Protester crashes stage of Roger Waters concert with Israeli flag
Other people in the audience stood up and waved Israeli flags while singing "Am Israel Chai" (The people of Israel live).
A young pro-Israel activist ran onto the stage in the middle of a Roger Waters concert in Frankfurt last weekend.
The man, identified as Marcel by Israeli Channel 12, is head of the German-Israeli Society organisation’s youth forum in Frankfurt. He interrupted the event by waving an Israeli flag in protest against the allegations of antisemitism levelled against the Pink Floyd co-founder.
Speaking to the Israeli channel after the stage crash, Marcel claimed security guards threatened to “break his arm” if he didn’t hand over the flag backstage, and to break his neck if he didn’t give them his phone.
Waters addressed the protester storming the stage, calling it “unnerving.” It wasn’t the only Israel-related stunt taking place at the concert. Several people in the audience stood up and waved Israeli flags while singing “Am Israel Chai” (The people of Israel live).
Outside the venue, a group of politicians, Jewish organisations and other groups gathered to protest Waters’ concert, which took place at the infamous Festhalle, where Nazis rounded 3,000 Jews and sent them to concentration camps in 1938.
#HERO! This brave man rushes the stage where antisemite Roger Waters was just playing in Frankfurt and waves Israeli flag. Meantime, you hear supporters chant “Am Yisrael Chai” (People of Israel live).
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