“The organizers need to take a hard look at the message they’re sending. Instead of sending a message of division, they should aim to bring together Jews and Arabs living in Israel.” “From the decision to associate with Samidoun to mocking legitimate concerns of Jewish students, we knew we had to say something,” said CIJA Quebec vice president Eta Yudin. Jewish groups criticized Waters for his participation, noting that his time would have been better spent supporting groups that build bridges between communities instead of demonizing Israel and its supporters. The online forum was co-sponsored by some 30 groups, including Samidoun: Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, which the Israeli Ministry of Defense calls a terrorist organization. He went on to call the former prime minister of Israel, Golda Meir, a “lying piece of s**t,” claiming that she said Israel was a land without people when the Palestinians were already there. “There is nothing you can say about the Zionist project that is defensible,” stated Waters. “The platform upon which B’nai Brith and the settler-colonialist Zionist movement and obviously the government stand … has diminished until it’s almost disappeared … and it’s going to disappear, and it will no longer be there in spite despite rich donors to McGill University putting pressure” on the administration to overturn the “democratic vote” of students, he continued. … I pity them now because they are clinging to the last shreds of any attachment to their fascist belief in Jewish supremacy in the Holy Land, and it is fascist … Talking about the advocacy group B’nai Brith, he said, I remember those “a**holes from the last time I was in Canada,” and they would be trying to get people to not come to my shows and to join them in the belief that I am an anti-Semite. “Now,” he continued, “It’s impossible to have any conversation about the Zionist project in Palestine without using the word apartheid because it has become generally accepted by anyone with an IQ above room temperature or anyone who has any knowledge at all the situation in the occupied territories.” Five or six years ago, said Waters, one couldn’t use the word “apartheid” in reference to the “Zionist agenda.” You couldn’t do it, it was absolutely verboten … ,” he added, using the German word for “forbidden.”
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