jews get free tickets by screaming "holocaust"

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Holohoax racket extends to rap music:

Both Farid Bang and Kollegah have rejected claims they are anti-semitic, with the latter artist reportedly offering Jewish fans free "lifetime" tickets.       

Backlash as rap album with Holocaust lyrics takes major German music gong (VIDEO)
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A top German music ceremony has spectacularly hit the wrong note by presenting a rap duo accused of anti-semitic lyrics with a prize on Holocaust Remembrance Day.

At the ECHO music awards, which saw tops artists such as Kylie Minogue and Rita Ora attend, the rap album 'Young, Brutal and Handsome 3' by Kollegah and Farid Bang was recognized for selling more than 200,000 copies.

However, the decision by organizers to award the record, which contains the lyrics "I'm doing another Holocaust, coming with a Molotov" and "more defined than Auschwitz prisoners," has caused a backlash from within the music circles, as well as the airline industry. 

Airbus CEO Thomas Enders has reportedly hit out at the prize, which remarkably came on Yom Hashoah – the Holocaust Memorial Day observed by Jewish communities around the world.

"That hurts Germany's international reputation. Is anti-Semitism becoming acceptable in Germany?" he asked in Bild am Sonntag. Meanwhile, Berlin classical group Noto Quartet has handed back its 2017 ECHO award in protest.

"Until recently, the ECHO was in our eyes the biggest music prize in Germany," the band wrote on its official Facebook. "The fact that this prize of open racism is tolerated... it is not acceptable to us. We very much regret this decision, but the ECHO trophy, which was still in our rehearsal studio in Berlin, is now nothing more than a symbol of shame."

Both Farid Bang and Kollegah have rejected claims they are anti-semitic, with the latter artist reportedly offering Jewish fans free "lifetime" tickets.

Chairman of the BVMI German Music industry, Dr Florian Drucke, has now announced that the decision to give the pair the award will be revised.

"We would like to make it very clear that we too, as an association and organizer of the ECHO, reject all forms of anti-Semitism, xenophobia, misogyny, homophobia and the glorification of violence," his statement read.

"As a consequence, the prize will now be revised on the decision of the board of directors," it added.

MORE HERE: https://www.timesofisrael.com/controversy-builds-over-german-rappers-accused-of-anti-semitism/

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If you're a jew, you get free tickets; but, if you offer free tickets to somebody wearing a swastika, you get investigated by the police. 

German theater investigated over free ticket offer for swastika wearers
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A theater in the southern German city of Konstanz is under investigation, following complaints it promised free tickets to patrons who wear a swastika to a provocative play named after Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf.

The Konstanz Theater in the state of Baden-Württemberg has been offering a controversial deal for the upcoming performance: theatergoers can either pay for their entry or get in for free if they agree to wear a swastika in the auditorium.

Patrons who opt to pay for their ticket will be asked to put on a Star of David "as a sign of solidarity with the victims of National Socialist (Nazi) barbarism," according to the theater.

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The play's premiere symbolically falls on the Nazi leader's birthday, April 20. Multiple complaints were filed against the theater over its free ticket offer, according to media citing a spokesman for the prosecutor's office.

While publicly displaying the swastika and other Nazi symbols is banned in Germany, the prosecutors will decide whether the promotion can be considered as freedom of artistic creation, DW reports.

However, the local German-Israeli Society and the Judeo-Christian Society have described the offer as "tasteless" in a joint letter, calling on the public to boycott the play. "There is a third option: you cannot buy a ticket," it read.

Meanwhile, the play's director, Serdar Somoncu, and the theater's director, Christoph Nix, defended the idea, insisting it wasn't meant as a publicity stunt.

According to German media, so far some 50 people have turned up for free tickets to the ironic play by a Holocaust refugee, George Tabori.

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"There will be no more 'Echo' [awards]," a statement published on the event's official website says   

Oh, NO!!  No awards show?!!!!   How do we get rid of the Oscars?!!!  "Anti-semitism,' that's the answer.   

Germany scraps major music award following anti-Semitic scandal
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German music companies have decided to abolish the prestigious Echo Awards after a rapper duo won the award despite being accused of singing anti-Semitic lyrics. The scandal has prompted many musicians to return their awards.

"There will be no more 'Echo' [awards]," a statement published on the event's official website says, adding that the German Federal Association of the Music Industry (BVMI) decided to completely eliminate it, as "the image of the Echo brand has been so severely damaged that the music awards now requires a ... fresh start." It also says that criteria for the awards nomination would be "completely changed."

The music awards should "by no means" be seen as a "platform for anti-Semitism, sexism, homophobia or downplaying of violence," the statement adds.  It also said that the BVMI would hold a "workshop" in June to develop a completely new concept for a music award.

The scandal that prompted the BVMI to take such radical action began when the rappers known as Kollegah and Farid Bang were nominated for the Echo Award in the category 'best hip-hop/urban album.' The album in question, "Jung, Brutal, Gutaussehend 3" ("Young, brutal, handsome 3"), was widely criticized for containing tracks with lyrics considered to be anti-Semitic. Some tracks, in particular, had lines such as "my body is more defined than those of the Auschwitz inmates" and "I'm doing another Holocaust, coming with a Molotov."

These facts, however, did not prevent the rapper duo from winning the award, which, by coincidence, they received on April 12 – Holocaust Remembrance Day in Israel. This development immediately provoked a wave of indignation from many musicians. Campino, the lead singer of veteran German punk band Die Toten Hosen, lashed out at the rappers' victory during the Echo Awards ceremony, receiving a standing ovation from the audience.

Conductor Enoch zu Guttenberg and Andreas Reiner, a violinist with the KlangVerwaltung Orchestra, then wrote an open letter to the BVMI, in which they called the latest award ceremony a "shame." Many prominent figures in the music industry, including musician, producer and designer of artwork for the Beatles, Klaus Voormann, pianist Igor Levit and German rock star Marius Mueller-Westernhagen, returned their Echo awards in protest.

Daniel Barenboim, a Jewish star conductor and the general music director of the Berlin State Opera, who also returned his Echo awards, denounced the BVMI decision. He also lashed out at the lyrics of the rappers by saying that it was an "abuse" of the freedom of expression.

Even some people not directly linked to the music industry criticized the BVMI decision. Airbus CEO Tom Enders said that it "hurts Germany's international reputation," while Mathias Doepfner, the CEO of the Axel Springer publishing house that controls the German Bild and Die Welt dailies, criticized it in an opinion piece for Die Welt.

The scandal around the music awards occurred at a time when the issue of anti-Semitism came into focus in Germany once again. On April 16, Adam Armush, an Israeli Arab, and his friend were attacked in Berlin, apparently because Armush was wearing a kippah – a traditional Jewish head garment. In response, both local Jews and non-Jews staged a protest dubbed "Berlin wears a kippah," which was supported in other cities. On April 23, German Chancellor Angela Merkel admitted that her country faces a new form anti-Semitism brought by refugees and people of Arab origin. Since 2015, more than a million migrants from predominantly Muslim countries have entered Germany, thanks to Merkel's open-door policy, during the Europe-wide refugee crisis. The influx caused a strong backlash and a rise in popularity of right-wing anti-immigration politicians.