This week, INADI and the Delegation of Argentine Israeli Associations (DAIA), denounced Roger Waters, and expressed their “concern about the anti-Semitic stance that the artist usually asserts in his recitals.” The Pink Floyd bassist, who will perform on November 21 and 22 at the Most Monumental Stadium as part of the “This is not a drill” tour, is one of the main defenders of the movement to boycott Israel, and has been banned from performing recently in Frankfurtafter the city called him “one of the best-known anti-Semites in the world.”
Waters was scheduled to perform on May 28 at the Frankfurt Festhalle, which during the Holocaust It was the place of deportation of 3,000 Jews after Kristallnacht. “The background to the cancellation is the persistent anti-Israel behavior of the former Pink Floyd leader,” the city explained in a statement.
He added that Waters “repeatedly called a cultural boycott of Israelmade comparisons to the apartheid regime in South Africa, and pressured artists to cancel events in Israel.”
Waters’s anti-Israel activism He has frequently been accused of veering into anti-Semitism: he often displays a pig-shaped balloon with a Star of David in his concerts, and spoke of the disastrous Jewish lobby in the United States, where he compared Israeli actions in the West Bank to Nazi Germany. .
Waters
Jewish groups in Germany reacted positively to the announcement of the concert’s cancellation. “Anti-Semitism in art and culture should not be tolerated,” said Josef Schuster, head of the Central Council of Jews in Germany. “I applaud this decision,” he said.
Waters’ tour included dozens of other dates across Europe, and now the former Pink Floyd leader has taken legal action against proposals to cancel his concerts in Frankfurt, and at Munich’s Olympiahalle.
Waters’ lawyers argue that the cancellations are unconstitutional, unjustifiable and infringe on his fundamental right to freedom of expression. They plan to reverse the decision and ensure that all those who wish to attend the concerts are free to do so. She now believes that, if this attempt to silence him is not challenged, she might have serious consequences for other artists and activists from around the world. A libertarian argument.
But Waters has also faced criticism in Poland, where concerts were canceled after his comments about the war in Ukraine sparked a backlash. Waters wrote an open letter to Ukraine’s first lady, Olena Zelenska, urging her to ask her husband to choose a different route and criticizing the West for supplying weapons to Ukraine.
This sparked outrage among the Polish media, leading to the cancellation of concerts in Krakow. What is unquestionable here is that Waters’ legal action highlights the growing debate about cancel culture as opposed to the right to express one’s opinions without fear of censorship or retaliation, even if they are wrong. Probably the great legal, media and moral discussion of this time.
Morrissey
The music icon Steven Patrick Morrissey, was supposed to perform at the Movistar Arena in Buenos Aires on September 23, but its Latin American shows had to be postponed since the British frontman was infected with dengue, and will be off the stage for several weeks to recover. However, social networks rumor that his popularity, which affects tickets sold, did not recover after the cancellation of the one that has been a target for some time.
Morrissey himself was furious against cancel culture in a new interview, where he noted that the push for diversity is actually a push for “conformity.”
“They’ll just get rid of you if you say something they don’t agree with, they’re not interested in it,” Morrissey added at the London Palladium during his UK tour. “Now they talk about ‘oh we should have diversity, diversity, diversity’, diversity is people you don’t know and it’s just another word for conformity, it’s the new way of saying conformity“He added that diversity as a concept has completely lost its original meaning of enjoying something precisely because it is unique.
“When people talk about diversity they don’t think about the great things we don’t have in common. Those things are ignored and they always made countries very interesting because you could travel to Germany, you could see the most incredible culture, you went to Italy and you saw the most incredible culture; Now they just want everything to be the same,” protested the former leader of The Smiths.
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