PINK FLOYD EVENT CANCELED FOR ANTISEMITISM

Fri Apr 5, 2013 2:05 am (PDT) . Posted by:

"David Orbach" achdutyisrael613

<http://www.algemeiner.com/2013/04/04/pink-floyd-member-and-israel-critic-ro
ger-waters-event-canceled-at-ny-jewish-venue/> Pink Floyd Member and Israel
Critic Roger Waters Event Canceled at NY Jewish Venue

A planned event with Pink Floyd band member Roger Waters, a vocal critic of
Israel, at New York City's 92nd Street Y has been canceled following
opposition efforts from the pro-Israel community.

The 92nd Street Y, which was scheduled to host "A Conversation With Rogers
Waters" on April 30, wrote to its email list Wednesday, "This event has been
cancelled. We will be issuing refunds to all ticket-holders." The bassist
and co-lead vocalist of Pink Floyd, Waters accused Israel and last fall was
also at the forefront of efforts to boycott an Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
performance at New York's Carnegie Hall.

On Wednesday, the watchdog group JCCWatch.org issued a "Jewish Community
Alert" email that asked supporters to voice their opposition to the Roger
Waters event. Besides for the 92nd Street Y, JCCWatch.org asked supporters
to contact leaders of the UJA-Federation of New York, which provides funding
for the Y.

"It's absolutely outrageous that Jewish community funds are going to help
Roger Waters spread his anti-Semitic message," Richard Allen of JCCWatch.org
said in the email.

David P. Steinmann, a Manhattan resident who lives around the corner from
the Y, wrote in an email letter to UJA-Federation CEO John S. Ruskay,
UJA-Federation President Jerry W. Levin, and 92nd Street Y Executive
Director Sol Adler that, "Roger Waters is an Israel hater with a public
anti-Semitic message. Because of his position as the lead singer of Pink
Floyd, he has both high visibility and (undeserved) credibility." Waters
"has worked to persuade other artists to boycott performing in Israel, has
led the efforts to boycott the Israel Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall and
persuaded Stevie Wonder to cancel a benefit performance for Friends of the
IDF-the very Israelis who risk their lives every day to preserve the Jewish
state of Israel," Steinmann wrote.

"To permit [Roger Waters] to appear at the Y with the implicit-and knowing
of his anti-Israel activities- explicit approval of his hatred for the
Jewish state and its Jews, would be a self destructive thing to do to the Y,
to the Jewish people and to the State of Israel," he wrote.