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Exclusive: ADL pushed BMG to drop Roger Waters by threatening to weaponize company’s Nazi past - The Grayzone (thegrayzone.com)

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The Grayzone has obtained a private letter authored by ADL director Jonathan Greenblatt threatening to weaponize the Nazi past of the BMG music company unless executives terminated a major deal with Roger Waters. BMG has publicly denied Israel lobby influence on its decision to nix Waters’ contract.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago

I thought that this would be a lot of he-said-they-said handwaving but no, they have the actual letter, that's a threat. The letter basically goes straight for "it would be a real shame if something were to happen to this upstanding establishment," it's almost laughably transparent.