At the Concertone of May 1st in Piazza San Giovanni, in Rome, the Patagarri launched a pro Palestine message, and they did it using the Jewish song Hava Nagila: “When we discovered the history of this passage, 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 to accompany it with a clear message: ad agi.
A message that has created controversy with the Jewish community: «Obquesting our culture, the melodies most expensive 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, “wrote Victor Fadlun, president of the Jewish community of Rome.
But now the band's response came from Instagram:
«We are human beings who are unable to be silent in the face of death and destruction, musicians who have learned from music to seek what unites and not what it divides, to make a set of a set of diversity work. We played a song of the Jewish tradition, which has long been part of our repertoire and is part of it because we have never been against one population or another. But we felt the need to deprive her of the original text, which speaks of the joy of being together, to underline that for too long, in the Middle East, that joy no longer exists “.
«We thus wanted to testify the stories of civilians, that is, of those who pay the highest price during the wars, because they are innocent victims. Any international report underlines that the price in terms of deaths, wounded, mutilated, that the Palestinian community is paying following the war is unacceptable. With our testimony we did nothing but reiterate objective data. To those who defined our performance of yesterday Macabra we reply that for us macabre it is a world in which thousands of children are killed, bombed hospitals, endless civilians ».
«A world in which those who ask peace are accused of creating divisions and of generating anti -Semitic hatred. Let us then agree on what are the right words to ask that children no longer die, that hospitals are no longer bombarded, without being accused of invoking the destruction of the Israeli people, without ending up in this rhetorical trap of anti -Semitism, accused through unbearable sophisms, while people continue to die “.
