You couldn’t make this up, but you don’t have to because it’s happening. Sylvan Adams, a looney Zionist billionaire, unknown outside a circle of funders of McGill University in Montreal, thinks he can reunite Pink Floyd to promote and celebrate the genocide of the Palestinian people. Hmmm?
In a recent interview with The Canadian Jewish News, Mr. Adams, who in the past has paid both the pop singer Madonna and the Argentine National football team to whitewash Israeli apartheid, says he’s trying to have Pink Floyd reform to play a concert in Israel at one of the kibitzes affected by the attack on October 7, 2023. Mr. Adams is quick to avow that this plan would not include the “Nutball” Roger Waters. Well at least you got that right dopey.
Mr. Adams revealed his “fantasy” to reunite Pink Floyd, (AKA Nick Mason and David Gilmour) would be part of a concerted campaign to attack conscientious students at McGill University who are protesting the genocide of the Palestinian people. MrAdams, who has had business cards printed describing himself as “Ambassador for Israel”, is demanding that McGill expel all the students opposing genocide. Already, McGill forced the student union to suspend the student group Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights and sought court injunctions to ban all protests on campus, but this isn’t enough for this heir to a fortune. Adams wants to destroy these conscientious young people’s prospects. Labeling student activists “antisemite fashionistas”, Mr. Adams claims they are funded by Iran, Qatar and China, countries who he claims have spent “trillions of dollars” to “infiltrate campuses”.
In response to Mr. Adams’ authoritarian pressure, I’ve signed a letter to McGill president Deep Saini, which the Canadian Foreign Policy Institute and Just Peace Advocates have turned into an e-mail campaign. Please support the students who have been organizing on their campus to promote international human rights and justice for Palestinians under international law.
In March 2022 seventy-one percent of McGill undergraduates voted to boycott “corporations and institutions complicit in settler-colonial apartheid against Palestinians.” In response the administration threatened to defund the student union if it ratified the vote. Even more impressive, last November 2023 78.7 per cent of undergraduates called on the administration to sever ties with “any corporations, institutions or individuals complicit in genocide, settler-colonialism, apartheid, or ethnic cleansing against Palestinians.” Still, the McGill administration refused to listen. So, now students have rallied, some have gone on hunger strike and together they organized a months-long encampment to push for divestment.
Increasingly the administration and Zionist donors are repressing student protesters. In his, ‘it would be funny if it weren’t so desperately sad,’ interview Mr. Adams proudly identifies a group of wealthy Zionist donors leveraging their wealth to suppress the McGill students’ brave opposition to Israel’s genocidal policy in all the occupied territories.
Mr. Adams also boasts that he and President Deep Saini “agree on everything.” Both men have demonstrated total indifference to Palestinian suffering. Over the past year in Gaza Israel has destroyed everything including almost all the hospitals, and schools and universities, everything then can in an onslaught that’s killed over 100,000. The Lancet medical journal recently reported that the situation in Gaza vis a vis lack of healthcare is so dire that pregnancy is increasingly becoming a death sentence for both mother and child. Yeah let that sink in.
Mr. Adams does not reserve his capacity for racism for his anti-Palestinian bigotry. In the interview he disparages the former Black woman president of Harvard as “incompetent” and a “DEI hire”. He rants about Muslim and Arab immigrants seeking “Sharia law” who fail to “assimilate” to Canadian society. Mr. Adams concludes that “all Western countries are doomed” because Muslim immigrants “are after conquest”.
Mr. Adams, like most racist supremacists, is most likely a coward. It’s a penny to a pound, this “self-described “ambassador for Israel” wouldn’t have the gall or the balls to debate either of these issues in public,
1. Whether Israel is committing genocide?
2. Whether wealthy donors should be allowed to dictate university policy?
I suspect Mr. Adams will demur, preferring to work behind the scenes with his wealthy friends to press McGill’s president to expel these courageous students for opposing this monstrous genocide.
Also, I wish him the worst possible luck in the world in his attempts to suborn the name Pink Floyd, a name I am proud to have helped create, to celebrate the obscene horrors that the state he is so proud to represent has wreaked upon this our hapless world.
Sincerely,
Roger Waters
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