Waters RT interview - was Re: Roger Waters shut down

[Zenaan Harkness]

Roger Waters, RT interview on the shut it down:

      "The reason [the anti-Semitism accusations are] brought up so often is so that we will not address the fundamental issue of whether what I say is true or not."


  Israel-Palestine issue is glaring example of how some people have rights and some don’t – Roger Waters to RT
  https://www.rt.com/news/480799-roger-waters-israel-critics-antisemitism/

    Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters, facing a campaign to deplatform him from SXSW after B’nai B’rith got his ads pulled from Major League Baseball, told RT the accusations of anti-Semitism are a distraction from human rights.

    The musician and activist slammed the campaign by the pro-Israel activist group B’nai B’rith to smear him as an anti-Semite and have him removed from the South by Southwest (SXSW) music festival in Austin, Texas, where he is scheduled to give the keynote speech to an audience of hundreds of thousands of people.

    In an interview with RT, Waters explained that the spurious anti-Semitism accusations are part of a deliberate and massive campaign to distract from Israeli human rights abuses.

    “It muddies the waters over one very specific issue, which is the issue of the settler-colonial occupation of the land of Palestine by Israeli armed forces… human rights should be something that is fundamental, that applies to all people equally,” Waters said. “Clearly the Israel-Palestine issue is a glaring example of somewhere where some people have rights and some people don’t.”

      "The reason [the anti-Semitism accusations are] brought up so often is so that we will not address the fundamental issue of whether what I say is true or not."

    Waters also referred to the sinister effort by “nebulous NGO” the International Holocaust Remembrance Association to actually redefine the word “anti-Semitism,” expanding the meaning of the word to include “any criticism of the policies both domestic and foreign of the state of Israel as being inherently anti-Semitic.”

    While the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement Waters supports has falsely been equated with anti-Semitism by the deep-pocketed Israeli Ministry of Strategic Affairs, a government agency devoted specifically to neutralizing the movement, he explained that BDS has “consistently, constantly and unequivocally stated that it is against all forms of ‘isms’” – including, but not limited to, anti-Semitism.

    Speaking to his critics in the Israel lobby, Waters admonished them for hiding behind the Jewish people, not all of whom support the policies of Tel Aviv.

    “You need to come up with a defense for your side of the argument – for whether it is correct or not for the Israeli government to be operating a system of apartheid in the country that used to be called Palestine.”

      "We need to be able to look at these things without slinging mud and calling people names that don’t fit."

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On Sun, Feb 09, 2020 at 10:37:41AM +1100, Zig the N.g wrote:
> In a bit of "who could have predicted this" true news, Roger Waters
> gets shut down:
> 
>   Roger Waters Gets Shut Down by the Jews! Baseball Ads Canceled!
>   http://dstormer6em3i4km.onion/roger-waters-gets-shut-down-by-the-jews-baseball-ads-canceled/
> 
>     This boomer hippie is pure evil.
> 
>     Telling the most powerful group of people on earth to stop
>     slaughtering primitive brown villagers is pure hatred for the
>     color of the – er, pure hatred for the length of the nose!
> 
>     How dare this boomer rock n’ roller advocate for human rights in
>     Palestine!
> 
>     https://www.rt.com/news/480384-roger-waters-mlb-bds-israel/
> 
>       Major League Baseball (MLB) has stopped running promotions of
>       Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters on its platforms, after
>       caving in to pressure from a Jewish group that accused him of
>       anti-Semitism.
> 
>       In January, Jewish advocacy organization B’nai B’rith
>       International began a campaign to protest ads for Waters’ new
>       tour, ‘This is Not a Drill’, which appeared on MLB platforms.
>       The group claimed that the musician is an “avowed anti-Semite”
>       whose views on Israel “far exceed the boundaries of civil
>       discourse.”
> 
>       ...
>       Concerning his own support for BDS, Waters has previously
>       stated that the boycott movement “exists at the request of
>       Palestine civil society as a whole” and is among the “most
>       admirable” displays of resistance in the world.
> 
>     I don’t even very much like Palestinians, but he may be correct
>     that this is the most admirable display of resistance in the
>     world.
> 
>     Who else is resisting the Jews?
> 
>     ... we can all sleep better knowing that the former frontman of
>     Pink Floyd can no longer show advertisements at baseball games.
> 
>     This is the struggle for a world free of hatred, where no one is
>     ever allowed to question anything Jews do, no matter what.
> 
> 
> Only exactly TWO (2) questions here:
> 
>   1.  Is it OK to be anti-White?
> 
>   2.  Is it OK to be anti-Semitic?
> 
>   3.  Is it OK to be Jewish?
> 
> 
> In other, only slightly satyrical news, Greta "Whypeople Change The
> Climate" Thunderberger has had another climate conference, and single
> handedly (with absolutely no support from her father) guilt tripping
> all HuWhyPeople on the indisputed fact that y'all upset about Ilhan
> Omar:
> 
>   Ilhan Omar Accused Of Appropriating Alabama Culture
>   By Marrying Relative
>   https://babylonbee.com/news/ilhan-omar-accused-of-appropriating-southern-culture-by-marrying-relative
> 
> Actually, Greta is of course teensplainin' that White people are
> changing the climate:
> 
>   Young Africans Rally to Demand That White People Change
>   the Weather in Africa
>   http://dstormer6em3i4km.onion/young-africans-rally-to-demand-that-white-people-change-the-weather-in-africa/
> 
>     ... "I suggested they could take jobs in a bank"
> 
>     ... The primary goal of the Greta Thunberg global warming
>     movement should be to convince white people that it is their
>     fault that Africa is poor, and if they do not do something to
>     make it two degrees colder in Africa, they will soon be overrun
>     by billions of Africans.
> 
> At least pitbulls are doing their bit, snacking on their owners:
> 
>   Pitbull Attack Results in Man’s Death – By Crossbow!
>   http://dstormer6em3i4km.onion/pitbull-attack-results-in-mans-death-by-crossbow/
> 
>     ... Since when do pitbulls ignore delicious young children and
>     instead try to devour crusty old Black guys?
> 
> Ahh, pitbulls - fighting against clime change, one carbon polluter at
> a time :)