The Anti-Defamation League has accused Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters of anti-Semitism.
The Guardian reports that the Anti-Defamation League is taking issue with a Jewish symbol being featured in a live video backdrop.
During the performance of ‘Goodbye Blue Sky’ as part of The Wall Live tour, the Star Of David is included alongside many other symbols – Islam’s crescent moon, dollar signs, Shell and Mercedes logos – raining from aeroplanes like bombs.
The ADL’s director, Abe Foxman, sees the inclusion of the Star Of David in close proximity to dollar signs as an anti-Semitic comment.
He said: “The images he has chosen, when put together in the same sequence, cross a line into anti-Semitism. We wish Waters had chosen some other way to convey his political views without playing into and dredging up the worst age-old anti-Semitic stereotype about Jews and their supposed obsession with making money.”
Waters’ partner, Laurie Durning, refuted the claim, telling the New York Post, “This show is unapologetically anti-war and we would really like to put a quick end to any possible rumours of it being in any way negative towards any group of people. It absolutely does not call up any ‘anti-Semitic stereotypes’.”
