Many artists, musicians, writers and others have signed an online petition demanding that the cancellation of Roger Waters’ upcoming concert in Frankfurt, Germany be rescinded and the performance held as originally scheduled.
The petition argues that the February 24 decision by the Frankfurt City Council and the Hessian State government to cancel Waters’ scheduled May 28 performance is based on thoroughly false and slanderous charges. The German government officials allege that the internationally acclaimed artist and co-founder of the British rock band Pink Floyd is an anti-Semite.
The petition explains that the Frankfurt authorities based their accusation against Waters on his call for “a cultural boycott of Israel,” his comparison of the Israeli government to the South African apartheid regime and his efforts to “put pressure on artists to cancel events in Israel.”
The statement points out that these positions are not unique to Waters, nor are they “outside the boundaries of mainstream public opinion,” and that many human rights organizations such as Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Israel’s B’Tselem, various United Nations agencies and South African officials have also defined Israel as an apartheid state. Meanwhile, innumerable organizations and individuals have made the comparison between Israel and apartheid-era South Africa.
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