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Pink Floyd Founders Call on Rolling Stones to Drop Israel Concert
JC.com ^ | May 2, 2014

Posted on 05/04/2014 2:10:02 PM PDT by nickcarraway

Two founders of the Pink Floyd rock band have called on the Rolling Stones to cancel a concert in Israel in an op-ed for news website Salon.com.

In the article, titled “Why the Rolling Stones shouldn’t play in Israel”, Roger Waters and Nick Mason wrote: “Playing Israel now is the moral equivalent of playing Sun City at the height of South African apartheid.”

The aging rockers added that the Rolling Stones’ Israel concert comes at “a critical time in the global struggle for Palestinian freedom and equal rights.”

The Stones are due to perform on June 4 at Tel Aviv’s Hayarkon Park.

Roger Waters is a longtime backer of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign. Over the past year, he has come under criticism from several Jewish groups, including the Anti-Defamation League, which accused him of antisemitism – an accusation he denies.


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: antisemitism; antizionism; apartheid; bds; boycottnickmason; boycottpinkfloyd; boycottrogerwaters; crs; israel; judeophobes; judeophobia; nickmason; rogerwaters; rollingstones; southafrica; suncity; undertalentedmorons
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To: nickcarraway

Guess they’re convinced by John Effin.


21 posted on 05/04/2014 2:27:42 PM PDT by beethovenfan (If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
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To: Lazamataz; Drew68

I used to love music by Pink Floyd. I listened to their work all the time.

Back in 2004, I went to a Roger Waters concert. I was in a large group of 10-15 people, all good friends.

In retrospect, I should have seen what was coming, but...I didn’t.

It turned into a 3 hour political audiovisual tirade against Bush, neocons, conservatives and Israel, with some music mixed in. It looked like Code Pink put together the slide and video shows they had going on.

I didn’t want to ruin the evening for the people I went with, but I was steaming mad. I grit my teeth and sat there. At the end of the “concert”, they released a 40 foot high ballon of a pig with “F*ck Bush” on one side and “Vote Democrat” on the other.

I have been unable to listen to any Pink Floyd music since then. It STILL pisses me off.


22 posted on 05/04/2014 2:29:30 PM PDT by rlmorel ("A nation, despicable by its weakness, forfeits even the privilege of being neutral." A. Hamilton)
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To: nickcarraway

We don’t need no education...
From the likes of you.


23 posted on 05/04/2014 2:29:36 PM PDT by Ouchthatonehurt ("When you're going through hell, keep going." - Sir Winston Churchill)
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To: bandleader

“Speaking as a Musician,They S*CK!!Speaking as a supporter of The State of Israel,They S*CK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

Also speaking as a musician, I wholeheartedly agree!


24 posted on 05/04/2014 2:33:38 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: nickcarraway

Roger Waters has always been a goofball.


25 posted on 05/04/2014 2:33:56 PM PDT by mylife
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To: plain talk

” He would be slaughtered by just about anyone”

Ah! But Keef has his shiv!


26 posted on 05/04/2014 2:34:31 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: dfwgator

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71CUVJLCGgc


27 posted on 05/04/2014 2:35:52 PM PDT by mylife
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To: nickcarraway

I will never understand the radical progressive left. “There can be no peace in the Mideast until the Arabs love their children more than they hate the Jews”.


28 posted on 05/04/2014 2:38:13 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: nickcarraway

Mr Waters is, at best, foolish. There is no Apartheid in Isreal, Isreali Arabs have political rights,they vote, serve in the Knesset, on the Supreme Court, and are well represented in the civil service. Mr Waters doesn’t understand what Apartheid is. The Stones better not cancel. I grow weary of lurid stupid analogies.


29 posted on 05/04/2014 2:41:44 PM PDT by ronnieb
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To: nickcarraway

“which accused him of antisemitism – an accusation he denies.”

“And that ones a Jew...who let all this riff raff into the room!”


30 posted on 05/04/2014 2:45:14 PM PDT by icwhatudo (Low taxes and less spending in Sodom and Gomorrah is not my idea of a conservative victory)
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To: nickcarraway

Why do such fortunate people turn into such rabid Nazis (and liars)?

They could continue to enjoy a very privileged life ... without smearing themselves and their country trying to invent and throw such rotten filth at innocent people thousands of miles away

Satan is alive and active in the world (at least through his many agents here, even if he is bound up for awhile elsewhere, ha!)


31 posted on 05/04/2014 2:46:52 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ((Brilliant, Profound Tag Line Goes Here, just as soon as I can think of one..))
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To: nickcarraway

Maybe that is why today Netanyahu posted on Facebook that the reasons Jews are called Jews is because they are from Judea.


32 posted on 05/04/2014 2:54:02 PM PDT by huldah1776
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To: nickcarraway

And Floyd Freepers basically threw a hissy fit when I told them Pink Floyd sucked in a couple of threads...

Where are these fools now??


33 posted on 05/04/2014 2:56:42 PM PDT by max americana (fired liberals in our company last election, and I laughed while they cried (true story))
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To: rlmorel

See my post. That’s why I always made sure to piss off the Floyd Freepers before who tried to run me out of the rock threads. But that was just secondary...

I really never got into their shitty music. I’d rather listen to the Stones which is faster music for me.


34 posted on 05/04/2014 2:59:24 PM PDT by max americana (fired liberals in our company last election, and I laughed while they cried (true story))
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To: nickcarraway

“Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there, just nod if you can hear me, is there anyone at home.”


35 posted on 05/04/2014 3:05:40 PM PDT by stockpirate (Only a tidal wave of tyrants blood will return our tree of liberty......)
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To: nickcarraway

Time for Pig Floyd to just disappear.


36 posted on 05/04/2014 3:09:40 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: Hugin
>> "...Roger Waters is an excellent musician Organ sucker" <<
37 posted on 05/04/2014 3:12:44 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: nickcarraway

The display if stoned stupidity is embarrassing, man.


38 posted on 05/04/2014 3:15:09 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: dfwgator

I like that idea LOL!

Yeah I think Keith could do it even he is extra for series Walking dead LOL!


39 posted on 05/04/2014 3:16:33 PM PDT by SevenofNine (We are Freepers, all your media bases belong to us ,resistance is futile)
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To: Lazamataz

I keep Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton on rotation.


40 posted on 05/04/2014 3:16:58 PM PDT by eddie willers
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