Why are so many Alternative Rock Bands openly anti-Semitic?
A lot of alternative bands and alt pop musicians I listen to make me feel like they’ll eventually spread anti-Semitic rhetoric. I already have almost completely stopped listening to MARINA, Bastille, Gorillaz, and System of a Down because the musicians either joined BDS, spread blood libel about Israelis, or jumped on both. I listen to a lot of emo music now and I know some bands I listen to donate money to Amnesty International, but never said anything yet about “the genocide in Gaza”. I feel like eventually they will bring it up though because even though there are plenty of Liberal Zionist, the band members are gonna be brainwashed into believing Zionism is exclusively a right wing thing. Listen, I, a Zionist myself and like many other Zionists don’t like Netanyahu, but that doesn’t give people the right to generalize that all people in Israel like him. And these alternative rock celebrities who are joining the Jew hatred movement don’t boycott any other country, but Israel. This is stupid considering how much they consider themselves to be “pro-peace” when they don’t want Israel to exist.
One band I still feel comfortable listening to is Radiohead because they are pro-Israel. Thom Yorke called out anti-Zionists coming to his bands shows. Plus his fellow band members wife is Israeli. I like how Radiohead doesn’t take shit from anyone. Many other rock bands have taken the shit from terrorist blood libel, but I’m glad the members of Radiohead are too smart for that crap. I also know Disturbed’s David Draiman is very much a Zionist, though I don’t really listen to Disturbed that much.