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.
Unlistenable today. Ridiculoiusly dated, dark and depressing pacifist rant by Waters. Gilmour hit the road before it was even mixed.
Pink Floyd is “awful?”
Yet another reason to keep you on the d00sh-list.
His father died in The Battle of Anzio! Along with 12,000 others in that bloody, 4-month meat grinder.
No blame for ol' Mussolini?? Just Joooos?
Bob Dole was nearly killed near Bologna. Never heard him blame the Jews (or Oscar Meyer).
He’s a hateful bitch. ‘Nuff said.
8 April 2022: BBC: Pink Floyd reunite for Ukraine protest song
by Mark Savage
Gilmour says the song is a show of “anger at a superpower invading a peaceful nation”...
Work on the song began a couple of weeks ago, when Gilmour was shown Khlyvnyuk’s Instagram feed. The singer had posted footage of himself in in Kyiv’s Sofiyskaya Square, fully armed and ready to fight the Russian invasion...
The song carries special significance for Gilmour, as his daughter-in-law is the Ukrainian-born artist Janina Pedan.
He told the BBC she had inspired the artwork for the single, which contains the national flower of Ukraine, the sunflower.
“My daughter-in-law told us the story of a woman at the beginning of this conflict, giving sunflower seeds to Russian soldiers and that she hoped that sunflowers would sprout where they died.”
Gilmour said he found the “powerlessness of the West” in the face of Russian aggression “infuriating” but said he supported the ongoing sanctions against the country...
Asked how he felt about the UK government’s response to the crisis, he expressed frustration at the bureaucracy facing Ukrainian refugees who want to settle here.
“A lot of Europe is saying ‘welcome’ and our [government] is saying, ‘you need to get onto a computer and fill in forms’.
“My view would be to open the doors and sort of paperwork out later. But government doesn’t seem to be following that way of thinking.”...
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-61037080
27 March 2022: Israel365News: BBC interviews Ukrainian soldier with Nazi symbol on uniform
The British Broadcasting Cooperation (BBC) interviewed a Ukrainian soldier donning an infamous Nazi symbol on his uniform without even mentioning the blatant hate symbol during the piece...
In 2014, it (BBC) reported on the role of neo-Nazis in the Donbas conflict and made a documentary about racism and anti-Semitism in the country...
According to Lower Class Magazine, a leftist German publication, the Azov battalion operates a quasi-underground outfit called the “Misanthropic Division.” They recruit heavily among the ranks of neo-Nazi youth in Germany, France, and Scandinavian countries. Foreign fighters are offered training with heavy weapons such as tanks. One former sniper for the Swedish army, Mikael Skillit, became a neo-Nazi volunteer for Azov.
https://www.israel365news.com/352272/bbc-interviews-ukrainian-soldier-with-nazi-symbol-on-uniform/
I know right?
What an entitled capital Jay Jerk
Wikipedia: Polly Samson
Samson’s father was Lance Samson, a newspaper editor and diplomatic correspondent for the Morning Star. Her mother was a writer of Chinese descent, Esther Cheo Ying, who wrote a memoir, Black Country to Red China, about her time serving as a Major in Mao Zedong’s Red Army. Samson’s mother’s second husband was the British journalist Alan Winnington. (Wikipedia: Alan Winnington was a British journalist, war correspondent, and Communist activist most famous for his coverage of the Korean War and the Chinese revolution.)...
Samson has written short stories for BBC Radio 4...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polly_Samson
Former Pink Floyd rocker. He quit the band decades ago. Tried to take down the name Pink Floyd with him but lost the legal battle that ensued.
I saw an interview of him once when he said he and Pink Floyd were later playing in venues across the street from one another. His venue held 2,000 fans. The Pink Floyd venue held 20,000 fans.
I reject racism, but I think concerts that promote Satanism, blasphemy against God, and sexual perversion are worse.
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