Roger Waters Calls on Stevie Wonder Not to Accept Israeli Award

By Aaron Bandler

March 9, 2021

Aaron Bandler

Former Pink Floyd bassist Roger Waters released a video on March 9 calling on musician Stevie Wonder to refuse an award from Israel. The award, known as the Wolf Prize, is given to those who have made outstanding contributions to the arts and sciences. Israeli President Reuven Rivlin announced on February 9 that Wonder and Australian composer Olga Neuworth would be receiving the award.

Waters pointed out in his video that Wonder canceled a 2013 scheduled performance at a fundraising gala for the Friends of Israel Defense Forces (FIDF) and that he expects Wonder to do the same with the award. Wonder said at the time he was canceling because of the “very delicate situation in the Middle East”; groups like the U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation (known today as the U.S. Campaign for Palestinian rights) had been urging Wonder to cancel at the time.

“This is an apartheid regime,” Water said. “This is Israel. You will be whitewashing them beyond all belief.” He then acknowledged that he “wasn’t making much sense” and “rambling” after having nearly a full glass of wine.

(Waters is senseless and a drunk so don't pay attention to him the Jewish Journal hit piece author implies)

.@steviewonder, with respect, you turned down Haim Saban’s IDF fundraiser in 2012. Please turn down Israel’s @WolfPrize_ in 2021.

Love
R.https://t.co/VXS3pWP2X9 pic.twitter.com/KTeFk5ePck

— Roger Waters (@rogerwaters) March 9, 2021

Jewish and pro-Israel activists denounced Waters. “Where is Roger’s condemnation of Muslims being tortured in modern day camps in China? The famine happening in Yemen?” Liora Rez, director of Stop Antisemitism.org, said in a statement to the Journal. “This man’s obsessive condemnations are reserved only for Jews. Waters is an embarrassment to the entertainment community and for anyone to take him seriously in 2021 is laughable.”

Israellycool blogger David Lange quipped that Waters is “doing what he seems to loves [sic] most. Spreading lies against #Israel — and drinking alcohol.”

Bully @RogerWaters doing what he seems to loves most. Spreading lies against #Israel – and drinking alcohol https://t.co/3EzluXTAAN

— (((David Lange))) (@Israellycool) March 9, 2021

Waters has come under fire for calling the late philanthropist Sheldon Adelson the “puppet master” over his ties to the Trump administration in June 2020 — which he issued an apology over — as well as for putting a Star of David on an inflatable pig in 2013. Waters also supports the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement.

(Star of David on inflatable pig = reason not to support BDS)

David Draiman, lead singer of the heavy metal band Disturbed, has called the 2013 incident “blatantly anti-Semitic” and has criticized Waters’ support of BDS. “The very notion that Waters and the rest of his Nazi comrades decide that this is the way to go ahead and foster change is absolute lunacy and idiocy,” Draiman told a Disturbed Facebook fan page in May 2019. “It makes no sense whatsoever. It’s only based on hatred of a culture and of a people in a society that has been demonized unjustifiably since the beginning of time.”

(Disturbed Jewish singer Drainman repeats the Jewish "They hate us for no reason:" lies when any sociologists with their degree should point out how Judaism's blanket racism against Gentiles, no different than White Supremacist's blanket racism against all non-White people inspires Gentile backlash and always has "since the beginning of time". When your community refuses to eat with, socialize with, or marry anyone not belonging to the Jewish nation, characteristic of Jewish communities for centuries, then what would you expect from the shunned Gentiles? Love and respect? Not in most Gentile populations prior to Israel's illegal foundation as a European Colony to control the whole Middle East and its vast oil fields for Europe and America.

Waters has previously defended himself from accusations of anti-Semitism by stating that his daughter-in-law is Jewish, making his grandchildren Jewish by default. He also claimed that he has used various other symbols — including a dollar sign and a hammer and sickle — on his inflatable pigs. 

[Star of David painted on Israeli rockets by Israeli kids are a hell of lot worse for the Palestinian families targeted for race war decimation by IDF. Zionism is racism, pure and simple. It is European colonial inspired Jewish Supremacy ideology, no different from European American's Manifest Destiny ideology that genocided millions of America's indigenous peoples. Jewish people have no justifiable reason bringing more European genocidal colonial race war to the Middle East. Support BDS, end Israeli race war against Arab Palestinians]

 Q-Anon, The Revenge of the Comic Book Nerds

 I don't know about you but I can't find any rational reasons for Q-Anon conspiracy theories or Q-Anon ideas of what a Q-Anon society would be other than a comic book world lacking only a Super Hero who doesn't mind bending  the laws of the land to Protect the American Way (In several Superman comic covers). A tall man, with orange hair..

Comic Book minds, this is their world they want you to live in. Comic book ideas of what's going on. Clever boys who know what's what. Comic book solutions to world problems. The Republican Party is chuck full of these Man-Boys now and every citizen who longs for the days of Father Knows Best so you don't have to think, there's just too much to think about already, let's let the Leader of the PAC do it for you.  

 

Evangelical Fascism

You know fascism and totalitarianism are pathological narcissistic states of mind made into State religion and government. The LEADER embodies all of society in himself, they only have to worship and obey his every command or whim. That's all. No thinking on their own necessary when the fearless Leader thinks for them. White Father in the White White House knows what's best for White America, and the Big White Father in the Sky knows best of all. He blesses the ones who mouth the Sacred Idol Words no matter what their deeds, the Word of God suffices to cover a thousand sins. Always has, always will. Until it doesn't. When children grow up and think for themselves. When they throw out the tyrants, pathological grandiose narcissists, each and every one. 

Capital Attack = Rightwing Narcissistic Rage

When pathological narcissists don't get their way, they throw tantrums. That's because they are child-adults to begin with or become that way by joining the rightwing natural slide into fascism and unquestioning belief in the Leader's Plan to get revenge, to hurt the necessary Scapegoats, the Left and all the non-White people of America and the world who the White Right fear will oust their racist domination of America and world resource politics, no matter how many lose out. Lives don't matter, the Leader's Plan matters, whatever that means, rational planning only for losers, winning strategies counting on promoting emotional fear, the Prime Mover of rightwing fascist politics and the predecessor to totalitarian obliteration of Democracy. The Rightwing has tapped into the European Colonial Racist Mindset that has always underpinned European colonization as hostile to native peoples and lands as deadly implacable alien invaders from outer space whose game plan they have drawn from.

Come on, wake up! World War II was all about fighting Fascism and yet we let the anti-American Republican Party get away with dishonoring a whole generation of men who protected America from narcissists given horrendous power, men like Hitler and his horde of Nazi henchmen. Don't let American fascism in Republican Party form go without public review and condemnation. This is not pre-Hitler Germany. This is America. Make that mean something wonderful again.