![]() Waters said he has never wanted to 'hurt' people with his performances. 'Well I know the answer,' he said, 'The Israeli government sees me as an existential threat to their secular, colonialist, racist, apartheid regime, that is why ''now'', and they have done everything that they can think of to discredit me and try and destroy my career and if possible destroy me and my family.' Waters later asked why the backlash was happening 'now', before suggesting it is part of a plot by the Israeli government. not just from a personal perspective, but what an outrage that anybody for a second could even speak about cancelling me.' ![]() He added: 'So, they're attacking my dad, when they attack me. The vocalist said his father had initially been a communist but that after the London Blitz he 'changed his mind' and 'the need to fight the Nazis trumped his pacifism.' Waters said he was just five years old when his father died fighting the Nazis in North Africa in 1944. 'So how you can transmogrify this work of theatre into me glorifying the Third Reich and Nazism beggars belief!' 'Pink internally realises that he's made a terrible mistake by wanting to become a powerful demagogue and rule the world, that's why he tries himself in the trial for having become a Nazi. they're waiting to cut out the deadwood''. ''they're waiting to take over the world. Waters explains: 'When he's the fascist leader, he's singing all this stuff that I wrote about who they are, the forces of evil. They inject him with adrenaline so he is able to perform at his concert and in a delusionary state Pink sees himself as a dictator at a fascist rally, with his fans acting as his loyal supporters. Geldof plays a depressed musician named Pink who at one point returns to his hotel room and takes drugs, before being found unresponsive by his managers. ![]() The Wall, released in 1982, was a film starring Bob Geldof - and written by Waters - based on the Pink Floyd album of the same name and featuring the majority of its songs. Mr Waters is pictured at during his London concert at the O2 this week Michael Gove and Sir Keir Starmer have criticised Waters amid claims of anti-Semitism. He goes on to brand Labour MP Christian Wakefield 'scum' for trying to have him 'banned' from gigging in Manchester, and blames Israel for the current backlash because the country sees him as an 'existential threat' due to his pro-Palestine views. Speaking to Double Down News, the singer-songwriter said he wears the trench coat - which features a red armband emblazoned with two hammers - during his performance of The Wall, which he brands a 'piece of theatre' he has been doing for 'more than 40 f***ing years.' It was then worn again in London on Tuesday, attracting criticisms form Sir Keir Starmer and Michael Gove. The controversial coat was first met with outcry in Berlin last month, prompting German police to launch an investigation. In a furious rebuttal, the Pink Floyd musician, 79, said he was 'upset beyond all measure' by the 'deeply insulting' accusations, which he branded an attack on him and his father - who died fighting Hitler's Third Reich in the Second World War. Roger Waters today said claims that he is an anti-Semite are 'bull***' and 'vicious lies' after he was condemned for wearing a 'Nazi-style' trench coat on stage - including in Germany.
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