Roger Waters and Piers Morgan clash over anti-Semitism claims and Israel Palestine conflict after being called “world’s dumbest rockstar”

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Roger Waters and Piers Morgan ended up butting heads over Israel, Palestine and anti-Semitism in an episode of Piers Morgan Uncensored.

Waters has made his support for Palestine very public but has also been frequently accused of anti-Semitism, which he has strenuously denied on the basis that he takes issue with the state of Israel, not Judaism as a whole.He has previously accused Israel of “abusing the term anti-Semitism to intimidate people like me into silence”, and back in November he speculated that the “fishy” attacks perpetrated by Hamas on October 7 could have been a “false flag operation”.Waters was also the subject of a documentary, The Dark Side Of Roger Waters, which was produced by the Campaign Against Anti-Semitism.

The film collates various incidents of alleged anti-Semitism levelled against the musician. Rogers later dismissed the project as “a flimsy, unapologetic piece of propaganda”.Now, in a post on Instagram about the interview, Morgan said that he and Waters had come to blows. “Update: I interviewed Pink Floyd star Roger Waters yesterday, after calling him ‘the world’s dumbest rock star’ and a ‘complete and utter moron.’ It went as well as could be expected,” he wrote.In the interview, Morgan and Waters got into a heated debate over what happened when Hamas invaded Israel on October 7, which reignited the current conflict.Waters proposed that there should be an investigation into what happened that day, particularly in relation to allegations of rape and sexual assault, which Hamas officials denied their officers were involved in.“I’m not saying a part of the Palestinian resistance movement didn’t cross that wire fence.