Patagarri inton “free Palestine” and the controversy breaks out

There is no concert for May 1st in Rome that it is really such without controversy and aftermath. Under the spotlight, on this tour, they end up Patagarri, a Milanese band that in several will remember for participation in X Factor in 2024which has intoned from the stage “Free Palestine”making it repeat to those present, On the notes of “Hava Nagila”a song of the Jewish tradition. Inspired by a Popular Melodia Ukrainian of the Bucovina, the song was composed of the musicologist Abraham Zevi Idelsohn In 1918 to celebrate the British victory in Palestine at the end of the First World War. A gesture that has collected the applause of many artists-colks and turned on the audience of May 1st, in fact a Palestinian flag was waved among those present, but he triggered the ire of the Jewish community.

“Obtaining our culture, of the melodies most expensive to us, to invoke our destruction, is ignoble. There is something really left, macabre, in the performance of the patagarri. Our greatest haters in history are those who have exploited our culture and mentality “, so Victor Fadlun, president of the Jewish community of Rome thundered. And he added:”We would never have expected it in a concert that celebrates the work. Especially in a concert! Like that of the Nova Music Festival, transformed by Palestinian terrorists into a massacre that is not overwith 59 kidnapped by Hamas again in Gaza. We Jews, in the face of these provocative manifestations of intolerance, feel the space of our freedoms to narrow in inexorably. But we are not only losing in freedom, it is the entire civil society“.