FILE – Roger Waters carries out throughout a live performance in Assago, near Milan, Italy, Wednesday, April 18, 2018. Hotels in Argentina and Uruguay have actually apparently declined appointments for Pink Floyd co-founder Waters over allegations of antisemitism fixed the British vocalist understood for his pro-Palestinian views. The Argentine paper Pagina 12 states Waters was because of remain in Buenos Aires ahead of programs Nov. 21-22, 2023, as part of his “This is Not a Drill” trip, however the bookings failed. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno, File)
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RIO DE JANEIRO (AP)– Hotels in Argentina and Uruguay supposedly turned down bookings for Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters over allegations of antisemitism fixed the British vocalist understood for his pro-Palestinian views.
Waters was because of remain in Argentina’s capital of Buenos Aires ahead of programs arranged for Nov. 21-22 as part of his “This is Not a Drill” trip, however the appointments failed, with hotels pointing out an absence of accessibility, the Argentine paper Pagina 12 reported.
Hotels in Montevideo, in surrounding Uruguay, likewise declined to host him however did not offer a factor, a Pagina 12 story on Wednesday estimated Waters as stating.
The vocalist stated that as an outcome he was still in Sao Paulo, Brazil, where he carried out a couple of days earlier.
“I had a supper date on the 16th with José Mujica, the previous president of Uruguay, who is a buddy of mine. And I can’t go (…) since the Israeli lobby and whatever they call themselves have actually canceled me,” Waters informed Pagina 12.
The president of the Central Israelite Committee of Uruguay, Roby Schindler, sent out a letter to the Sofitel hotel advising it not to host Waters, Pagina 12 stated.
Waters “benefits from his popularity as an artist to lie and gush his hatred towards Israel and all Jews,” Schindler stated, according to Pagina 12. “By getting him, you will be, even if you do not wish to, propagating the hatred that this guy exhibits,” Schindler included.
Waters has actually been dogged by allegations of antisemitism for many years, consisting of criticism by the U.S. federal government previously this year. The State Department stated Waters has “a long performance history of utilizing antisemitic tropes to denigrate Jewish individuals.”
Speaking with Pagina 12, he emphatically rejected that. “They do it since I think in human rights, and I speak freely about the genocide of the Palestinian individuals,” Waters stated.
In a current interview with reporter Glenn Greenwald, Waters stated the surprise attack by Hamas militants in Israel on Oct. 7 “was burnt out of all percentage by the Israelis developing stories about beheading infants.”
