Dark Side of the Loon: SHOCKING images emerge of Pink Floyd's Roger Waters dressed as a Nazi at Berlin concert where inflatable pig emblazoned with Star of David floats over crowd
Roger Waters, 79, donned a costume featuring the crossed hammer imagery that the fictitious neo-Nazi organization wore in the 1982 film Pink Floyd: The Wall. He also displayed the names of dead figures including Anne Frank next to Abu Akleh, an Al Jazeera journalist who was fatally shot last year. Still, the rocker has denied that he is anti-Semitic
By Melissa Koenig
Daily Mail
May 25, 3034
Roger Waters is not antisemitic, he just hates Jews
Pink Floyd bassist Roger Waters has once again sparked outrage after he dressed up as a Nazi officer during a performance in Berlin.
The 79-year-old donned a black trench coat decorated with red armbands and metal insignia on his collar reminiscent of an SS officer as a an inflatable pig emblazoned with the Star of David floated above the audience.
Hanging above him at the concert at the Mercedes-Benz arena were Third Reich-style banners.
A screen behind him displayed the names of Anne Frank and Abu Akleh, an Al Jazeera journalist who was fatally shot last year while covering an Israeli Defense Forces raid on a Palestinian refugee camp.
Germany's Orthodox Jewish rabbinical association is now calling for a ban on Waters performing in Germany — but the rocker continues to deny he is anti-Semitic and is only speaking out against Israeli politics.
An inflatable pig was emblazoned with the logo of an Israeli armaments firm and Jewish stars
He compared Anne Frank to Abu Akleh, an Al Jazeera journalist who was fatally shot last year while covering an Israeli Defense Forces raid on a Palestinian refugee camp
Throughout his performance, Waters tried to draw comparisons between Nazi Germany and present day Israel as he doubled-down on his criticism of the country's treatment of Palestinians.
Throughout the show, humanoid pigs and shady businessmen were seen 'pulling the strings.'
At one point, he even pretended to fire a machine gun into the crowd in his Nazi-inspired uniform — which were worn by the members of a fascist organization in the 1982 Pink Floyd film The Wall, which tells the story of a rocker.
A screen shaped like a crucifix also displayed the names of Anne Frank, who it says was killed in Germany because she was Jewish and Abu Akleh, the Al Jazeera journalist who the screen said was killed because she is Palestinian.
The Israeli Defense Forces have denied any involvement in her killing.
Waters also sang 'Lay Down Jerusalem (If I Had Been God)' while the screen behind him flashed 'F$%& the occupation,' according to Bell Tower News reporter Nicholas Potter, who observed the spectacle last week.
He would later change into a kutiya, a symbol of the Palestinian resistance against Israel while the words 'Palestinian rights' are displayed on the screen.
And following a brief intermission, an inflatable pig flew through the concert venue with demonically-lit eyes and emblazoned with the logo of an Israeli armaments firm and Jewish stars.
At one point, he even pretended to fire a gun into the crowd in his Nazi-inspired uniform — which were worn by the members of a neo-Nazi organization in the Pink Floyd film The Wall
World Jewish leaders, and some governments, have spoken out against Waters' performance
The performance came after Waters won a legal battle to perform in Frankfurt, Germany, where magistrates had labeled him 'one of the most widely spread anti-Semites in the world.'
In Germany, there are laws banning the displays of Nazi memorabilia and symbols like the swastika.
But a court in Frankfurt ruled that his concert scheduled for Sunday may continue as planned, citing artistic freedom, though a judge noted that aspects of his show were 'tasteless' and were obviously based on imagery from the Nazi regime.
Waters then began the performance in Berlin with an announcement on screen reading: 'On a matter of public interest: a court in Frankfurt has ruled I am not an anti-Semite.
'Just to be clear, I condemn anti-Semitism unreservedly.'
But his performance was panned online by Jewish leaders and even several world governments.
The Simon Wiesenthal Center, which seeks to educate the public about the Holocaust, tweeted: 'Shame on Frankfurt authorities and Mercedes Benz arena in Berlin — a place from where Jews were deported by the Nazis — for providing anti-Semite #RogerWaters this venue for his concert with no concern/care for the Jewish community.'
And the Israeli government tweeted: 'Good morning to every one but Roger Waters who spent the evening in Berlin (Yes Berlin) desecrating the memory of Anne Frank and the 6 million Jews murdered in the Holocaust.'
Meanwhile, in the UK, MP Christian Wakeford spoke out against Waters' upcoming performance in Manchester.
He put forth a motion seeking to ban the concert citing the rising 'anti-Jewish sentiment' in the country.
Dave Gilmour's (center) wife Polly Samson (right) branded Roger Waters (left) a 'Putin apologist' and 'anti-Semitic'
Waters recently shared a link to an interview he had done covering topics like Putin and Israel
Waters has repeatedly denied accusations of anti-Semitism, saying his disdain is with Israel and not the Jewish people.
In a recent interview with German magazine Berliner Zeitung, he claimed that Israel was engaged in 'genocide' and compared events to the way Great Britain behaved 'during our colonial period.'
He said: 'We believed ourselves to be inherently superior to the indigenous people, just as the Israelis do in Palestine. Well, we weren't and neither are the Israeli Jews.'
Waters then went on to defend Vladimir Putin's decision to invade Ukraine.
'The most important reason for supplying arms to Ukraine is surely profit for the arms industry,' he said in the February interview.
'And I wonder: is Putin a bigger gangster than Joe Biden and all those in charge of American politics since World War II? I am not so sure. Putin didn't invade Vietnam or Iraq? Did he?'
Those comments were slammed online by Polly Samson, the wife of Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour, who accused Waters of being 'anti-Semitic' to his 'rotten core' and labeled him a 'Putin apologist and a lying, thieving, hypocritical, tax-avoiding, lip-syncing, misogynistic, sick-with-envy-megalomaniac.'
Her husband, Gilmour, 77, liked and retweeted her remarks saying 'every word' is 'demonstrably true.'
In the aftermath, Waters' team released a response from his own Twitter account, saying: 'Roger Waters is aware of the incendiary and wildly inaccurate comments made about him on Twitter by Polly Samson which he refutes entirely.
'He is currently taking advice on his position.'
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