Munich Philharmonic: Knobloch after concert statement: “Historical Echo”

After the israeli conductor Lahav Shani from a Belgian music festival, the former chairman of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, Charlotte Knobloch, finds clear words. It is “one of the most blatant examples of the current hatred of Jews-bigott, unadorned and outrageous,” said the chairwoman of the Israelite cultural community of Munich and Upper Bavaria of the German Press Agency.

“Great artists like Lahav Shani are forced by supposedly cosmopolitan institutions to either support Israel hatred themselves or to be treated as pariah. This cannot be beaten in low costume.”

The Flanders Festival Ghent had unloaded the Munich Philharmonic with their designated chief conductor shortly before September 18 in Ghent, and this was the reason for the fact that Shani, born in Tel Aviv, is also a music director of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. He had not adequately distanced himself from the “genocident regime in Tel Aviv”.

The orchestra, the city of Munich, Minister of Culture Wolfram Weimer in Berlin and Bavaria’s Minister of Art Markus Blume (CSU) was horrified by the cancellation.

Knobloch: “Historical Echo”

“Anyone who does not hear the historical echo in this situation is deaf,” said Knobloch of the dpa. “In such an environment, it is no wonder for me that more and more Jewish people have their future in Europe with a big question mark.”