The similarities between Israel and Nazi Germany are “crushingly obvious,” Pink Floyd band member and anti-Israel activist Roger Waters said. Waters continued his call for a cultural boycott of Israel in an interview with CounterPunch magazine.
Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters defended his cultural boycott of Israel in an interview published over the weekend, accusing Israel of ethnic cleansing and referring to the Jewish state as a racist apartheid regime.
“For an artist to go and play in a country that occupies other people’s land and oppresses them the way Israel does, is plain wrong. They should say no. I would not have played for the Vichy government in occupied France in the Second World War, I would not have played in Berlin either during this time,” Waters said in the interview with online magazine CounterPunch.
Waters compared artists playing concerts in Israel to those who performed in Nazi Germany. “Many people did, back in the day. There were many people that pretended that the oppression of the Jews was not going on. From 1933 until 1946. So this is not a new scenario. Except that this time it’s the Palestinian People being murdered.”
Waters drew criticism in July for displaying a pig-shaped balloon covered with Jewish symbols, including a Star of David, during his concerts, Voice of Russia informs.
