City officials tried to cancel Roger Waters' gig over his anti-Israel positions, calling him 'one of the most widely spread antisemites in the world.'
last year, he said, “I’m absolutely not antisemitic, absolutely not. That hasn’t stopped all the assholes trying to smear me with being an antisemite.”the concert cancellation back in February, the city issued a statement criticizing Waters’ “persistent anti-Israel behavior” and calling him “one of the most widely spread antisemites in the world.
Along with Waters’ support for Palestine and BDS, a particular point of concern was his use of an inflatable pig in his concerts, emblazoned with the Star of David along with other corporate and religious symbols. In Germany, displaying Nazi symbols and memorabilia is against the law. The German court acknowledged that while Waters’ concert use of “symbolism manifestly based on that of the National Socialist regime” was in poor taste, it should be “viewed as a work of art,” and that there wasn’t enough grounds to fully ban the performance.
A spokesperson elaborated further, saying, “It is not for the court to pass judgment on this.” They added that Waters’ performance “did not glorify or relativize the crimes of the Nazis or identify with Nazi racist ideology.”
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