Roger Waters Rails Against Israel — Again

There are few political tragedies in rock music that transcend that which has devoured the once-great Roger Waters.

Known for his visionary contributions to concept albums, including the all-time classic, “The Wall,” Waters has become a pathetic mouthpiece for Palestinian terrorists.

“Encourage the government of Israel to end the occupation.”

Waters has been an outspoken supporter of the blatantly anti-Semitic “Boycott, Divestiture, and Sanctions” movement directed against the State of Israel. This calls upon creative artists to boycott playing in Israel, among other hate strategies, to protest the “occupation of Palestine.”

Waters has demonstrated himself to be a singular fool regarding the facts of the conflict that has torn up the Middle East for decades, ignorantly calling Israel an “apartheid state.” He’s also said that Palestinian rockets are “completely useless, everybody knows it. They might hit something, but they won’t. And if they do, they might kill one person, or two people, and very occasionally they do … Rockets never hit anything — or very occasionally they blow a few chunks out of a tree somewhere.”

At the big Desert Trip Concert in Los Angeles these past two weekends, Waters was at it again. Before 75,000 people, he took time to bash Donald Trump and proclaimed, “I’m going to send out all my most heartfelt love and support to all those young people on the campuses of the universities of California who are standing up for their brothers and sisters in Palestine … and encourage the government of Israel to end the occupation.”

The comments were met with “tepid” response, as Billboard reported.

Waters continues to repeat the same lie regarding “occupation,” a lie intended to delegitimize Israel.

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The land is neither “Palestinian,” nor is it “occupied.” The 1917 British Balfour Declaration created the concept of a homeland for Jews in an area that was called Palestine at the time. In 1922, the League of Nations gave Britain the Mandate for Palestine, which would establish that homeland, and 75 percent of which was later taken away and given to what is now called Jordan. The United Nations divided the remaining land for Jews and Arabs. The Jews accepted the division, the Arabs didn’t, and five Arab armies subsequently invaded.

Yet the world is treated to Waters’ bulbous, drug-addled Palestinian propaganda at major events. This comes on the heels of Waters reuniting with the two other surviving members of Pink Floyd to protest Israel’s ongoing blockade of Gaza because of its terrorist activities.

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Waters and his former bandmates chose to do this to support a PR stunt by “the Women of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla.” Their only purpose was to sail to Gaza, but they were lawfully intercepted by the Israeli Defense Forces Navy. The Israeli Navy had exhausted diplomatic channels and advised the boat to change course, but it tried to continue anyway before being redirected.

There is a sad and terribly irony in Waters’ slide into moral bankruptcy.

At its heart, “The Wall” is an allegory of human alienation resulting from the walls built between people and between nations. Waters’ greatest feat was staging the epic concert at Potsdamer Platz a mere nine months after the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 — specifically, the location of the previous no man’s land between East and West Berlin.

There, before a crowd of more than 100,000, Waters was joined by The Scorpions, Cyndi Lauper, Bryan Adams, Thomas Dolby, Joni Mitchell, Van Morrison, and even members of the Band of the Combined Soviet Forces in Germany and the Red Army Chorus to commemorate one of the greatest moments of freedom in modern history. It was a sight to behold, emotional and significant, and as of today — sullied by Waters’ misguided excursion into terrorist politics.