The schism between Pink Floyd legends David Gilmour and Roger Waters has simply been taken to a brand new excessive after Gilmour backed his spouse Polly Samson’s tweet condemning Waters as “antisemitic to your rotten core,” “misogynistic” and a complete lot extra. It additionally prompted a lightweight response from the estranged bassist.
Yesterday (Feb. 6), Samson (a journalist and novelist who married Gilmour in 1994 and has contributed to Pink Floyd releases) tweeted at Waters:
Sadly, @rogerwaters you’re antisemitic to your rotten core. Also, a Putin apologist and a mendacity, thieving, hypocritical, tax-avoidong, lip-synching, misogynistic, sick-with-envy, megalomaniac. Enough of your nonsense.
Gilmour then retweeted Samson’s message and mentioned, “Every word demonstrably true.”
Samson’s message seems to be spurred by one thing Waters posted sooner or later earlier (Feb. 5) the place he tweeted a hyperlink to an interview with German newspaper Berliner Zeitung on his personal web site in response to the “Israeli Lobby trying to cancel my 85 percent SOLD OUT series of concerts in Germany.”
In the tweet, he wrote:
THE TRUTH WILL SET US FREE
Against the backdrop of the outrageous and despicable smear marketing campaign by the ISRAELI LOBBY to denounce me as an ANTI-SEMITE, WHICH I AM NOT, NEVER HAVE BEEN and NEVER WILL BE.
Acknowledging Samson’s message, the bassist shared a picture with textual content laid over it, calling the “incendiary” claims “wildly inaccurate” whereas declaring uncertainty as to easy methods to proceed.
The full response reads:
Roger Waters is conscious of the incendiary and wildly inaccurate feedback made about him on Twitter by Polly Samson which he refutes solely. He is presently taking recommendation as to his place.
In current years particularly, Waters has come underneath growing scrutiny for his political outlook and different associated world views.
In June of 2019, Disturbed frontman David Draiman (who since returning to Twitter early final yr has used his platform to increase consciousness for rampant antisemitism worldwide) known as out Waters and “his Nazi comrades” over their help for the BDS motion (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions).
The motion’s web site states, “The PLO [Palestinian Liberation Organization], the BDS movement and Palestinian civil society and human rights organizations issue a historic call to intensify global pressure to dismantle Israel’s regime of settler-colonialism and apartheid.”
Draiman described the BDS as a motion as one thing predicated on “a special hatred that exists for the Jewish people in this world.”
The singer later went on to accuse Waters of sympathizing with leaders of socialist and communist regimes.
“This is a guy who just celebrated getting a gift of a guitar from Nicolás Maduro from Venezuela, for god’s sake — one of the most brutal dictators in the world, who has been massacring his own people, starving his own people,” Draiman cited after calling Waters a “very sick man” for his opposition to the BDS motion.
More just lately, in September of final yr, Waters penned an open letter to Olena Zelenska, First Lady of Ukraine and spouse of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, urging the nation to barter a peaceable ceasefire whereas condemning western nations for supplying arms to Ukrainian fighters. She, in flip, challenged Waters to ask Russian President Vladimir Putin for peace, which resulted in Waters issuing an open letter to Putin.
In this letter, Waters echoed issues of different nations that Russia’s warfare in opposition to Ukraine has potential spill over to extra hostile invasions of close by international locations and, if that’s the case, “fuck you [to Putin].” He instantly adopted up this remark with a shoulder-shrugging perspective that every one is misplaced and the world’s main powers “might as well all stop playing the desperately dangerous game of nuclear chicken that the hawks on both sides of the Atlantic seem so comfortable with, and have at it. Yup, just blow each other and the world to smithereens.”
Acknowledging this consequence shouldn’t be excellent, Waters then expressed concern his his youngsters and grandchildren, so it will as an alternative simply be higher to not finish the world with apocalyptic devastation.
He once more took a cynical perspective towards NATO and the U.S., asking Putin to hammer out a binding settlement that will forestall him from invading one other nation ever once more. “I know, I know, the USA and NATO invade other sovereign countries at the drop of a hat, or a few barrels of oil, but that doesn’t mean you should,” whereas noting the “heinous war of aggression” waged in opposition to Ukraine took him abruptly whereas leaving the door open that Russia was maybe provoked into launching the offensive.
Shortly after posting this open letter, Waters claimed his identify is “on a kill list supported by the Ukrainian government.” In that very same interview the place these claims have been made, he additionally denied proof of warfare crimes dedicated by Russia in Ukraine and got here to the nation’s protection.
“You’ve seen it on what I’ve simply described to you as western propaganda. It’s precisely the obverse of saying, Russian propaganda, Russians interfered with our election, Russians did that. It’s all lies, lies, lies, lies,” Waters argued, despite the federal grand jury’s 2018 indictment of 11 Russian military intelligence officers “for his or her alleged roles in interfering with the 2016 United States (U.S.) election.
As a outcome of these actions, it has been rumored that Waters jeopardized a $500 million deal for the sale of Pink Floyd’s catalog rights to 1 of a number of bidders, resembling Sony Music, Warner Music, BMG, Primary Wave and Hipgnosis Songs Capital.
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