Jewish groups, politicians and civil society groups are protesting Roger Waters' concert in Frankfurt.
Waters has also drawn their ire for his support of the BDS movement, which calls for boycotts and sanctions against Israel.successfully challenged the moveThe concert is taking place in the city’s Festhalle, where in November 1938 more than 3,000 Jews were rounded up by the Nazis, beaten and abused, and later deported to concentration camps.
“It’s very frustrating” that the concert is going ahead as scheduled even though Frankfurt officials and many others tried to prevent it, Elio Adler, the head of the Jewish group WerteInitiative which supports the protest, told the“His words and imagery spread Jew-hatred and are part of a trend: to normalize Israel-hatred under the protection of freedom of speech or art,” Adler added.
He claimed that ”attempts to portray those elements as something else are disingenuous and politically motivated.” The organizers also held a joint Jewish-Christian prayer for the victims of the Nazi terror in Frankfurt. The city’s mayor as well as the head of the local Jewish community were set to speak at the protest.
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