Inexperienced Day famously attacked President George W. Bush with its 2004 album “American Fool.”
Now, the ageing rockers are sidling as much as the Palestinian trigger, and their timing couldn’t be worse.
The trio made hay in the course of the 2000s by attacking President Bush’s Iraq Battle efforts. The band expanded its scope within the following years, aligning with the progressive trigger du jour.
It savaged Donald Trump in the course of the 2016 presidential race, backed President Joe Biden’s 2020 marketing campaign and supported Kamala Harris’ failed try to maintain Trump out of the White Home.
They leveraged the “American Fool” album’s legacy at each step.
They’ve been conspicuously silent concerning the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas assault that slaughtered tons of of harmless Jews and took tons of extra hostage. The band members additionally didn’t converse out in opposition to Hamas’ barbaric assault on the Nova Music competition, in accordance with a superb religion Google Information search.
U2 and Madonna forcefully condemned that assault. Rocker John Ondrasik of 5 for Preventing fame has been vigilant in talking out in opposition to Hamas atrocities from Oct. 7 on.
Inexperienced Day lastly discovered its voice by supporting Palestinians following Israel’s livid counter-attack. All of the whereas Hamas terrorists refused to provide again hostages that we later realized had been severely mistreated.
A number of died in captivity.
On Wednesday, the band performed in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and somebody within the crowd threw a Palestinian flag onto the stage. Inexperienced Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong picked it up and draped it over his physique as he performed.
It’s hardly the primary time the band sided with the Palestinian trigger.
Of their music “Peacemaker,” from the album “twenty first Century Breakdown,” Armstrong sings: “Properly, name up the Gaza, hey, hey … Properly, loss of life to those on the finish of the serenade.” In November 2024, Inexperienced Day was performing on the Corona Capital Pageant in Mexico, and through their set Armstrong modified the lyrics of the music “Jesus of Suburbia” to point out help for “Palestine.” The unique lyrics are “From Anaheim to the Center East,” however Amstrong as an alternative sang, “From Palestine to the Center East.”
What’s totally different now? Timing.
A day after their Malaysian live performance, the Hamas authorities launched the our bodies of 4 Israeli hostages, together with a four-year-old and a nine-month-old. Israeli sources declare the brothers had been strangled to loss of life by their captors following a forensic examination of their stays.
Hamas officers farcically allege, with out proof, that the boys died from an Israeli assault.
It will get even worse.
Hamas created a ghoulish celebration to coincide with the hostage handover. Palestinians celebrated over the useless our bodies as loud music performed.
Right here’s how the far-Left CNN described the scene:
As in previous weeks, Hamas used the handover ceremony as a possibility for anti-Israel propaganda. However the juxtaposition of 4 black coffins borne by masked militants reasonably than residing hostages led to widespread condemnation in Israel, whose tv networks – in contrast to in previous weeks – didn’t carry the ceremony dwell.
Hamas additionally lied about one of many 4 our bodies in query. The terrorist authorities despatched the flawed corpse again to Israel – the mom of the useless brothers. The error was corrected the next day.
Will Inexperienced Day condemn Hamas’ newest atrocities? If historical past is any indication, the reply is probably going no.