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.
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
It is a simple equation:no people(Palestinian)backing,no Hamas!
Israel’s army is fighting against people and that includes women,children,elderly,young beside fighters.
How can someone be on the side of the ultimate Army against a chador people?!!
This is happening while everyone tells about democracy, solidarity etc…
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.
EC is totally right. Hey Israel, stop committing genocide and intentionally starving children. You’re losing the war and creating more enemies.
Genocide!!? Are you serious? These so called Palestinians ( Arabs) have been procreating!!! There are more of them now in Gaza than when Israel gave it to them in 2005 !!! Do the math!! Look up the definition of genocide!!!! It’s when you eradicate a population. Like the Nazis did to the Jews in Europe! There were not more Jews in Europe when the Nazis were finished with killing them!!!! You sound like a moron!!! There are so many of Palestinians that no one wants them!!! Ask Egypt or Jordan why they won’t take them!!?? How would u like it if they came to your house and raped and tortured your family and then either beheaded them or burned them alive? I hate stupid ppl like u. You are nothing but a Jew hater. The Nazis would have loved you!!
Less than half million Jews died in WW2, according to World population census of the World Almanac.
Eric Clapton is correct, Israel or the Rothschild banking family runs the world.
That’s why Israel is untouchable, made sure by the US and it’s Allies.
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.
This is a validated Response .2% is accurate.. But who cares.
I do not care about Race, Religion beliefs… but the ISRAELI state is very prejudice…
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.
I respect EC as a musician and appreciate that he cares enough about geo-politics to share his opinions on such matters. That said, I wish he had taken greater care to avoid the trap that so many fall into, namely, reflexively thinking that one side can do no wrong and the other side can do no right.
The unfortunate truth is that neither side’s hands are clean and both sides have committed atrocities to the other in a never-ending bloody tug-of-war going back thousands of years to the time of the Canaanites. Frankly, I think that there is sufficient reason to despise both sides.
The Hamas/Gaza-Israel situation is a complicated one with no good or easy solutions. I think many reasonable people can agree that Israel has a right (and arguably a duty to its citizens) to defend itself from terrorist attacks, while also agreeing that high numbers of civilian collateral damage (death and injury) is repugnant.
To me, the issue is less about whether or not one agrees with EC’s opinions, and more about who gets to say what about whom.
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.
Use some common sense, Clapton. If Israel were running the world people like you would be silenced. Permanently. Israel is weary off falling back while Hamas rebuilds and plans for another horrendous attack. Hamas must be eradicated once and for all, even to the point it will not raise up followers a generation from now. See, if Hamas were to lay down their weapons there would be a span of peace. If Israel lays down their weapons there will be no more Israel.like the Pro abortion crowd says about being a woman commenting on abortion until you’ve seen up close the handiwork of these fanatical animals keep your mouth shut about the way it’s being handled.
clapton has been an anti-Semite for years. These recent comments are not surprising. Too much alcohol and drug addles the mind. Just look at roger waters.
I wasn’t aware of previous comments by Clapton that suggested this mindset….
Absolutely nothing he said was antisemitic. Get over yourself.
I had no idea he was. I have been such a fan. I have seen him 4 times in concert. I’m Jewish and a daughter of Holocaust survivors. Now my view of him is destroyed. But him being a Brit does not surprise me bc I lived in London for a year and they hate Israel and they are very anti semitic. So in a way I’m not surprised.
If Israel were to lay down their weapons they would have spared 40,000 people from war criminal Netanyahu’s genocide. They’ll take out a whole neighborhood block of innocent people if they think they might get one Hamas fighter. Israel is acting every bit as much a terrorist as Hamas in this scenario. Settling, colonizing, bombing and starving. Shame on Israel government and military. If their goal is to create more enemies and terrorists then they are succeeding.
You obviously are an anti semite. And you hide it under saying that Israel are the bad guys. It’s quite obvious. I suggest you throw out your cell phone and computer bc all the chips that are in those devices have been invented by the Israelis. I dare you. And? Most probably a lot of the meds you take were invented by the Israelis. Most medical inventions were invented by the Israelis.
You do realize that there are no civil liberties or rights allowed in Gaza!!! Queers for Palestine?. I dare any of them to go to Gaza or any Muslim country!! They will be beheaded or thrown off some roof in a nano second. Women hv no rights. You talk out of your ass. I’d say your brain but you have none. I suggest you do some research on Israel and whose land this was. The Jews or Hebrews hv been around for 5000 years. Moses took them out of Egypt to Israel. Also known as Judea. There never was a Palestine. A name the Brits gave it. Go get some books on it and learn something. And btw. 80% side with Israel!! Every country has a right to defend one’s self if they are attacked! And I bet if you and your family were brutally attacked!!??? Ha!! You would do the same!!!
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
He’s 79. How much longer has he, or me for that matter, have to go. Why would he go out being labeled at anti-Israel? hamas slaughtered 1500 unarmed men, women and children in Israel. and he says Israel is running the world.
It’s shocking, isn’t it? We can disagree on the best path forward re: Gaza … but his comments are beyond the pale.
1500?
That’s what Israel said, most likely a lie, like the 40 killed, beheaded babies story claim.
Israel killed many of its own citizens on oct. 7th, during the fighting with Hamas.
please note Hamas which has been preparing for an attack on Israel for years with its tunnels did not build any bomb shelters for the Palestinians.. most countries separate their military forces from their people because their job is to protect them. not so Hamas
they are not allowed in the tunnels. they’re using them as shields. As a result tens of thousands of thousands have been killed by the Israelis. what choice does Israel have if it is to eradicate Hamas? October 7th attack made it clear that they have no choice but to eliminate them. Any country would do exactly the same thing. The United States killed 200,000 German civilians in World War II as a way to finally defeat Hitler. no one accused them of genocide and we did not warn the population of the bombs to follow as Israel is doing in Gaza. If this were true genocide there would be 2 million dead Gazans. Of course the women and children dying are a tragedy but what choice has Israel had. they have to endHamas’ rule just as we had to stop Hitler. The difference has been the media’s coverage of the war including the BBC so yes Israel comes out looking like the villain. and seemingly well meaning musicians artists and students become Israel’s enemy because of the news they are being presented
For blind Mr. Clapton, he has joined the ranks of ,dictator Xi and Erdogan on the wrong side of history.
Hamas killed 1500 innocent. Israel killed 36,224+ innocent.
You can’t compare!! Do the math! AND!!? You take the word of HAMAS! Their leader doesn’t even live there . He is shacked up in Bahrain Ina luxury hotel!! He could care less about his ppl! These ppl lie. They can tell u 100,000 ppl were killed.
And where did all the food and water go? To the terrorists buddy! Not the ppl!!! Wake up!!
More like 40,000 Palestinians killed!
2/3s of Gaza destroyed, Palestinians have no homes, nowhere to go!