«Obquesting our culture, of the melodies deepest to us, to invoke our destruction, is ignoble. There is something really left, macabre, in the performance of the patagarri. The greatest our hates in history are those who have exploited our culture and mentality ».
Victor Fadlun, president of the Jewish community of Rome, writes about the performance of the patagarri at the May 1st concert. The melody to whom Fadlun is reference is that of Hava NagilaJewish passage, an expression of hope and joy composed just over a century ago to celebrate the Balfour declaration of 1917 with which the British government undertook to encourage the creation of a “national house” for the Jewish people in Palestine.
At the Concertone of May 1st in Piazza San Giovanni in Rome the Patagarri used it to send a pro Palestine message, as well as done in the past in concert. “When we discovered the history of this song, which dates back to 1917 and which is linked to the legitimacy of the first Jewish communities in Palestine, we understood that the only way to play it today was accompanied by a clear message: Palestine free,” said the group ad Aging.
“Listening to one of our songs from the stage of May 1 on live TV, culminating in the cry” Palestine Libera! “, The slogan of the squares that invoke the cancellation of Israel, is an insult and unacceptable violence,” comments Fadlun. «We would never have expected in a concert that celebrates the work. Especially in a concert! Like that of the Nova Music Festival, transformed by Palestinian terrorists into a massacre that is not over, with 59 kidnapped by Hamas still in Gaza. We Jews, in the face of these provocative manifestations of intolerance, feel the space of our freedoms to narrow in inexorably. But we are not only losing in freedom, it is the entire civil society ».
