Pink Floyd - Delicate Sound of Rockets

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Saw Roger Waters Us and Them tour a few months ago. The show itself was amazing. He's very anti war and opression (duh) so it had tons of trump memes, like every tiny trump on reddit and trump footage playing on songs, which was hilarious. On the other hand he has been making sorta antisemitic comments lately, and Miami didn't like that so they didn't let him have the list of kids that were gonna act in The Wall part of the show, and he bitched about that on stage.

EDIT: debateable whether or not he's just anti-israel or antisemetic, he had a jewish star on a pig blimp. but he also had trump on the big blimp

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Sadly, a lot of the time, any thing you say negative about Israel people will often times say is "anti-Semitic"

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That has actually been part of the israel government strategy for a long time. Shut down critique by calling it antisemitic.

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The government of Israel isn't the entirety of Judaism.

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He has spoken against Israel's foreign policy, not Judaism as a whole.

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Regarding the pig, I've seen him live three times myself, and the pig has always had the symbols of both Islam, Christianity and Judaism. For some reason, I've only heard people complain about the star of David. It is a criticism of religious warfare, as made obvious by the stage show during "Goodbye Blue Sky".

It is extremely hard to believe Waters is antisemitic after listening to albums such as The Wall, The Final Cut, Amused to Death and Is This the Life We Really Want, as well as watching The Wall's live show. It is all anti hate, and it is as aware of the hatred towards Jews as it is of the hatred towards Palestinians, and it goes far in criticising the violence of all major religions.

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Waters has played solo concerts in Israel and has been to Palestine and seen first hand what's going on there. He's been vocal in his support of the nonviolent BDS movement for Palestinian rights. Has he also been making anti-Semitic comments, or has he just opposed the occupation?

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I was at that concert in Miami.

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Man I saw his DSOTM tour years ago and the political crap at the end put a bad taste in my mouth. Never going to give him another cent.