Former Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour on stage in Germany. Photo: Reuters/Henning Kaiser

Former Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour has appeared to endorse the recent documentary exposing his estranged bandmate Roger Waters’ inflammatory antisemitic statements.

In a posting on the X/Twitter social media platform, Gilmour shared details of the documentary — titled “The Dark Side of Roger Waters” — with his 290,000 followers.

Produced by the UK-based Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA) and fronted by veteran investigative journalist John Ware, the documentary features extensive interviews with legendary producer Bob Ezrin and saxophonist Norbert Statchel, both of whom are Jewish, in which they recalled several occasions when Waters uttered antisemitic remarks.

A vocal supporter of the so-called Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement targeting the State of Israel who has depicted the media and music industries as slavishly following “Zionist” imperatives, Waters has always taken offense at the suggestion that his stridently anti-Zionist views are rooted in a personal antipathy towards Jews.

Among the anecdotes related by Ezrin was one concerning an impromptu song that Waters wrote about Bryan Morrison, Pink Floyd’s Jewish agent. “I can’t remember the exact circumstance, but something like, you know … the last line of the couplet was ‘cos Morrie is a f–king Jew,'” Ezrin said.

Separately, Statchel said that when he told Waters that his family were Ashkenazi Jews and that most of his father’s relatives had been murdered during the Holocaust, the singer offered to introduce him to “your dead grandmother,” launching into a hackneyed imitation of how he imagined a Polish Jewish woman might speak.

On another occasion, Statchel joined Waters and other band members for dinner at a Lebanese restaurant. Waters and other members of the party became angry when they realized that all the dishes carried out by the wait staff were vegetarian, and contained no meat. “Finally the 12th or 13th dish came out, and the waiter seemed intimidated already by the loudness, and the personalities, and the arrogance,” he said. “Roger kind of pushes it with his arm, and he goes, ‘That’s it! Where’s the meat? This is Jew food, what’s with this Jew food? Take away the Jew food!'”

The film also revealed a series of emails that Waters sent to colleagues producing his live show, proposing in one communication that the inflatable flying pig which is a prominent feature of his concerts be embossed with the words “dirty k-ke” — a particularly offensive antisemitic slur.

The tweet reposted by Gilmour highlighted the antisemitic invective allegedly deployed by Waters, inviting viewers to “judge for yourselves” whether the former Pink Floyd vocalist is antisemitic.

Gilmour’s musical partnership with Waters has not prevented the pair from directing barbs at each other since Pink Floyd’s split in 1985. Gilmour has remained active on the musical front, releasing a new album this month in a collaboration with British electronic music pioneers The Orb.

In February of this year, Gilmour shared a tweet posted by his wife, the novelist Polly Samson, in which she told Waters: “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.”

Waters has not directly addressed the specific allegations made against him in the documentary, reiterating his angry rejection of the antisemitism accusation in a video released last week.

“You have to ignore the allegations, Palestinian or not,” Waters told a Palestinian fan based in Germany who asked for advice as someone who “wants to fight for the rights of her people without facing such allegations.”

While he ignored Ezrin’s claims about his antisemitic comments, Waters went on the offensive this week when he claimed the producer had been “lying through his f—king teeth” in an interview with Total Guitar magazine about his work producing Pink Floyd’s 1979 album “The Wall.”

Waters’ ire was sparked by a quote from Ezrin claiming that Gilmour’s iconic guitar solo on “Comfortably Numb” — one of the album’s most popular tracks — had been recorded in one take.

However, the magazine subsequently apologized for misquoting Ezrin, clarifying that in his interview, he had been referring to Gilmour’s first, shorter guitar solo on the song, and not the latter solo, which is more widely recognizable.

“Total Guitar is happy to set the record straight, and we offer our sincere apologies to Bob Ezrin, Roger Waters, and David Gilmour for any misunderstanding arising from the interview we published in 2022,” the magazine said.