Rock legend Roger Waters has denied suggestions he is anti-Jewish, angrily insisting: “My father died fighting the Nazis.”
The Pink Floyd star hit back in an open letter after he was taunted for urging a boycott of Israel over its policies towards Palestinians.
Jewish tycoon Gerald Ronson last week claimed the musician “insists he is only anti-Israel – and isn’t, of course, anti-Semitic”.
The implied slur drove Waters, 70, to write: “My father, the son of a coal miner, taught divinity, history and English in Jerusalem and died in Italy in 1944, fighting the Nazi menace. Do not presume to preach to me about anti-Semitism or human rights. Full story...
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The Pink Floyd star hit back in an open letter after he was taunted for urging a boycott of Israel over its policies towards Palestinians.
Jewish tycoon Gerald Ronson last week claimed the musician “insists he is only anti-Israel – and isn’t, of course, anti-Semitic”.
The implied slur drove Waters, 70, to write: “My father, the son of a coal miner, taught divinity, history and English in Jerusalem and died in Italy in 1944, fighting the Nazi menace. Do not presume to preach to me about anti-Semitism or human rights. Full story...
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