Roger Waters Guilty – of support for Palestinian rights
Mike Cushman and Leah Levane appeared on the Not the Andrew Marr Show to talk about the malicious and inaccurate attacks on Roger Waters. They analysed the attempts to silence him and explained how campaign against him when it is was not outright falsehoods was convoluted misrepresentations designed to place him in a bad light. They also described the pain such allegations cause, even to someone so robust as Waters. Those hurling the abuse declaim their own pain but are oblivious to the hurt they cause others.
Roger Waters was indeed guilty of support for Palestinian rights, an offence in the eyes of his critics as bad as or worse than the antisemitism he was falsely accused of.
Worth pointing out that despite the various interventions and attempts to stop the concerts discussed in this video the shows went ahead, even getting a 5 star review in the Telegraph
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/what-to-listen-to/roger-waters-this-is-not-a-drill-utilita-birmingham-review/
Why after 40 years is Waters performance suddenly seen as antisemitic when it is an obvious attack on fascism. You have to ask if it has anything to do with Walter’s defence of Palestinian rights which so often draws the “anti-Semitism” slur when referring to Israeli occupation, illegal Jewish-only settlements or apartheid.
The Nazis killed Waters’s father when Waters was 6 months old. If you’re going to accuse someone of “distorting” and “minimizing” the Holocaust or claim antisemitism you better well offer some specific evidence to back up that claim, which Starmer & Zionist apologists failed miserably to do.
Difficult to process the scale of the gaslighting & misinformation aimed at socialists opposing apartheid
All of this palaver quite simply shows that Starmer must be got rid of as fast as possible. He is in grave danger of promoting real antisemitism with his hatred. Does he not realise that the lies and other harm he is spouting go damnably contrary to what Moses was telling the people. It may well be that the problem is by-passed with the formation of a new Party. I just hope folks get on with that job quickly (if behind the scenes, to minimise sabotage), so we get away from Fascism and back to democracy in Britain.
Read Arthur Miller’s play, The Crucible, or better still go and see it. The inspiration of those behind the spurious accusations of whatever they define as anti-Semitism, could, with a suitable degree of evil intent, have been lifted straight from it’s pages.
remember this from Soweto uprising in South Africa, thousands joined together to demand end to the apartheid state of South Africa state violence, they came together to demand boycott of apartheid South Africa, the same applies to Palestinian civil society call which has called on the international community to boycott apartheid state of Israel, through sports academic world artists this can be achieved if we are united
This is all part of Israel’s attacks against anyone in a position to influence people.
University Lecturers, Politicians, famous Actors, Singers etc. it will never end, it will change over time, as they complete the taking over of the whole of Palestine and the small number of Palestinians that stay, will be too small to keep up the protesting. I feel bad saying this but it’s because nothing has ever changed since I was first aware of the politics of Israel and Palestine, if it was any other Country, I’m sure they would not be getting away with it.
Just watched this. For the record, Mike is mistaken when he says Blair Peach was killed at Red Lion Square. Blair, a teacher in East London, was killed by members of the Metropolitan Police’s Special Patrol Group, on the 23rd April 1979, in Southall, when he and some companions were walking away from the earlier protest against a National Front rally in the centre of Southall. At the approximate time of Blair’s death, I was being held in Southall police station having myself been badly beaten up by the police.