{"id":73039,"date":"2023-02-27T12:31:19","date_gmt":"2023-02-27T17:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=73039"},"modified":"2023-02-27T12:31:19","modified_gmt":"2023-02-27T17:31:19","slug":"frankfurt-cancels-roger-waters-concert-calling-him-one-of-the-worlds-most-well-known-antisemites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/frankfurt-cancels-roger-waters-concert-calling-him-one-of-the-worlds-most-well-known-antisemites\/","title":{"rendered":"Frankfurt cancels Roger Waters concert, calling him \u2018one of the world\u2019s most well known antisemites\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By DAVID I. KLEIN<\/p>\n<p>(JTA) \u2014 Roger Waters, the Pink Floyd bassist who is a leading proponent of the movement to boycott Israel, has been blocked from performing in Frankfurt after the city called him \u201cone of the world\u2019s most well known antisemites.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_73040\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Festhalle_Frankfurt_2016-scaled.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-73040\" class=\"wp-image-73040 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Festhalle_Frankfurt_2016-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Festhalle_Frankfurt_2016-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Festhalle_Frankfurt_2016-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Festhalle_Frankfurt_2016-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Festhalle_Frankfurt_2016-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Festhalle_Frankfurt_2016-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/225;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-73040\" class=\"wp-image-73040 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Festhalle_Frankfurt_2016-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Festhalle_Frankfurt_2016-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Festhalle_Frankfurt_2016-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Festhalle_Frankfurt_2016-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Festhalle_Frankfurt_2016-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Festhalle_Frankfurt_2016-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-73040\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Frankfurt&#8217;s Festhalle. (Photo by Whgler via Creative Commons license BY-SA 4.0)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Waters had been scheduled to perform May 28 at Frankfurt\u2019s Festhalle, which during the Holocaust was the site of the deportation of 3,000 Jews to their deaths just after Kristallnacht.<\/p>\n<p>The city of Frankfurt noted the historical significance of the concert hall, which it partly owns, in&nbsp; announcing that it was canceling Waters\u2019 planned concert. It cited Waters\u2019 longstanding anti-Israel activism.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe background to the cancellation is the persistent anti-Israel behavior of the former Pink Floyd frontman, who is considered one of the most widely spread antisemites in the world,\u201d the&nbsp; city said in a statement. \u201cHe repeatedly called for a cultural boycott of Israel and drew comparisons to the apartheid regime in South Africa and put pressure on artists to cancel events in Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Waters\u2019 full-throated anti-Israel activism has frequently been accused of veering into antisemitism. In addition to backing the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, Waters\u2019 has flown a pig-shaped balloon bearing a Star of David at his concerts, spoken about the alleged power of a nefarious Jewish lobby in the United States and compared Israeli actions in the West Bank to South Africa under apartheid and Nazi Germany. When a British lawmaker was expelled from the Labour Party during its antisemitism scandal, Waters tweeted, \u201cWish I was a Labour party member so I could be expelled in solidarity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jewish groups in Germany responded positively to the announcement of the canceled concert. \u201cAntisemitism in art and culture must not be tolerated,\u201d said Josef Schuster, head of the Central Council of Jews in Germany. \u201cI applaud this decision.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Waters\u2019 tour includes dozens of other dates across Europe, including several within Germany.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Frankfurt%20cancels%20Roger%20Waters%20concert%2C%20calling%20him%20%E2%80%98one%20of%20the%20world%E2%80%99s%20most%20well%20known%20antisemites%E2%80%99\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":73040,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,7137],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73039"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73039"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73041,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73039\/revisions\/73041"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}