{"id":281621,"date":"2016-10-29T16:38:51","date_gmt":"2016-10-29T20:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=281621"},"modified":"2020-10-30T16:44:37","modified_gmt":"2020-10-30T20:44:37","slug":"rocker-roger-waters-loses-4m-over-anti-israel-activism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/ro\/rocker-roger-waters-loses-4m-over-anti-israel-activism\/","title":{"rendered":"Rocker Roger Waters loses $4M over anti-Israel activism"},"content":{"rendered":"
RAEL\u2019S COMMENT:<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n
Boycott American Express!<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

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Roger Waters\u2019 anti-Israel activism has cost the British rock star millions of dollars and an American Express sponsorship, the New York Post reported.<\/p>\n

The credit giant took off the table a $4-million sponsorship of Waters\u2019 2017 tour in North America following his partisan and anti-Israel rhetoric this month at a festival that American Express sponsored, according to the tabloid\u2019s\u00a0report\u00a0Thursday.<\/p>\n

\u201cRoger is putting on a huge show. The company was asked to sponsor his tour for $4 million, but pulled out because it did not want to be part of his anti-Israel rhetoric,\u201d an unnamed source from American Express is quoted as saying.<\/p>\n

But an official spokesperson for the firm said it never formally offered to sponsor Waters\u2019 2017 tour. \u201cWhen we were approached with the options, we passed on making a bid,\u201d the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n

At the \u201cOldchella\u201d festival, Waters used his time on stage to blast the Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and to call for a boycott against Israel, according to the Post.<\/p>\n

\u201cF\u2009-\u2009-\u2009k Trump and his wall,\u201d Waters said at that event, calling Trump \u201carrogant, lying, racist, sexist.\u201d He then voiced his solidarity with students protesting for Palestinians. He also urged people to support the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel.<\/p>\n

Waters did not reply to requests for a reaction by the Post.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, Waters said during an interview that celebrities are afraid to \u201cspeak out against Israel\u2019s policies,\u201d as he termed it, because of what he described as financial consequences attached to doing so.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve talked to a lot of them, and they are scared s\u2009-\u2009-\u2009tless. If they say something in public, they will no longer have a career. They will be destroyed,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Waters, the 69-year-old co-founder of the classic rock group Pink Floyd, has been widely criticized for his anti-Israel activities and accused of espousing anti-Semitic symbols, though he has denied doing so.<\/p>\n

In a 2013 concert in Brussels, Waters performed on a stage featuring a giant pig balloon emblazoned with a Star of David, among other symbols.<\/p>\n

The Simon Wiesenthal Center called Waters \u201can open hater of Jews.\u201d And the Anti-Defamation League\u2019s then leader, Abraham Foxman, in an open letter to Waters earlier this month, said his \u201cviews on Israel are in fact colored by offensive and dangerous undercurrents of anti-Jewish sentiment.\u201d<\/p>\n

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