Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,
–Dr. Seuss
Nothing is going to get better. It’s not.
This is a follow-up to the post I made last week about Disturbed frontman, David Draiman and his disturbingly vocal support for Israel’s aggression against Palestinians.
Draiman’s response to being booed at the Back To The Beginning concert staged for Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne’s farewell was typical of the weaponisation of antisemitism we’ve become accustomed to in the last twenty-odd months. All valid and essential criticism of Israel and its depraved military actions in Gaza, and even the cult of Zionism, is now automatically conflated with antisemitism because there simply isn’t any justifiable defence.
There is no evidence that Draiman was ever booed at any of his concerts for around 20 years before he became vocally apologetic for Israel, the IDF, and his signing of bombs being dropped on Gaza. There were also other Jewish musicians performing at the concert, including Scott Ian, singer and guitarist for thrash metal band Anthrax. None of them were booed. The claim, therefore, of “Jew hatred” is absolute rubbish.
On the contrary, Draiman’s X (formerly Twitter) feed is awash with anti-Palestine hatred and the amplification of the depravity ingrained in the IDF’s genocidal onslaught in Gaza. For a musician, he posts an awful lot about unhinged politicians who support Israel, while boosting anti-Palestinian sentiment. No bullshit! Lol!
The dust has barely settled on his humiliating performance at the Back To The Beginning concert, yet Draiman is back in the news, criticising Tom Morello of the band Rage Against the Machine for supporting the pro-Palestine band, Kneecap. Once again, he’s full of shit because Kneecap, far from supporting terror and Jew hatred, are in fact only doing what all decent human beings should be doing: condemning the terror being inflicted by Israel on Palestinians in Gaza.
Sadly, Draiman will never be half the musician that Tom Morello is. While Morello’s Rage Against the Machine was revolutionary in the music world, Draiman’s Disturbed was just another vanilla metal band. Morrelo was also an activist who supported humanitarian causes, while Draiman supports genocide. Morello’s latest contribution is a protest song (in the video above) which calls out Donald Trump’s draconian deportation laws and the egregious injustice against migrants.
Draiman, meanwhile, will probably be best recognised for a raspy cover of the Simon & Garfunkel hit Sounds of Silence, and a crusade against imaginary Jew hatred. Maybe he should just stop insulting other artists who are making meaningful contributions to society and be the sound of silence by shutting the fuck up.
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