{"id":4147,"date":"2014-03-07T14:09:45","date_gmt":"2014-03-07T14:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2014\/03\/07\/pink-floyd-star-falls-foul-of-gerald-ronson\/"},"modified":"2014-03-07T14:09:45","modified_gmt":"2014-03-07T14:09:45","slug":"pink-floyd-star-falls-foul-of-gerald-ronson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2014\/03\/07\/pink-floyd-star-falls-foul-of-gerald-ronson\/","title":{"rendered":"Pink Floyd star falls foul of Gerald Ronson"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"firstPar\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/3\/3b\/Roger_Waters_18_May_2008_London_O2_Arena.jpg\/220px-Roger_Waters_18_May_2008_London_O2_Arena.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"218\" height=\"353\" \/><br \/>The hostilities between Roger Waters and the Jewish community has intensified    with Gerald Ronson accusing the co-founder of the rock band Pink Floyd of    being anti-Semitic.At a dinner of the Community Security Trust at the Grosvenor House Hotel    attended by Ed Miliband, Dominic Grieve, Ed Balls and Ephraim Mirvis, the    Chief Rabbi, Ronson, the charity\u2019s chairman, made withering reference to the    rock star. \u201cYou may remember Roger Waters from the rock band Pink Floyd,\u201d he    said. \u201cNowadays, at his concerts, he has a giant inflatable pig with a huge    Star of David scrawled across it.\u201d   <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"thirdPar\">\n<p>To scornful laughter from his audience, he added: \u201cBut, he insists that he is    only anti-Israel, and is not, of course, anti-Semitic.\u201d Ronson was referring    to an inflatable pig, stamped with the Star of David, that Waters, a    vociferous champion of Palestine, floated during a concert in Brussels last    year.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"fourthPar\">\n<p>As loud as the protests about the stunt were, he later compared the Israeli    government to the Nazis. \u201cThere were many that pretended that the oppression    of the Jews was not going on, from 1933 until 1946,\u201d he said. \u201cSo this is    not a new scenario. Except that this time it\u2019s the Palestinian people being    murdered.\u201d A spokesman for Waters insisted that he was not \u201canti-Semitic,\u201d    but simply opposed to the policies of the Israeli government.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"fifthPar\">\n<p>Miliband\u2019s keynote speech was, by the way, politely applauded, although    previous speakers, such as David Cameron and Theresa May, received standing    ovations.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: The Telegraph<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The hostilities between Roger Waters and the Jewish community has intensified with Gerald Ronson accusing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}