What would you say to an Israeli who thinks outside intervention is anti-democratic, who says, “We should get to decide our future for ourselves”? Whether Israelis or anyone else like it or not, it just is.’ It was a place where it looked like all of us who took part in the Anti-Apartheid Movement, as it was called then, might have an effect, and might cause changes in policy in that small part of the world. “In the 1970s and ’80s, there was no question – we all focused on South Africa because it was the obvious place to focus. But particularly in the occupied territories – but also in Israel, in my view – the comparisons are valid. People also complain about anybody making comparisons between apartheid South Africa and Israel. ‘Well, if you’re determined to stand on the side of truth, justice, liberty, human rights, individual freedoms, political equality, and freedom to worship whatever you want, all of that – from time to time, situations crop up that demand your attention more than other situations, because they’re blatant and they’ve been going on for a very long time. The nub of his case is this:Īnd here we get to the core of the issue, because in Israel many people ask: Why Israel, when there are so many other countries that do the same? You need to read the full, often fascinating interview here. Waters takes a fixed position, drawing much of his information from disaffected Israelis, among them the daughter of a former major-general. The ex-Pink Floyd member has given an extended interview to the Israeli colunist Gideon Levy, explaining his activism in the BDS movement, an involvement that had led to accusations of anti-semitism against him.
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