Roger Waters, the Jew-hating Pink Floyd member detested by his former bandmates, has once again put his virulent antisemitism on full display. There is something to learn, even from someone like him.
Roger Waters made some exceptionally-false comments
*There is a video of a 10/7 Hamas terrorist saying how he and his father raped the same woman before his father killed her. This is one of many videos of taped confessions.
*The forensic evidence of those killed strongly supports evidence of rape of many of the women brutally killed on that black day.
*Eyewitnesses to rapes have described in detail what took place.
*There are Hamas videos of women who clearly have been sexually assaulted prior to their being hijacked to Gaza.
As to the Bibas family, Hamas has produced several videos of the mother Bibas with two of her children being herded off by Hamas barbarians to Gaza. Hamas has never denied the presence of the members of the Bibas family in Gaza captivity. Additional video shows the Bibas clan in Hamas captivity.
So, here is a famous rock star well past his prime who has denied evidence that flies in the face of his white-hot Jew hatred. To admit the rapes would give the Jews some kind of credibility and right to sympathy. It would also make Hamas look bad. I have never heard Waters criticize Hamas or any anti-Jewish group or organization though he trotted out the standard, “Well, if there were any war crimes that day, I decry them” shtick. Waters needs reality to be bent to his lies on Piers Morgan’s show. Otherwise, his whole antisemitic structure that he has been peddling for decades would come crashing down on his head.
There was a time when truth was the ultimate moderator of varying opinions in the public sphere. Different people or groups could put forward opinions or ideas, but ultimately the truth would vindicate one side and condemn the other. The discovery of the concentration camps by advancing Allied armies ended all debate as to whether the Nazis were systematically murdering Jews and political enemies. Truth trumped apologists or people who claimed that such activities were beyond the realm of human capability. Pursuing the truth was the way that courts used to work, and there were some rare professors who were actually interested in truth more than some ideology that was impervious to any proof or facts. But as liberals became leftists, the truth was generally no longer their friend. The truth often stood diametrically opposed to their ideological goals and opinions. So they had a choice: jettison truth where it interferes with their world view or accept the truth as being determinant and modify their worldviews accordingly. Ideology was more important than truth, and that is how we find ourselves where we are today.
One can see that Roger Waters is willing to be ridiculous, to contradict evidence related by a terrified witness and even impugn his friends in Hamas as liars regarding videotaped evidence in order to support his view that Jews and Israelis are only evil and never worthy of any sympathy. But Waters is not alone by any stretch, and Jew hatred is only one field where truth is locked away for the greater goal of advancing positions based on lies and distortions. On the subject of 10/7, I was waiting for some college students to condemn Hamas’ actions against Israeli civilians that are undeniable and then continue on with their Jew hatred. But they can’t bring themselves—like Waters—to admit that Jews suffered anything undeserved on 10/7. If there were deaths, Israel was at fault. Hamas had, in their view, the unfortunate task of having to give the Jews what they deserved as colonialists. In a previous age, observers on the side would have been shocked by the protesters’ disingenuous statements and chants. They would have been chided for ignoring facts, twisting words, and looking only on one side of an issue in order to justify their already predetermined position, which is to hate (white) Jews. The Me Too crowd and the faux feminists could not even bring themselves to condemn the mass attack against Israeli women, civilians and soldiers alike. Their being Jewish meant that the sympathy normally granted to any woman who claims sexual violence was not available to them. As I wrote before, we live in an age in which one cannot condemn a riot or violence in the streets until he confirms if the perpetrators are on his ideological side or not.
But 10/7 and Israel are by no means the only subjects where leftists ignore, invert, or destroy the truth so as to keep fidelity with ideological purity. Those who support the open borders over which millions have illegally entered the US pooh-pooh the entry of fentanyl, the violence, the social displacement, the higher rents, and the added billions required to deal with these people. The ideology of an open border trumps all of those points. Ditto for the climate scam. EV cars apparently are worse for the environment than gas-powered cars, nothing extraordinary has occurred over the past two decades with regards to “climate,” windmills and sun-driven energy production are unreliable, not available 24/7, and expensive compared to traditional sources of energy. Doctors are willing to lie to claim that a guy who claims to be a woman does not have physical advantages over real women in sports. They are willing to perform operations on children that only damage the latter because the truth would get in the way of their ideology that men and women are interchangeable like parts on an airplane.
Roger Waters gladly came off as a lying lunatic so as not to give up on his multi-decade career as a Jew-hater. The same is true for leftists in every field of endeavor, as “the truth” is a friend only when it supports their positions and can be discarded when it gets in the way. In the end, truth will win out. The time has come for the West to get rid of leftist ideologues who are willfully destroying Western society.