Sharon Osbourne at the 30th Annual Elton John AIDS Foundation Academy Awards Viewing Party in Los Angeles, California on March 27, 2022. Photo: Fayes Vision/startraksphoto.com via Reuters Connect

British television personality Sharon Osbourne has called former Pink Floyd vocalist Roger Waters an antisemite following the release of a new documentary in which close former colleagues of the musician detailed his long history of antisemitic comments.

Speaking on the British show The Talk, Osbourne — who is the wife of Ozzy Osbourne, the former lead vocalist of the heavy metal band Black Sabbath — said that Waters routinely insulted Jews and that the 80-year-old was no longer relevant.

“I’m a Jew and I know him. I know his reputation that precedes him in our industry,” said Osbourne, 70. “He laughs, he’s always telling jokes about Jews, always making comments about money, the cliché, you know, old time opinion. He must have really lost the plot and should really go and actually take his life and live in an old people’s home and leave the Jews alone … That’s where he belongs.”

When asked whether she thinks Waters is an antisemite, she replied: “Is the Pope a Catholic?”

The documentary released last Thursday — titled “The Dark Side of Roger Waters” — features interviews with legendary producer Bob Ezrin and saxophonist Norbert Statchel, both of whom are Jewish, detailing Waters’ record of making antisemitic remarks.

Among the incidents they recalled was one of Waters suggesting that the giant flying inflatable pig that has become a prominent feature of his concerts should be decorated with a Star of David and the phrases “follow the money” and “dirty k-ke,” an antisemitic slur.

The UK-based advocacy group Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA) produced the documentary, which included Statchel recalling a time when Waters objected to a series of vegetarian dishes served during a dinner at a Lebanese restaurant by denouncing the meal as “Jew food” and demanding that the servers remove it from the table.

Waters — a strong supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement targeting Israel — has denied being antisemitic and taken offense to the suggestion that his anti-Zionist views are rooted in hatred toward Jews.

The musician sparked controversy earlier this year during his tour in Germany, where he performed a concert in what resembled a Nazi SS uniform. During the same tour, Waters also showed a projection that compared the death of Anne Frank, the young Jewish girl who perished during the Holocaust, with the killing of Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, who was accidentally shot and killed last year while covering an Israeli military raid in the West Bank.

On Friday, hours before the start of the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, Waters released a statement on his website in response to the allegations made in the documentary.

“I am active in the non-violent protest movement against the Israeli government’s illegal occupation of Palestine and its egregious treatment of Palestinians,” Waters said in part. “Those who wish to conflate that position with antisemitism do a great disservice to us all.”

Waters did not confirm or deny many of the allegations made in the documentary. Instead, he said, “Truth is, I’m frequently mouthy and prone to irreverence … But I can say with certainty that I am not, and have never been, an antisemite.”

Watch Osbourne’s interview below.