ADL director Foxman pens open letter to BDS advocate Roger Waters
Anti-Defamation League head questions anti-Semitic undercurrents in the British rocker's aggressive campaign against Israel.
By JPOST.COM STAFFAbe Foxman 311(photo credit: Ariel Jerozolimski)
Anti-Defamation League National Director Abraham H. Foxman penned an open letter to British musician Roger Waters addressing the Pink Floyd co-founder’s recent remarks on Israel and his repeated calls to boycott the Jewish state.Foxman, in the letter published on The Huffington Post on Friday, cited possible anti-Semitic underpinnings in the “flawed nature” of rocker’s campaign against Israel, which has “caused us to reexamine your attitude towards Jews.”“Your single-minded obsession with trying to convince others to boycott the Jewish state, while ignoring the world’s true human rights violators, must be driven by something other than a guilty conscience,” Foxman wrote.Waters published his own open letter earlier last week calling on his colleagues in the music industry to join him in a cultural boycott of Israel.“Important details are omitted from your letter, which is a classic propaganda technique,” Foxman said in his response.Waters’s open letter employed a one-sided, simplified argument that “makes no mention of Palestinian terrorism, nor does it provide any context to the complex nature of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Hamas, a terrorist organization which continues to advocate for Israel’s destruction, is entirely absent from your letter,” Foxman wrote.
