ברגשות מעורבים והערכה מלאה: לא נוטר טינה לג'לו ביאפרה

With mixed feelings and full appreciation: I don’t hold a grudge against Jello Biafra
(translated from Hebrew by Mati Bresky)

My following move won’t be carried out with rational and logic, but with feelings of empathy. That's as far as I know. One might argue,But deep inside I feel, after letting things settle for awhile, that I agree with Jello Biafra's actions. When putting myself in his imaginary shoes, I feel like this man took a brave step with a bleeding heart (in the original, non-cynical meaning of the phrase “bleeding heart”.)

During his interview to Timeout, Biafra was constantly eager to ask Ram Orion questions regarding the political map. He was confused and did not quite understand, how deep and complex runs his misunderstanding about the conflict. Just to remind you, Jello Biafra has cancelled his show in here at the last minute, following a heavy political pressure, yet he chose to come here nevertheless and on his own expense, to see for himself what everyone's arguing about; and though I haven't took sight of him, I know that he did arrive in here. He declared about the cancellation of the show in a very ambivalent letter, published on his Facebook Page Notes. I his letter the man still claims, that he isn't sure whether sticking to his original plan, and coming to play "for people in the belly of the beast", would've been a mistake. He also claimed during his interview with Orion, that he has sought for an option of performing at the Palestinian side, but was politely refused. Probably his music isn't really their audience cup of tea, so he claims.

The man isn't in peace with himself, and he has enough balls to say that he came out a bit naive, in regards to reaching an informed decision. One might say to him, take a look at another artist who performs Spoken Word like yourself – Saul Williams – who came here and gave his words and protest from the belly of the beast, and the following day even took a visit to her wounded places. But its poor wisdom to say to any man, "go and act like someone else". This isn't the way to encourage an independent thought. Jello Biafra's cancellation is also not to be seen as a sign to his support in boycott of "all Israeli things". He still considers holding the show at another time. When, do you ask? not before he'll be complete with himself, rest assured of that. And it might as well just be, that he won’t ever achieve a complete closure, about what's going on in here in the political sense (like myself). Whatever will be, I find it really hard to hold a grudge against him in that case.

מסכים אתך לגמרי. רק לגבי המשכן לאמנויות הבמה – "מקום מנוון ובורגני לאללה" אולי, אבל איזה סאונד קטלני יש לו…