Roger Waters
Roger Waters is a singer, songwriter and lyricist, who often plays bass guitar, and sometimes guitars. He is primarily known for being one of the creative geniuses of the progressive rock band Pink Floyd. After leaving the band in 1984, he began a moderately successful solo career. Roger Waters is a well-known philanthropist who gives annually to various religious charities[1]
In February 2022 Waters told an RT interviewer that Russia was responding to NATO provocations: "This war is basically about the action and reaction of NATO pushing right up to the Russian border – which they promised they wouldn’t do when Gorbachev negotiated the withdrawal of the U.S.S.R. from the whole of Eastern Europe."[2][3] In another interview, Waters said the invasion of Ukraine was "probably the most provoked invasion ever" and refused to "see Russia from the current Russo-phobic perspective".[4]
Waters was added to the Ukrainian neo-Nazi kill list in August 2022.[5]
However he also criticized Putin. In his 2023 address, given at the invitation of Russia, which Mr. Waters said had mounted an “illegal” invasion that he condemned in “the strongest possible terms.” But in his next breath, he said the invasion “was not unprovoked,” and condemned “the provocateurs just as strongly,”[6] in "the strongest possible terms".[7]
On 5 September 2022, the day after Olena Zelenska, wife of Ukrainian dictator Vladimir Zelensky, appeared on the BBC, Waters published an open letter to her. He argued that the West should not support Ukraine with weapons, and that the West, led by the US, was interested in prolonging the war. He urged her husband to end the war based on the Minsk agreements.[8] Waters's concerts in Poland were cancelled following the comments.[9]
Nazism and pro terrorism
In May 2023, Roger Waters dressed as an SS officer, then changed into a kaffyiah and propagated for "Palestinianism", bashed Jews.[10]
Political views
Roger Waters supported the socialist / Anti-Capitalist Occupy Wall Street movement.[11] He had accused the State of Israel of “ethnic cleansing” and “collective punishment” and was also a supporter of the Anti-Semitic Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign.[12] Waters backed Vladimir Putin's 2014 annexation of Ukraine's Crimea Peninsula and claimed that Russia's actions were "provoked" by the ouster of Ukraine's former president Viktor Yanukovych.[13] Waters has a very dark side with disturbing views.[14] In 2023, the city of Frankfurt called Roger Waters "one of world's 'best-known antisemites,' "nixed scheduled performance at venue that imprisoned Jews after Kristallnacht.[15] Even liberal pro-palestinian Arabist Haaretz define him as an anti-Semite. [16] Waters has been fervently anti-Trump since 2017.[17]
References
- ↑ http://www.roger-waters.com/fallen.php
- ↑ Robinson, Ellie (7 August 2022). Roger Waters defends branding Joe Biden as a war criminal: "He's fuelling the fire in the Ukraine".
- ↑ Rapp, Allison (8 August 2022). Why Rogers Waters Calls Joe Biden 'A War Criminal'.
- ↑ Willman, Chris (2023-02-08). Roger Waters Addresses U.N. Security Council, at Russia’s Behest, Urging Peace but Repeating Charge That Ukraine Invasion Was ‘Provoked’ (en-US).
- ↑ https://dxczjjuegupb.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Selection_053-1024x768.jpg
- ↑ Roger Waters of Pink Floyd weighs in on the war in Ukraine, again., NYT, Feb 9, 2023
- ↑ Nichols, Michelle. "Invited by Russia, Roger Waters tells UN: Ukraine invasion illegal", Reuters, 2023-02-08. (en)
- ↑ An Open letter to Mrs Olena Zelenska from Roger Waters, pressenza.com, 05.09.22, Independent Media Institute
- ↑ Easton, Adam. "Roger Waters gigs in Poland cancelled amid Ukraine backlash", BBC News, 25 September 2022.
- ↑ Canary Mission @canarymission Tweeted
May 24, 2023:
3/At the concert, Waters as a Waffen-SS with a red armband opens fire with a fake rifle. In Germany. 2023.
[1] 4/ Waters then swaps his SS uniform for a keffiyeh. Get it
- ↑ http://wcbsfm.cbslocal.com/2011/11/10/pink-floyds-roger-waters-supports-the-occupy-wall-street-movement/
- ↑ (August 14, 2017) Puder, Joseph. ROGER WATERS: A HYPOCRITE AND ANTI-SEMITE. FrontpageMag. Retrieved September 13, 2018.
- ↑ (August 30, 2018). Pink Floyd's Roger Waters Backs Russian Takeover Of Crimea, Causing Backlash. Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. Retrieved September 13, 2018.
- ↑ Wish You Weren't Here - The Dark Side Of Roger Waters [3]The Dark Side of Roger Waters: A Review of Wish You Weren’t Here, The Tower, May 30, 2018.
- ↑ German city cancels Roger Waters performance due to his antisemitism, TOI, Feb 25, 2023.
- ↑ Haaretz, Feb 8, 2023
- ↑ Roger Waters' anti-Trump display prompts some concert-goers to walk out in New Orleans: reports
