Roger Waters objected strongly to a Canadian plan to host a Pink Floyd reunion near the Nova music festival massacre
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Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters has struck out against both McGill University and Canadian megadonor Sylvan Adams after the latter spoke publicly of his plans to organize a Pink Floyd concert near the site of the Nova music festival massacre in Israel.
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Waters left Pink Floyd in 1985, and his extreme political stances have often put him at odds with his surviving former bandmates Nick Mason and David Gilmour.
When Waters said that Russia was provoked into invading Ukraine, for instance, Mason and Gilmour briefly reformed Pink Floyd just long enough to release Hey, Hey, Rise Up, a pro-Ukraine anthem whose proceeds benefited the Ukraine Humanitarian Relief Fund.
In an interview last month with the Canadian Jewish News, Adams said he had been in talks to organize a similar Pink Floyd reunion at Kibbutz Re’im, the closest Israeli community to the site of the Nova music festival, where more than 300 were murdered on October 7.
“Roger Waters was kicked out of Pink Floyd — he’s a nutball, Roger Waters — and they can’t stand each other,” said Adams, a Quebec City-born billionaire who immigrated to Israel in 2015.
He added that Waters’ stances are “completely repugnant to the two remaining guys.”
Waters has been vocally anti-Israel for decades, often comparing Israel to Nazi Germany, and claiming that the world is in the grip of a powerful “Jewish lobby.”
Just a month after the October 7 massacres, Waters said they........