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Popular Korean Band Whose Japan Performance Was Cancelled For T-Shirt Mocking
A-Bomb Victims, Once Posed With Nazi SS Death Head Symbols, Flew Nazi-Like
Flags At Concert
November 11, 2018
The Simon Wiesenthal Center denounced BTS, an internationally popular Korean
band whose live performance on Japan TV was cancelled.
“Wearing a T-shirt in Japan mocking the victims of the Nagasaki A-bomb, is
just the latest incident of this band mocking the past,” charged Rabbi
Abraham Cooper. Associate Dean and Director of Global Social Action of the
Simon Wiesenthal Center, a leading Jewish Human Rights NGO.
Members of the band posed for a photo shoot wearing hats with the Nazi SS
Death Head logo. The SS was a key component of the Nazi mass murder of 6
million Jews during the WWII Holocaust. “Flags appearing on stage at their
concert were eerily similar to the Nazi Swastika. It goes without saying that
this group, which was invited to speak at the UN, owes the people of Japan
and the victims of the Nazism an apology.”
“But that is not enough. It is clear that those designing and promoting this
group’s career are too comfortable with denigrating the memory of the past.
The result is that on young generations in Korea and around the world are
more likely to identify bigotry and intolerance as being ‘cool’ and help
erase the lessons of history. The management of this group, not only the
front performers, should publicly apologize,” Rabbi Cooper added.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/09/world/asia/bts-kpop-japan-cancel.html
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