‘Take Away The Jew Food’: Pink Floyd Co-founder Roger Waters Accused of Anti-Semitic Behavior, Banned From Speaking at UPenn

According to a new documentary titled The Dark Side of Roger Waters by the London-based organization Campaign Against Antisemitism, the 80-year-old songwriter displayed anti-Semitic behavior dating as far back as 1979.

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“Hey Guys, Who’s going to make pig? Would it work to go out on the stuka truss? I imagine it black with crossed hammers logo as 1980, but covered with symbols from Good by blue sky, crosses, stars of David (that’s king david not david gilmour) crescent and star, dollar signs, shell oil shell, etc and epithets,’my pig right or wrong’ ‘f— you’ ‘no,f— you’ ‘dirty k—’ ‘follow the money’ ‘Scum?’ etc. Roger,” the alleged email from March 25, 2010 read.

Waters’ former saxophonist also detailed an incident in the new documentary in which the Pink Floyd co-founder “lost his temper” and demanded that a waiter “take away the Jew food” during a dinner at a Lebanese restaurant.

“That’s it! That’s it! Where’s the meat? Where’s the meat? What’s with this? This is Jew food! What’s with the Jew food? Take away the Jew food!” Waters allegedly shouted, according to Norbert Statchel.

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“Roger Waters has repeatedly used his enormous platform to bait Jews, but he always claims that he is not anti-Semitic,” Gideon Falter, the organization’s chief executive, said in a statement this week.

“We believed that there was further evidence out there to the contrary, and the release of The Dark Side of Roger Waters now puts the evidence we obtained in the hands of the public,” he added.

Meanwhile, Waters denied being an anti-Semite in May after he came under fire for dressing like a Nazi officer during a concert in Berlin.

“My recent performance in Berlin has attracted bad faith attacks from those who want to smear and silence me because they disagree with my political views and moral principles,” he said at the time.

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