{"id":61143,"date":"2025-10-11T17:14:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T15:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=61143"},"modified":"2025-10-13T19:56:30","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T17:56:30","slug":"a-socialist-mayor-bans-a-concert-by-a-jewish-singer-who-rejected-hamas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2025\/10\/11\/a-socialist-mayor-bans-a-concert-by-a-jewish-singer-who-rejected-hamas\/","title":{"rendered":"A socialist mayor bans a concert by a Jewish singer who rejected Hamas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The anti-Semitism of much of the left and its attacks on freedom are beginning to form an increasingly scandalous cocktail.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2025\/07\/02\/\u0435zh\u043eff-band-i-want-to-be-with-you-a-very-good-music-video-about-the-hamas-pogrom\/\">\u0415zh\u043eFF Band: 'I Want to Be with You', a very good music video about the Hamas pogrom<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2025\/06\/13\/eyal-golan-am-yisrael-chai-a-song-of-a-people-for-whom-life-is-a-victory\/\">Eyal Golan, 'Am Yisrael Chai': A song of a people for whom life is a victory<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>Today we have a new example in the Brussels region, which is the capital of Belgium and the administrative center of the European Union. <strong>Charles Spapens, mayor of Vorst<\/strong> (one of the 19 municipalities in that region), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrt.be\/vrtnws\/nl\/2025\/10\/10\/optreden-disturbed-vorst-geannuleerd\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">has banned a concert by the American heavy metal band Disturbed<\/a>, which was scheduled for October 15 as part of the Vorst Nationaal festival. Spapens argued the following: <strong><em>\"Given the unfavorable assessment by the police and the unique geographical location of the venue, it was my duty to make this decision.\"<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This controversial decision comes after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hln.be\/binnenland\/vorst-nationaal-neemt-geen-actie-tegen-zanger-van-disturbed-die-israelische-bom-signeerde~a11eae61c\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a media campaign against Disturbed frontman David Draiman for showing his rejection of Hamas terrorists<\/a> by signing an Israeli Army projectile with the phrase \"Fuck Hamas.\" <strong>Some internet users had criticized Draiman's stance against the Islamist criminal group<\/strong> and his support for Israel following the anti-Semitic massacre of October 7, 2023, the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust.<\/p>\n<p>It just so happens that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrt.be\/vrtnws\/nl\/2025\/10\/10\/optreden-disturbed-vorst-geannuleerd\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Draiman is Jewish and a descendant of Holocaust survivors<\/a>. In fact, <strong>Distubed<\/strong> has a song, \"Never Again,\" dedicated to the Holocaust and deniers.<\/strong> It can be heard here in a music video that includes footage from a 2023 concert by the band in Tel Aviv:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Disturbed \u2013 Never Again [Live in Tel Aviv 2023]\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aRV4N5xPUY4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>One might wonder what criteria will be followed from now on when banning events: <strong>Will every concert that is not to the liking of the far left and Islamists be banned, for fear of violent reprisals?<\/strong> Will any concert by an artist who has condemned communism, discriminatory treatment of women in Islamic countries, or the hanging of homosexuals in Iran also be banned? Furthermore, <strong>would that socialist mayor have banned that concert if the singer were a socialist threatened by the far right?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the end, <strong>these bans falsely appealing to security are always imposed by the same people, the leaders of an intolerant left<\/strong> who use the violence of the far left and Islamism to degrade our freedoms and <strong>cancel all those they don't like<\/strong>. What Charles Spapens has done is a decision worthy of an anti-democrat, which brings Belgium a little closer to the lack of freedom that exists in countries with a Muslim majority. <strong>How long will it take them to ban music itself so as not to upset the most radical Islamists?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>---<\/p>\n<p><small>Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/disturbed1.com\/san-francisco-update\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Disturbed<\/a>.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The anti-Semitism of much of the left and its attacks on freedom are beginning to form an increasingly scandalous cocktail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11348],"tags":[11829,11449,11052,12063,25476,25474,828,10796,25479,25480,25478],"class_list":["post-61143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-antisemitism","tag-belgium","tag-brussels","tag-censorship","tag-charles-spapens","tag-disturbed","tag-hamas","tag-socialism","tag-socialist-party-wallonia","tag-vorst","tag-vorst-nationaal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61143"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}