{"id":95123,"date":"2023-04-16T04:00:24","date_gmt":"2023-04-16T04:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/16\/roger-waters-says-he-will-play-frankfurt-despite-city-banning-him-for-antisemitism\/"},"modified":"2023-04-16T04:00:24","modified_gmt":"2023-04-16T04:00:24","slug":"roger-waters-says-he-will-play-frankfurt-despite-city-banning-him-for-antisemitism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/16\/roger-waters-says-he-will-play-frankfurt-despite-city-banning-him-for-antisemitism\/","title":{"rendered":"Roger Waters Says He Will Play Frankfurt Despite City Banning Him For Antisemitism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>In February, town of Frankfurt in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stereogum.com\/2215166\/frankfurt-cancels-roger-waters-concert-calling-him-one-of-the-worlds-most-well-known-antisemites\/news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Germany canceled an upcoming Roger Waters live performance<\/a>, citing \u201cpersistent anti-Israel behavior\u201d from \u201cone of the most widely spread anti-Semites in the world.\u201d Today, the controversial former Pink Floyd singer has introduced that he\u2019s \u201ccoming anyway\u201d in an Instagram publish.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>On Instagram, Waters posted a photograph of Sophie Scholl\u2019s gravesite (Scholl was a German pupil and anti-Nazi political activist who was beheaded through guillotine in 1943 after being convicted of excessive treason for distributing anti-war leaflets on the University Of Munich) and a caption declaring, \u201cWE REMEMBER KRISTALLNACHT! LIKE SOPHIE SCHOLL OUR FATHERS STOOD WITH THOSE THREE THOUSAND JEWISH MEN, AND TODAY WE STAND WITH THE PALESTINIANS!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Waters\u2019 publish additionally signifies that he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2023\/mar\/16\/roger-waters-threatens-legal-action-over-german-concert-cancellations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">filed an injunction<\/a> in opposition to Frankfurt however has not gotten a response. See the complete caption under.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>ROGER WATERS FRANKFURT SHOW UPDATE<br \/>FRANKFURT COUNCIL WERE LEGALLY REQUIRED<br \/>TO RESPOND TO ROGER WATERS INTERIM INJUNCTION<br \/>BY MIDNIGHT APRIL 14<br \/>DID THEY?<br \/>NOBODY KNOWS?<br \/>WE CAN ONLY GUESS AT<br \/>WHAT\u2019S GOING ON IN FRANKFURT?<br \/>ARE THEY PLAYING FOR TIME?<br \/>WHO KNOWS?<\/p>\n<p>NOT THAT IT MATTERS MUCH!<br \/>WE\u2019RE COMING ANYWAY!<br \/>BECAUSE HUMAN RIGHTS MATTER!<br \/>BECAUSE FREE SPEECH MATTERS!<br \/>YES! FRANKFURT CITY COUNCIL<br \/>WE REMEMBER KRISTALLNACHT!<br \/>LIKE SOPHIE SCHOLL<br \/>OUR FATHERS STOOD<br \/>WITH THOSE THREE THOUSAND JEWISH MEN<br \/>AND TODAY WE STAND WITH THE PALESTINIANS!<br \/>WE\u2019RE COMING TO FRANKFURT<br \/>ON THE 28TH OF MAY!<\/p>\n<p>LOVE<\/p>\n<p>R.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote><\/div>\n<p><script>\n  !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n  {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n  n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n  if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n  n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n  t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n  s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n  'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n  fbq('init', '514545615712257');\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] In February, town of Frankfurt in Germany canceled an upcoming Roger Waters live performance, citing \u201cpersistent anti-Israel behavior\u201d from \u201cone of the most widely spread anti-Semites in the world.\u201d Today, the controversial former Pink Floyd singer has introduced that he\u2019s \u201ccoming anyway\u201d in an Instagram publish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":95125,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-95123","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}