Hours before his controversial concert in the Olympiahalle, Roger Waters circulated a message on social media in which he portrayed Israel as a “tyrannical, racist regime” and the struggle of the anti-Semitic BDS movement in the tradition of the White Rose. He also published a video showing him and his wife Kamilah Chavis at the grave of Hans and Sophie Scholl in the Perlacher Forst, where he claims to have laid white roses.
The “White Rose” fought peacefully against a tyrannical regime that murdered the Jewish brothers and sisters, writes Waters. Today these brothers and sisters are the Palestinians. The resolution of the German Bundestag, which in 2019 classified the BDS movement, which called for a complete boycott of Israel, as anti-Semitic, let the Germans look on “quietly and indifferently” at the institutionalized murder of the Palestinian people.
Some in power and the Israeli lobby wrongly accused him of being an anti-Semite. Since he’s been in Munich, he’s felt like “Big Brother” is watching him. He is proud of all brothers and sisters, whether BDS or not, who stand up for human rights. “You all carry the torch of Sophie and Hans Scholl and the rest of the White Rose movement,” Waters told his fans.
There was a big debate in Munich as to whether Roger Waters should appear given his closeness to the BDS movement and his Russian propaganda stories. To set an example, the city has lined the way to the Olympic Hall with Israeli and Ukrainian flags. A rally in front of the hall is also planned.