Roger Waters talks about ‘apartheid’ Israel, lashes Golda Meir in online student forum

Ottawa (QNN)- Former Pink Floyd member and vocal ‘Israel’ critic Roger Waters talked recently about ‘Israel’, the “settler-colonialists, Zionist movement” and bashed Golda Meir during an online program to support pro-Palestinian students at McGill University in Canada.

At the recent webinar, “Standing up for student solidarity with Palestine” (hosted by the Canadian Foreign Policy Institute), featured guest and legendary rock artist, Roger Waters, spoke candidly about two troubling experiences he had in ‘Israel’.

The webinar was held last week to criticize the administration of McGill University for threatening to withhold support for the Student Society of McGill University (SSMU) after students voted to adopt a “Palestine Solidarity Policy.”

That policy would, among other things, promote a “Nakba Day” on campus (nakba is Arabic for “catastrophe”).

“At the turn of the millennium, I had no idea really what was going on,” said Waters. “I thought, Israel isn’t that people in sandals going around and you know farming, and aren’t they Socialists. … I was completely wrong. It’s not about that at all.”

“It’s about a bunch of, you know, Europeans back in the middle of the 19th century deciding that they were going to take over this piece of land, and kick out anybody that lived there and take it over for themselves and for their own little cabal,” he said.

Five or six years ago, said Waters, one couldn’t use the word “apartheid” in reference to the “Zionist agenda.” You couldn’t do it, it was absolutely verboten … ,” he added, using the German word for “forbidden.”

“Now,” he continued, “It’s impossible to have any conversation about the Zionist project in Palestine without using the word apartheid because it has become generally accepted by anyone with an IQ above room temperature or anyone who has any knowledge at all the situation in the occupied territories.”

Talking about the advocacy group B’nai Brith, he said, I remember those “a**holes from the last time I was in Canada,” and they would be trying to get people to not come to my shows and to join them in the belief that I am an anti-Semite. … I pity them now because they are clinging to the last shreds of any attachment to their fascist belief in Jewish supremacy in the Holy Land, and it is fascist …

“The platform upon which B’nai Brith and the settler-colonialist Zionist movement and obviously the government stand … has diminished until it’s almost disappeared … and it’s going to disappear, and it will no longer be there in spite despite rich donors to McGill University putting pressure” on the administration to overturn the “democratic vote” of students, he continued.

“There is nothing you can say about the Zionist project that is defensible,” stated Waters. “It is all based on absolute lies.”

He went on to call Israeli occupation former prime minister, Golda Meir, a “lying piece of s**t,” saying that she said ‘Israel’ was a land without people when the Palestinians were already there.

The online forum was co-sponsored by some 30 groups, including Samidoun: Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network.