David Gilmour Calls Roger Waters “Antisemitic to the Core”

Band members don’t always get along like peas and carrots.

Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend have been bickering for decades, but they always make up in time tour with The Who’s music. The friction between Mick Jagger and Keith Richards is the stuff of rock legends, but they also make amends when it’s time to hit the stage.

The bad blood between Pink Floyd’s Dave Gilmour and Roger Waters runs much deeper.

In 1985, Gilmour and Waters parted ways. Waters became the sole beneficiary. Launching a legal fight To permanently shutter Pink Floyd. Legally, the effort was unsuccessful, but it did not stop the ex-bandmates launching attacks on each other over the years.

Their 2008 reunion at Live 8 seems like a distant memory, along with their brief and unsuccessful attempts to repair fences.

The chances for reconciliation may be officially zero after this week’s Twitter tirade. Perhaps less than zero.

Polly Samson, a British novelist and Gilmour’s wife, shared an incendiary Tweet targeting Waters. 

“Sadly, @rogerwaters you are antisemitic to your rotten core. Also a Putin apologist and a lying, thieving, hypocritical, tax-avoiding, lip-synching, misogynistic, sick-with-envy megalomaniac. Enough of your nonsense.” The Tweet was rated

That’s when Waters’ old bandmate weighed in. Hard.

“Every word demonstrably true,” Gilmour tweets, backing his wife, and bashing his old mate.

Every word can be proven true https://t.co/KWk4I3bMTN

— David Gilmour (@davidgilmour) February 6, 2023

The anti-Semitism charge has dogged Waters for years. The rocker’s constant attacks on Israel burnished that brand, with many suggesting his critiques move far beyond political disagreements.

It’s personal, his critics routinely cry, a charge he vehemently denies.

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It hasn’t stopped Waters from touring well into his 70s, and he hasn’t softened his voice about geopolitical matters.

He’s still ready and willing to fight back against his detractors. He shared a cryptic Tweet in response to the Samson/Gilmour volley hours ago.

pic.twitter.com/CIIy5r6SyA

— Roger Waters (@rogerwaters) February 6, 2023

The fighting is far from over, most likely. So are any chances the aging rockers could reunite one more time, either for the fans’ sake or an attempt at a late-in-life reconciliation.

In fact, the next fight might just happen in a court of law given the band’s fractured legacy.

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