PINK FLOYD legend Roger Waters has denied claims he uses anti-Semitic imagery on The Wall live tour.
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Campaigning group the Anti-Defamation League said last week that by having Stars of David mingled with dollar signs as a backdrop to the song Goodbye Blue Sky, Waters had “cross[ed] a line into anti-Semitism”.
Portraying Jews as money-grabbers is an age-old racist stereotype, but Waters says he is making a wider point.
“The point I am trying to make is that the bombardment we are all subject to by conflicting religious, political, and economic ideologies only encourages us to turn against one another, and I mourn the concomitant loss of life,” Waters said on his official website.
“There are no hidden meanings in the order or juxtaposition of these symbols”.
To be fair, the show has other signs alongside the dollar and Star of David, but hidden meanings aren’t always in the gift of the performer.
“The use of such imagery in a concert setting seems to leave the message open to interpretation,” said the ADL.
“The meaning could easily be misunderstood as a comment about Jews and money.”
Waters brings The Wall to the O2 next May, 2011.
