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April 23, 2025

Stirring Up Anti-Israel Mobs at a Desert Music Festival

Performers know what a crowd wants: powerful basslines and the optics of morality.

The annual Coachella music festival, held in the southern California desert, has since 1999 been one of the most important events in popular music. (Ticket prices start at $599.) This year, a North Irish rap group began its performance by chanting, “Free, free,” to which the crowd knew to respond “Palestine.” After the back-and-forth grew in intensity, the band projected the words “F— Israel. Free Palestine” in giant lettering, to much cheering.

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April 23, 2025

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  2. Stirring Up Anti-Israel Mobs at a Desert Music Festival

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