Roger Waters Calls Bono an 'Enormous S-' After Israel Tribute

Roger Waters, a loud and constant critic of Israel, has ideas on Bono’s salute to the victims of the October 7 assault on the Supernova music pageant by Hamas.

Waters describes Bono’s tribute, which occurred throughout one among U2’s residency exhibits on the Sphere in Las Vegas, as “disgusting” whereas labeling Bono “an enormous shit.”

The feedback that incensed Pink Floyd’s former mastermind arrived earlier than U2 launched into “Pride (In the Name of Love)” again in October. “In the light of what’s happened in Israel and Gaza, a song about non-violence seems somewhat ridiculous, even laughable, but our prayers have always been for peace and for non-violence,” Bono told the crowd. “But our hearts and our anger, you know where that’s pointed. So sing with us … and those beautiful kids at that music festival.”

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The band then performed an up to date model of their Top 5 1984 hit, altering a lyric that when centered on the day that Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated: “Early morning, Oct. 7, the sun is rising in the desert sky … Stars of David, they took your life but they could not take your pride.”

Months later, Waters stays angered. “Anybody who knows Bono should go and pick him up by his ankles and shake him … until he stops being an enormous shit,” Waters tells Al Jazeera, the Qatar-funded information outlet primarily based within the Middle East.

“We have to start saying to these people, your opinion is so disgusting and so degrading … sticking up for the Zionist entity,” Waters added. “What he did a couple of weeks ago in the Sphere in Las Vegas, singing about the Stars of David, was one of the most disgusting things I’ve ever seen in my life.”

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Waters additionally appeared to suggest that folks like Bono merely hadn’t completed sufficient analysis on the matter. “My mother told me, when faced with difficult problems, the first thing to do is to read — read, read, read,” Waters mentioned. “Then, the next part is easy: Do the right thing.”

Meanwhile, he is been the topic of a brand new documentary titled The Dark Side of Roger Waters, produced by the Campaign Against Anti-Semitism. Waters says his criticism is geared toward Israel, relatively than Judaism, and has accused critics of “abusing the term ‘anti-Semitism’ to intimidate people like me into silence.”