Conflict: Roger Waters, 70, has been branded an antisemitic after his comments last week The former frontman of Pink Floyd has sparked outrage after comparing Israel's government to the Nazi regime. Leading rabbis and Jewish writers have blasted Roger Waters as antisemitic for claiming the state's treatment of Palestinians is akin to the oppression of Jews between 1933 and 1946. Waters, 70, who refuses to visit or perform in Israel, said he would not have played in France or Germany during the Second World War either. 'The parallels with what went on in the 1930s in Germany are so crushingly obvious,' he told American magazine Counter Punch last week.
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Bassist, 70, said treatment of Palestinians is same as the oppression of Jews during World War Two adding that they are treated as 'sub-human'
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Refuses to play in Israel as he 'wouldn't play in occupied France either'
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Rabbi blasted 'antisemitic diatribe' as one of worst attacks ever on Jews
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