Douwe Bob and his family have fled from the Netherlands: the singer was threatened after he walked away at a performance for Jewish children. And now he is already pontifically on stage. “PR-Stunt!”
Critics like René van der Gijp don’t understand it at all: why did Douwe Bob run away from that party for Jewish children? The singer said he saw ‘Zionism’ on a poster somewhere, while according to people like Bram Moszkowicz, that means nothing more than striving for an independent Jewish state. Douwe missed the shelf?
Critical
Anyway: Douwe has been threatened because of his remarkable action and fled abroad, together with his family. Yet he was on the podium of Festival Gelderpop last night without any protection. There he was received with cheers. “Although some critical notes were also cracked among the fans,” reports De Telegraaf.
A reporter from the Dagblad was present, but Douwe did not want to speak to media. That is why the reporter started talking to festival visitors. And some of them turn out to be particularly critical …
PR-Stunt
Festival goer Eefje thinks it is a shame that everything was made so politically, but: “He should have just performed at that football club. Now he made it unnecessarily such a riot.”
One Joost is cracking a critical note. “I also think it was a little attention. It has just turned out to be a good PR stunt. Although that threaten all the limits afterwards.”
Soup
How is Douwe generally received? “Some people showed some boo, but there was mainly a cheerful party,” said De Telegraaf.
“The field for the main stage was therefore full of festival -goers in no time, who are particularly in the mood for music and not in politics.”