Eric Clapton: ‘Israel Is Running the World’
Guitar hero shares antisemitic tropes in shocking new interview
“Roger Waters found his guitar player” – John Ondrasik, Five for Fighting.
Eric Clapton, the rock legend who was pilloried for questioning vaccine mandates during the pandemic, just enraged another large group of people.
Who?
Those who don’t think Israel controls the world. Plus, anyone horrified by the Ivy League presidents who downplayed raging antisemitism on their campuses late last year.
Who won’t be outraged? Clapton’s “brother,” former Pink Floyd musician Waters.
Clapton, 79, gave an interview to The Real Music Observer YouTube channel last week which will shock legions of fans. In it, Clapton cheered the pro-Palestinian protests raging across America and elsewhere. Said protests featured violence against Jews, property destruction and nonstop antisemitic rants.
Clapton approves. It gets worse.
He compared the Senate hearings where the aforementioned academics couldn’t condemn antisemitism akin to the Nuremberg trials.
“The Senate committee chairman asked pointed questions to presidents of universities, saying, ‘I just want to hear yes or no. Don’t talk to me about context. Yes or no, are you promoting antisemitism on your campus?’ And I thought, what is this, the Spanish Inquisition? And it is! It’s AIPAC, it’s the lobby. Israel is running the show. Israel is running the world.”
Jewish control over large swathes of the culture is one of the most tired, and hateful, tropes against that community. And he shared it without blinking.
Ondrasik, who mocked Clapton’s comments on X, is one of a very select group of musicians who have supported Israel’s right to self-defense following the Oct. 7 attacks by Hamas which killed 1,200 people. Disturbed frontman David Draiman is another, but their numbers are shockingly small.
Waters has been dogged by accusations he’s an antisemite for some time, including from former Pink Floyd member David Gilmour.
Exactly.
Tired of celebrities and musicians opining in areas where they have no expertise. Same with sports.
If you are not being discriminated against and have no grievance that government can fix, who cares what you think.
““One man’s ways may be as good as another’s, but we all like our own best.
Ay, so it always is, I believe.”
Makes you wonder what Clapton thought of Peter Greene, Michael Bloomfield and all the other Jewish musicians that he knew….
I guess all the years eric has gained by being in the ‘spiritual’ AA has done him no good .. AA teaches tolerance and restraint, but hearing this from clapton is na huge disappointment, so removed from his public personna .. to condemn thge Jews and invoke this tired stereotype is just stupid
The Layla album saved Clapton’s career as a guitarist when in reality, all the brilliance there was Duane Allman.
So, Eric – when you need a hospital to go to when you’re at your Beverly Hills home, make sure you tell the ambulance driver Cedars Sinai is not on your list….
To the headline editor: He’s not a hero; there is nothing heroic about him. All he does is play a musical instrument, same as billions of others.
Further, his comments do, however, make him scum.
A shocking number of the rich and famous are either very ignorant or just plain bad people. That plus the effects of decades long drug and alcohol abuse and dementia. This is coming to light with the sixties generation.
Reminds me of what Mr. Miyagi said about Clapton, “Hand slow, brain slower.”
Does he realize that Jews are 1.5% of the population of the world?
the noticing continues.
Actually 0.2% of the world population.
Actually they are 0.2 percent of the world’s population and they control well over over 50% of the worlds money. THAT is how they can actually control the world and make it seem to the world they are a tiny oppressed minority-at least to the extremely stupid snowflakes here and everywhere. Do the research woke marxists, don’t just knee-jerk and call anyone you disagree with an antisemite.
Really,
Where do you get this Fact? (other than out of your butt) if you can honestly back that up I want the VALID source.. other than that you are just creating BS
Even the Fed. Reserve is run by them.
Most of the Fed. Chairmans were Jewish.
They didn’t like when Kennedy started printing his own money.
Fuzzy math Heir Himmler. Try again. We know you believe you’re selling the Truth about them world controlling Jews. 100% false diatribe.
As of 2023, the world’s core Jewish population is estimated to be 15.7 million people, which is about 0.2% of the world’s population.
Eric the half bee, a mediocre, overrated guitarist should have kept his mouth shut to prevent embarrassing himself.
Eric Clapton should stick to music!!!!!! I do not think he ever opened a history book!!!!!!
Ditto
All Actors, Musicians, Athletes and the Rest should SHUT up… there opinion is NO MORE VALID THAN ANYONE ELSE.
HOWEVER
all of them like to think they are special, because they have a Talent… Does not mean they are good HUMANS…
So they all should shut up
Evidently, Eric hasn’t heard of China.
The article proves his point.
And people associate great guitar work with intelligence? Please explain why.
Even heavy metal musicians are sounding like self censoring pansies these days. I was reading comments on a metal website last night and it was just like reading the comments on a Yahoo political article.
How true
For blind Mr. Clapton, he has joined the ranks of ,dictator Xi and Erdogan on the wrong side of history.