Eight months after the fall of the infamous Berlin Wall, Pink Floyd performed in Berlin, in July 1990, to commemorate the reunion of east and west Germany. Soon after its release in 1979, Pink Floyd’s signature album The Wall became an instant hit, lifting the band to the highest echelons of the musical world. In Judaism, descent is traced through the female line.Īfter delivering his speech on Tuesday night, Waters performed a concert for the Chileans. Waters’ son is married to a Jewish woman, and has two grandsons who, according to Judaism, are identified as Jewish. “And it does not make me anything different from my father," Waters added, as an excited audience gave him a standing ovation. “I have no choice but to fight against the Nazis that I have now in front of me,” the artist continued, comparing past Nazi policies with current Israeli actions.
His father's legacy left an unforgettable mark on the co-producer of The Wall, a music album which was regarded as one of the best albums ever made by many music critics.
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He became an ambulance driver and met his future wife who converted him to communism, a decision which later convinced him to fight Nazis. “I am not anti-Semitic,” Waters told Chileans during his speech in the Centro Cultural Matucana 100, as he shared some private details about his father, who was killed by Nazi allies when he was fighting as a British officer in Italy, in 1944.ĭuring World War II, his father Eric Fletcher Waters was a Christian pacifist, refusing to serve in the British army.
Known as a strong supporter of the BDS movement, Waters has often been targeted by Israel and other zionist organisations around the world, accusing him of being an anti-Semite. Similarly, there is now a growing BDS movement against Israel, which has been receiving worldwide support. The South African protests were strongly supported by the anti-Apartheid movement around the world. In the capital Santiago, he also compared the Israeli actions against Palestinians to South Africa’s former apartheid regime, which collapsed in the 1990s in the face of massive protests led by the late Nelson Mandela and members of his African National Congress.
"We all know that life in the Palestinian territories is unbearable," Waters said during the Chile leg of his tour, describing Israeli actions as a result of a “supremacist and racist policy.”
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