Victoria Nuland, deputy secretary of State, says a Saudi normalization deal with Israel will assure Palestinians that the “prospect of a two-state solution stay vibrant and strong.” She’s lying through her teeth.
Roger Waters’s advocacy for Palestine shook the State Department briefing room, as a reporter questioned why a Biden aide has echoed the smear that Waters’s performance of “The Wall” is an example of Jew hatred, failing to see that it is in fact a denunciation of fascism akin to Charlie Chaplin’s portrayal of “the great dictator.”
The political battle over the future of Israel and Palestine is coming to New York, and that is good news for all who care about Palestinian freedom.
Recent attacks against Roger Waters are the latest example of false accusations of antisemitism being weaponized to defend Israeli apartheid.
“The antisemitism that these people who canceled my show are talking about is my continual, incessant criticism of the government of the state of Israel,” Roger Waters, says of Frankfurt canceling his show. “I’m so happy to be in the ring with these assholes.”
Jonathan Greenblatt of the Anti-Defamation League is calling for a battle inside Jewish religious denominations against anti-Zionist Jews. Greenblatt spoke to the World Zionist Organization conference in August in Basel, Switzerland, and said that anti-Zionism is antisemitism, but even some Jews “traffic” in it and that “threat” must be taken on by religious groups and the Democratic Party too.
A few years ago it felt like Roger Waters might be blacklisted by Israel supporters over his support for Palestine. But this summer he is filling stadiums around the country talking about Palestinian liberation.
Roger Waters offers his solidarity to student activists at McGill University after B’nai Brith announced they would help sue the school over a newly adopted Palestine solidarity policy.
A highlight of the Israel lobby conference held at the National Press Club by the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs last Friday was a speech by singer/songwriter Roger Waters in which he read from letters to musicians urging them not to play Israel in line with the call of the BDS campaign. When Australian singer Nick Cave performed in Israel in 2018, he rejected Roger Waters and Brian Eno’s call to respect the BDS boycott campaign, saying it was “cowardly and shameful.” Waters says he responded to the “louche” artist with disbelief, rage and sorrow. “We hurl our glasses in the fire of your arrogant unconcern and smash our bracelets on the rock of your implacable indifference.”
The South Florida Sun Sentinel called progressive State Rep. Omari Hardy him “the future of the Florida Democratic Party” in endorsing him for Congress. And that terrifies the Democratic Majority for Israel, which is seeking to block his progress because he supports BDS and Palestinian human rights.