{"id":107420,"date":"2023-09-29T17:00:12","date_gmt":"2023-09-29T15:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=107420"},"modified":"2023-09-29T07:41:16","modified_gmt":"2023-09-29T05:41:16","slug":"07-00-92","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=107420","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Take Away This Jew Food!\u2019 New Documentary Exposes Roger Waters\u2019 Antisemitic Barbs"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>\u2018Take Away This Jew Food!\u2019 New Documentary Exposes Roger Waters\u2019 Antisemitic Barbs<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n

Ben Cohen<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Roger Waters called Pink Floyd agent a \u2018f***ing Jew\u2019, producer claims<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Former Pink Floyd vocalist Roger Waters\u2019 stringent denials that he is personally antisemitic suffered a major blow on Thursday with the release of a new documentary in which fellow musicians detailed his long record of anti-Jewish barbs.<\/span><\/p>\n

Fronted by the British investigative journalist John Ware and produced by the Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA), a UK-based advocacy organization, the film \u2014 titled \u201cThe Dark Side of Roger Waters\u201d \u2014 features extensive interviews with legendary producer Bob Ezrin and saxophonist Norbert Statchel, both of whom are Jewish, in which they recalled several occasions when Waters uttered antisemitic remarks. A vocal supporter of the so-called \u201cBoycott, Divestment, and Sanctions\u201d (BDS) movement targeting the State of Israel who has depicted the media and music industries as slavishly following \u201cZionist\u201d imperatives, Waters has always taken offense at the suggestion that his stridently anti-Zionist views are rooted in a personal antipathy towards Jews.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ezrin \u2014 the producer of Pink Floyd\u2019s classic 1979 album \u201cThe Wall\u201d who has worked with artists from Alice Cooper to Taylor Swift \u2014 offered a nuanced view of Waters\u2019 psyche, depicting him as an intelligent person and highly gifted musician with strongly narcissistic tendencies.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cNot only were Roger and I partners in the music, we were also friends,\u201d Ezrin said with a wry smile. \u201cRoger\u2019s a really complicated guy. He is exquisitely sensitive and insensitive at the same time.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Among the several anecdotes related by Ezrin was one concerning an impromptu song that Waters wrote about Bryan Morrison, Pink Floyd\u2019s Jewish agent. \u201cI can\u2019t remember the exact circumstance, but something like, you know \u2026 the last line of the couplet was \u2018cos Morrie is a f\u2013king Jew,’\u201d Ezrin said. \u201cIt was my first inclination that there may be some antisemitism under the surface.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Asked how he responded, Ezrin replied, \u201cYou know, I\u2019m embarrassed to say that I was so shocked, I didn\u2019t say anything.\u201d He added that the remark had been made early on in their relationship. \u201cI chalked it up to stupidity on his part and also what I understood to be a kind of nascent antisemitism that existed in England and many places around the world,\u201d said Ezrin.<\/span><\/p>\n

Statchel meanwhile outlined his ordeal as a saxophonist performing with Waters\u2019 backing band on tour, emphasizing that challenging the singer over his antisemitic comments would have cost him his job.<\/span><\/p>\n

Statchel said that when he told Waters that his family were Ashkenazi Jews and that most of his father\u2019s relatives had been murdered during the Holocaust, the singer offered to introduce him to \u201cyour dead grandmother,\u201d launching into a hackneyed imitation of how he imagined a Polish Jewish woman might speak.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHe put on an impression of an old hag,\u201d Statchel remembered. \u201cIt was kind of like a slapstick, insulting way that someone would think a person of no education and low class, and maybe not real smart, would speak.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

On another occasion, Statchel joined Waters and other band members for dinner at a Lebanese restaurant. Waters and other members of the party became angry when they realized that all the dishes carried out by the wait staff were vegetarian, and contained no meat. \u201cFinally the 12th or 13th dish came out, and the waiter seemed intimidated already by the loudness, and the personalities, and the arrogance,\u201d he said. \u201cRoger kind of pushes it with his arm, and he goes, \u2018That\u2019s it! Where\u2019s the meat? This is Jew food, what\u2019s with this Jew food? Take away the Jew food!’\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The film also revealed a series of emails that Waters sent to colleagues producing his live show, proposing in one communication that the inflatable flying pig which is a prominent feature of his concerts be embossed with the words \u201cdirty k-ke\u201d \u2014 a particularly offensive antisemitic slur. It also pointed to Waters\u2019 most recent tour in which he mounted a graphic display that compared the killing of Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, allegedly by an Israeli soldier, with the fate of Anne Frank, the young Jewish girl who perished during the Holocaust and whose wartime diary of life in hiding in Amsterdam was published posthumously.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cDo I think he considers himself to be an antisemite? I\u2019ll bet you dollars for doughnuts he does not and he will be the first person to say: \u2018I\u2019m not anti anything, I am in favor of everyone,’\u201d Ezrin observed. \u201cBut as a person with a powerful public platform, he has a responsibility to understand that what he does affects other people, and so he may not be one, but he walks like one, he quacks like one, he swims like one, so from my point of view he\u2019s functionally a duck.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The documentary\u2019s release coincides with the latest scandal involving Waters, who claimed he was prevented from speaking at a pro-Palestinian event at the\u00a0University of Pennsylvania<\/a>\u00a0last weekend. The university authorities countered that their understanding was that Waters would appear virtually, and that security arrangements to accommodate his physical presence had not been made.<\/span><\/p>\n

Earlier this year, a five-city tour by Waters in Germany was met with protests and demands for the cancellation of the concerts.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cA valuable asset such as freedom of expression and freedom of art must never be misused as a license for antisemitism,\u201d Senator Joe Chialo of the center-right CDU Party in Berlin\u00a0declared prior to Waters\u2019 concert in the German capital<\/a>\u00a0in May. Referring to the Star of David that appeared on the inflatable pig used by the singer, Chialo added: \u201cThese actions \u2014 like the BDS campaign he is associated with \u2014 are nothing but antisemitic.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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