Roger Waters suffered the negative effects of his recent damaging interview with Berliner Zeitung newspaper ahead of his now-canceled Germany show.
The city council of Frankfurt, Germany, announced the cancelation of Waters' supposed solo show. It cited that the musician is "one of the world's most well-known antisemites" became the reason for canceling his gig, according to Loudwire.
The one-time Pink Floyd frontman was initially tapped to perform at the Festhalle in Frankfurt on May 28. However, the city council holds 60 percent of the shares in the venue, allowing them to cancel his appearance.
Before announcing their decision, they also let a judge know about their plans.
The city council revealed that the location was used to detain 3,000 Jewish men between Nov. 1 to 19, 1938, following an arrest, according to Jerusalem Post. They added that the singer's support of the BDS campaign and use of antisemitic imagery led them to make the decision.
Waters did not directly respond to the city council's decision to cancel the show. But he retweeted Dr. Ramzy Baroud's post featuring a video of him explaining why he is not an antisemite.
What Happened to Roger Waters?
The buzz started following the publication of Waters' interview with the Berliner Zeitung newspaper earlier this month. His website posted a translated version of the interview, in which he said, "Putin [is] a bigger gangster than Joe Biden and all those in charge of American politics since World War II", and said that Putin "governs carefully, making decisions on the grounds of a consensus in the Russian Federation government."
Pink Floyd David Gilmour's wife and the band's lyricist Polly Samson slammed the singer on Twitter and described him as an antisemite and a "Putin apologist." She also told him to stop his nonsense.
Waters' representative responded and called Samson's tweet "incendiary and wildly inaccurate comments."
However, it was not the first time Waters got embroiled in a similar issue.
In 2013, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach wrote an article for the New York Observer and accused the singer of having "no heart, no decency, and no soul" when he compared Jews to the people - whom the author called monsters - who murdered them.
Waters, at that time, dismissed the claims that he offered an antisemitic remark.
His 2017 concert broadcasts also got canceled due to "accusations of antisemitism against him." The same thing happened to Waters' two scheduled concerts in Poland in 2022 due to the open letter he sent to Ukrainian first lady Olena Zelensk regarding the Ukraine's "extreme nationalists" were to blame for the war.
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