Long no longer belongs from Roger Waters? How to take it. After the constant fire last year, the notorious co -founder of Pink Floyd held back a little. Just for his standards. In December 2024, a small routine insult against Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood from Radiohead.
Now he moves back to the center of attention.
A court in London has classified public statements against director John Ware as a “defamation”. In an interview with the Arab broadcaster Al Jazeera, Waters had accused the creator of the documentary “The Dark Side of Roger Waters” that he was a “lying, sneaky Zionist mouthpiece”. He also accused him of “cheering the genocide of the Palestinians”.
“Statement of facts”
Judge Jennifer Eady regarded the Waters statements this week (case number: KB 2024 002122) as a “claim of facts”. The argumented argument that these statements are his opinion about the behavior of the Israeli forces in Gaza and other things does not apply here.
“The statements are legally defamatory for the plaintiff,” wrote the judge in her reason. Filmmakers Ware had sought a trial against Waters and Al Jazeera, especially against the documentary and especially against his person. The film “The Dark Side of Roger Waters” pursues the numerous anti-Semitic failures that are accused of the 81-year-old today. In a first reaction, he had dismissed the documentary as a “flimsy, unapologist’s piece of propaganda”.
A spokesman for the international “Campaign Against Antisemitism”, who had co -coinitated the documentary, said: “We welcome this judgment about the meaning of Roger Waters ‘nonsensical tirades after John Waree produced the documentary’ The Dark Side of Roger Water ” who uncovered the story of Mr. Waters’ ritic behavior towards Jewish people. ”
“It is high time that he has to draw consequences for his big flap”
The equation of the engagement for anti -Semitism as “promotion of the genocide in Palestine” would be incorrect. “It is an argument that has been used by people like Mr. Waters for a long time. It is high time that he has to draw consequences for his big flap. “
Waters had previously accused Israel of abusing the term anti -Semitism, “to silence people like me”. In dark moments, he continued to speculate that the Hamas attacks on October 7, 2023 could have been “surgery under false flag” on October 7, 2023.
Roger Waters has not yet answered the judgment. He is currently committed to his social channels for the Canadian Pro Palestine activist and Israel-Hasser Ives Engler, who just sat in a prison in Montreal for five days.