Pink Floyd icon accused of “desecrating the memory of Anne Frank and the 6 million Jews murdered in the Holocaust,” by Israel Foreign Ministry.
Elsewhere during the spectacle, Waters sang “Lay Down Jerusalem ” while displaying the phrase “F$%& the occupation.”
At one point, a screen shaped like a crucifix displayed the names of deceased figures, including George Floyd,whose death at the hands of Minnesota police officers sparked global protest and resulted in the formation of Black Lives Matter. Perhaps most controversial was the inclusion of Anne Frank, the Jewish teenager killed during the Holocaust, and Abu Akleh, an Al Jazeera journalistwhile covering a raid by the Israel Defense Forces on a Palestinian refugee camp.
Many Palestinian sources, along with CNN, claimed that she’d been deliberately targeted by the IDF, although the latter has denied this claim,Either way, members of the Jewish community found this juxtaposition, as well as the concert as a whole, highly problematic. An undated photo of Anne Frank, the young Jewish girl who, with her family, hid from the Nazis in Amsterdam, Netherlands, during World War II.“Good morning to every one but Roger Waters who spent the evening in Berlin desecrating the memory of Anne Frank and the 6 million Jews murdered in the Holocaust,”
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