Musician refuses to condemn terror onslaught, defends telling Israelis to ‘go back to Eastern Europe or the US or wherever you came from’; Na’amat urges Israeli radio not to play his song
Former Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters said there was “no evidence” that Hamas terrorists raped Israeli women on October 7, in a contentious interview with broadcaster Piers Morgan on Tuesday that mostly focused on the musician’s longtime opposition to the State of Israel.
Explaining that video — in which he later said that Israelis who chose to stay in their homes would be “welcome” in a new Palestinian state — Waters said, “I am in tears over Gaza every morning when I wake up. I’m only 80 years old, I have never experienced the genocide of a whole people in front of my eyes happening every day.”
Waters claimed the war in Gaza is the most important issue impacting the world, calling for Israel to apologize “to the whole human race.”
Waters endorsed Starmer’s opponent in his local race, Andrew Feinstein, as well as a few other candidates, including Leanne Mohamad, a 23-year-old independent of Palestinian descent who described the October 7 onslaught as “a historic sight,” writing “liberation is possible” in a post on X that she later deleted.
On Tuesday, Waters refused to condemn the attack, telling Morgan, “I’m not going to have this conversation.”
Waters then credited several alternative news outlets for “debunking all the filthy, disgusting lies that the Israelis told after October the 7th about burning babies and women being raped,” insisting there was “no evidence whatsoever” of sexual assault.
Responding to accusations of antisemitism, Waters told Morgan, “I’m not antisemitic even very faintly,” adding, “You know who would know if Roger Waters were an antisemite? Roger Waters would know, because I would have feelings about Jews!”
In the final twenty minutes of the interview, Waters accused “Western powers” of “murdering Ukrainians” by encouraging them, “against their will,” to fight off Russia’s 2022 invasion.
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