The Dark Side of Roger Waters: A Review of Wish You Weren’t Here

[TomSea]

The Dark Side of Roger Waters: A Review of Wish You Weren’t Here
by David Gerstman | 05.30.18 5:50 pm

Somewhere in the middle of the movie Wish you Weren’t Here, Ian Halperin’s devastating critique of Roger Waters and the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign, former Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz noted that Waters not only targets Israel, but also uses blatantly anti-Semitic imagery, and concludes that Waters is “a good singer and a horrible bigot.”

This is one of the themes running through the film: the contrast between the artist and his beliefs.

Waters’ artistry is an important part of this story as David Renzer, the CEO of Spirit Music and co-founder of Creative Community for Peace said, “We have to take him seriously in that he is still one of the top-drawing artists in the world, he comes from a legendary band, Pink Floyd, and, so he comes with a lot of credibility in terms of his track record in music.” Whenever an artist announces an intent to visit Israel, Waters will target him and pressure him not to perform in Israel, using that credibility.

Read more at: http://www.thetower.org/6306-the-dark-side-of-roger-waters-a-review-of-wish-you-werent-here/

Sounds like a typical British Labour party leftist, largely socialists.

[goatprairie]

Unless Waters actually paints or draws pictures, I don't consider him an artist. He's just a musician. And as I've always hated Pink Floyd and their turgid, overwrought music, a horrible one. Plus, he's a bigoted, anti-Semitic b*stard.