Former Pink Floyd frontman sparks fury by comparing Israelis to Nazis

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148. I disagree with many of Israel's policies, especially settlements

But let's not play the "Palestine is completely innocent" game. They have both done horrible things to each other. Neither of them is more innocent than the other. You can criticize Israel's policies with out being anti-semitic, however you cannot say "The Jewish lobby is extraordinary powerful here ( The United States) and particularly in the industry that I work in, the music industry and in rock ‘n’ roll, as they say," and pretend you're not anti-semitic.
And to top it on all of that when confronted about his anti-semitism he claims he has a Jewish friend,how many times have we heard that when a bigot gets exposed? How many times have we heard "I have a (fill in the blank) friend" from a republican who gets their bigotry exposed? The claim that Jews are all powerful and control everything in America is anti-semitism to the core, and represents some of the worst of the many anti-semitic stereotypes that exist.

And not only that he's a hypocrite: “So for an artist to go and play in a country that occupies other people’s land and oppresses them the way Israel does, is plain wrong,” yet he plays in China, Russia, Turkey, Myanmar etc. when those countries have done the same thing? So why is it only the Jewish state that he has something against? What singles out Israel from every other country that has done this? And another thing, there seems to be a lot of anti-semites on DU. You are all so quick to jump on racism and homophobia yet when someone is an anti-semite it's o.k.? It seems when it comes to prejudice many democrats are no better than a lot of republicans. It only took one post to expose that this site is full anti-semites.
I dealt with enough anti semitism growing up Jewish in the south. And here I thought I found a website full of good people, I guess I was wrong. I want to delete my account from this site, I just wish I knew how.