Co-founder of Pink Floyd and anti-Israel activist Roger Waters claims Israel’s military "invented" the chokehold used by a Minneapolis police officer that killed George Floyd.
Waters told the pro-Hamas Shehab News Agency that the Israeli Defense Forces taught Americans the technique that cuts off "blood supply of the carotid artery to the brain."
"That is an Israeli technique, taught to the militarized police forces of the United States of America by Israeli experts, who the Americans have been flying over to the United States, to teach them how to murder the Blacks because they've seen how efficient the Israelis have been at murdering Palestinians in the occupied territories using those techniques," Waters said. "And they're proud of it."
Waters also called casino mogul Sheldon Adelson a “puppet master” over President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
He calls him a “crazy, crazy, crazy guy.”
Adelson is a Trump supporter and pro-Israel conservative.
Waters finishes his interview calling Zionism, a movement that supports an independent state for the Jewish nation, an “ugly stain" that needs to be "gently removed."
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