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.”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. if(window.location.pathname.indexOf("656089") != -1){console.log("hedva connatix");document.getElementsByClassName("divConnatix")[0].style.display ="none";}
“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