Coachella’s anti-Israel moment shows how truth is lost in the crowd - editorial

Jerusalem Post - 04:57
On October 7, at another festival called the Nova in southern Israel, thousands of similarly aged attendees were hunted down like prey, shot while hiding, and kidnapped.

It’s highly improbable that while Syrian president Bashar al-Assad was killing hundreds of thousands of his citizens during the country’s civil war that any artist  gracing the stage of Coachella – one of America’s premier music festivals – flashed a huge message across the screen to the massive crowd and to the world reading “F*** Assad, Free Syria.”

But at this year’s festival, which took place last week, popular Irish hip-hop group Kneecap did just that – only the target of its wrath wasn’t Syria, or Iran, or any other brutal regime that has caused massive death and destruction: it was against Israel.

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