Roger Waters faces Argentina, Uruguay hotel ban amid ‘anti-Semitism’ row

BUENOS AIRES – A complaint of “anti-Semitism” was filed against Roger Waters in Argentina Wednesday as the former Pink Floyd frontman, on tour, accused “the Israeli lobby” of barring him from hotels in South America.

Waters, just off several concerts in Brazil as part of his “This Is Not a Drill” tour, is scheduled to perform in Montevideo on Friday, followed by Buenos Aires next Tuesday and Wednesday.

But the British-born performer, a known critic of the Israeli government, told Argentina’s Pagina 12 newspaper he has no choice but to stay in lodgings in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

“Somehow these idiots of the Israeli lobby managed to co-opt all the hotels in Buenos Aires and Montevideo and organized this extraordinary boycott based on the malicious lies… about me,” Pagina 12 quoted him as saying in an article published in Spanish.

Waters added: “I have not had a single…