tongues.
 
Also on the list are all those today who struggle to attain emuna and spread it throughout the world.
 
These are heroes. Defenders of terrorists like Roger Waters who can create best-selling albums are not.

Source: breslev.co.il