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David Draiman, singer of the Neo Metal band Disturbed from Chicago, is one of the few offensive pro-Israel riders in the international rock scenery. When Billie Joe Armstrong built a Palestine line in the song “Jesus of Suburbia” at the performance of Green Day for this year’s coachella and chanted free Gaza calls, Draiman publicly asked the “valued colleague”.
On Saturday evening (July 5), Draiman played as part of an all-star crew at the “Back to the Beginning” concert in Villa Park. Together with current and former members of Anthrax, Megadth and Guns N ‘Roses, there were cover versions of Sabbath’s “Sweet Leaf” or Ozzy Osbournes “Shot in the Dark”.
When the bald head draiman entered the stage, it put aggressive boos.
After the first excitement at the weekend, he now spoke up on social media: “As you can see … I was not” bogged off the stage “as many media people and the #Freepalestine movement had said,” he writes. “There was a boos when I left the stage. But I came to pay homage to my teachers, my idols, the mighty Black Sabbath. I did not intend to have a few Jews hate idiots.”
“I am and will remain a proud, pro-Israeli Jew”
And further: “They are only about feeding their narrative, creating clickbaits and cheering on the hatred of Jews. There is even a fake clip that supports our appearance with reinforced boos, just to pour oil into the fire. Pressual.”
Draiman remains combative: “I am and will remain a proud, pro-Israeli Jew. I will never be ashamed or intimidated for it.”
He plays a special role in the ongoing Israel Palestine conflict. At concerts in Tel Aviv, Draiman sang the Israeli national anthem, described Roger Waters as “anti -Semitic to the Mark” and later even signed rockets of the Israeli army IDF.
“Statements are not aggressive. However, 20,000 children are already murdered”
Draiman’s participation in the Sabbath final goes back to chief organizer Sharon Osbourne. In this permanent conflict she is also not a blank leaf. After the Irish mask rapper Kneecap had voted at the coachella “Free Palestine” speaking choirs, Osbourne demanded withdrawal their work visa for the United States. She claimed that the appearance in California threatens the “moral and spiritual integrity” of the festival. The band then countered with the words: “Statements are not aggressive. However, 20,000 children are already murdered.”
Sharon Osbourne then attacked the band again and described the trio as “pitiful”, ‘uneducated’ and “full of hatred”. “My whole attitude is: have your own political attitude. It is afraid for me, which you believe in, but do not bring it to a music festival where there is peace. Music connects people, music does not separate people.”