Roger Waters’s Critics Are Smearing Him as Antisemitic Because They Hate His Pro-Palestine Activism

 

 

 

"That false claims are being made about Waters is not the only disturbing aspect of this episode. What is especially troubling is how quickly these claims made it into mainstream media with little fact-checking. Now even politicians and law enforcement are taking them up.

The only word to describe what is happening is disinformation. The impetus behind it is not a specific Waters performance, but an attempt to destroy his character made by those with larger disagreements with his political commitments. Mainstream media, far from acting as fact-checkers, have helped to aid the spread of lies with its early uncritical reporting on Waters’s attackers. Although panic about disinformation has spurred calls for censorship and spawned a cottage industry of experts, the campaign against Waters has conveniently not been viewed through the lens of disinformation."

read article by Chip Gibbons​

Roger Waters’s Critics Are Smearing Him as Antisemitic Because They Hate His Pro-Palestine Activism