Posted on 02/27/2023 1:34:50 PM PST by nickcarraway
The City of Frankfurt, Germany announced that a scheduled Roger Waters concert would be canceled. In their decision, the city council referred to the Pink Floyd rocker as "one of the world's most well-known antisemites."
Waters was supposed to perform at the Festhalle concert hall in Frankfurt on May 28. The venue is not a privately held entity, as the city has a 60% share in the ownership. As such, the city council had the power to cancel Waters gig. The cancellation announcement cited Waters' boycott of Israel, his comparisons of Israel to apartheid South Africa, his declaration of his ties with the Islamist militant group Hamas and his use of a pig-shaped balloon adorned with a Star of David on previous tours.
The council also noted that the historical significance of Festhalle played a role in their decision. The venue was used for the detention of 3,000 Jewish men who were arrested after Kristallnacht in 1938, when Nazis destroyed Jewish-owned stores, buildings and synagogues.
In response to the council's decision, Waters retweeted a video by Dr. Ramzy Baroud, in which the doctor alleged that the rocker’s support for Palestine was the real reason city authorities canceled the show.
The Frankfurt stop was part of Waters’ European leg of the This Is Not a Drill tour. He is still scheduled to play an additional five German shows this May, in Hamburg, Cologne, Munich and two nights in Berlin.
When news of the Frankfurt cancellation became public, the Central Council of Jews in Germany released a statement praising the decision. "Antisemitism in art and culture does not have to be tolerated," it said in part, while also encouraging the venues hosting Waters’ other German performances to follow suit.
The Frankfurt cancellation comes less than a month after Polly Samson, wife of Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour, posted a tweet in which she called Waters "antisemitic" and a "Putin apologist.” Gilmour retweeted the post and declared support for his wife’ claims. "Every word demonstrably true,” he wrote.
I heard he’s a racist and homophobe too. 🤡
The BDS crowd takes one in the chops.
He thinks the Jews killed his father.
Roger Waters has been nuts since “The Final Cut”
That’s when he went nuts? Not when he made a Nazi musical?
“alleged”?
He’s an a-hole
“If you want to know who rules over you, just look for who you are not allowed to criticize.”
I’m sure if he had said bad things about Catholics, Lutherans, or white people in general he would have been allowed to perform, and any criticism would have been met with a shower of “it’s free speech” and “freedom of expression”.
Well, in fairness, he hasn’t taken the PCR test for anti-Semitism yet. But he did have a giant, inflatable pig with a Star of David at one of his concerts, so...
I think he’s proud of it.
Yes, what he’s saying is free speech, but it doesn’t mean we have to applaud it, or give him a venue to spout it. Germany does have some illiberal laws.
The cancellation announcement cited Waters’
* boycott of Israel
* his comparisons of Israel to apartheid South Africa
* his declaration of his ties with the Islamist militant group Hamas
* his use of a pig-shaped balloon adorned with a Star of David on previous tours.
Sheesh... That’s quite a list he’s racked up there.
But I think we are losing sight of the fact that the music is awful.
I don’t even like his music but if you’re going to cancel concerts because the band is offensive than there won’t be any more rock and/or rap shows (which is fine by me , but lots of people seem to enjoy them)
How cruel!
“the music is awful.”
I heard one of his songs on the Deep Tracks the other day and it wasn’t bad. He’s definitely not pink floyd but he’s got some pretty good producers. If he wasn’t such a jerk he probably would have more success. It’s a shame he’s so twisted, it would be nice to see his talent provisioned to something better than jewbashing and americahating.
His views on Israel have been known for years.
This is about his stance on Ukraine.
While I dislike Roger’s politics I am generally against this sort of thing due to the artist’s politics. Of course Germany is a bit of a different situation due to their past.
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