Conspiracy theorist and musician Roger Waters has spoken out on Instagram with a new post. In it he comments on the cancellation of his concert in Frankfurt am Main, originally scheduled for May 28th, by the city council and the state of Hesse, as well as on the legal steps he took to save the performance.
The post is highly problematic in a number of respects: Waters included a photo of Sophie Scholl’s grave and wrote: ‘Frankfurt City Council was legally required to comment on Roger Waters’ injunction by April 14. Has this happened? We can only speculate what will happen in Frankfurt. Is there timed play? Who knows?”
Further down in the same post, the musician writes: »It doesn’t really matter what happens. We’re coming anyway, because human rights are important. Yes, Frankfurt City Council, we remember Kristallnacht! Like Sophie Scholl, our fathers sided with the 3,000 Jewish men. And today we stand with the Palestinians! We are coming to Frankfurt on May 28th!«
mockery Roger Waters obviously played down the Holocaust and mocked its victims, indirectly comparing himself in the slightly confused commentary to Sophie Scholl, who, along with the other members of the White Rose, gave her life for freedom. At the age of 21 she was executed by the Nazis.
By the “3000 Jewish men” Waters apparently means Jews who were gathered in the Frankfurt Festhalle during the November pogroms and then deported to concentration camps and murdered. The Roger Waters concert was scheduled to take place in the same hall until it was cancelled.
Another scandalous aspect of his post is that the BDS supporter appears to equate the Palestinians with German Jews who were murdered in the Holocaust. In addition, his formulation shows that he does not really seem to be concerned with criticism of Israel, as he always asserts, but with the spread of undisguised hatred of Jews.
Waters also commented on the situation on Twitter. Under the heading “Freedom of opinion in Frankfurt,” he wrote that the “evidence” was before the court. He is now waiting for the decision. “One way or the other, we’ll be in Frankfurt on May 28.”
