Jazz-pop ensemble I Patagarri told
Rome Jews Friday their Rome May Day concert call of Free
Palestine to the notes of a traditional Jewish song was not
macabre, as the Jews charged, but the war in Gaza was macabre.
"To those who defined our performance yesterday as macabre, we
respond that for us macabre is a world in which thousands of
children are killed, hospitals bombed, civilians exterminated,"
said the group, who have found rising fame after coming third in
the X-Factor.
" A world in which those who ask for peace are accused of
creating divisions and generating anti-Semitic hatred".
Victor Fadlun, president of Rome's Jewish Community, said after
the performance of the Milanese pop-jazz-swing group at the
traditional 'Big Concert' marking May Day in the Italian
capital:
"To appropriate our culture, the melodies dearest to us, to
invoke our destruction, is despicable. There is something truly
sinister, macabre, in the performance of Patagarri. Think of
what Hamas has done to our children. Hearing one of our songs
from the stage of the Primo Maggio on live TV, culminating in
the cry "Free Palestine!", the slogan of the street protests
that invoke the cancellation of Israel, is an insult and an
unacceptable violence. We would never have expected it in a
concert that celebrates work".
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