The Patagarri on stage: 'Free Palestine'. The Jewish Community: “Ignoble. A sinister and macabre performance.”

We're not macabre, war is Patagarri tell Rome Jews

Jazz-pop ensemble I Patagarri told Rome Jews Friday their Rome May Day concert call of Free Palestine to the notes of a traditional Jewish song was not macabre, as the Jews charged, but the war in Gaza was macabre. (ANSA)

They sang Free Palestine to the tune of a Jewish song. And the 'Patagarri case' broke out at the Concertone on May Day. Six young people, the Patagarri have conquered the public in Rome. “We want a beer, let us go,” they say with a smile as they sign autographs. A group that came out of X Factor and that has arrived on one of the most important stages in Italy. “It was a great honor, an incredible adrenaline rush, we would have played for more h…

On the May Day stage in Rome, the group filmed a piece of the Jewish tradition inspired by a popular Ukrainian melody. Fadlun: “Macabre”

The Milanese band had sung "Free Paletsinje, Free Palestine!" using the notes of Haga Nagila, a piece of Jewish tradition

"To those who defined our performance yesterday as macabre we respond that for us macabre is a world in which thousands of children are killed, hospitals bombed, civilians exterminated. A world in which those who ask for peace are accused of creating divisions and generating anti-Semitic hatred." The Patagarri, after shouting yesterday from the Stage of the Concert on May 1st in Rome 'Free Palestine' on the notes of a song of the Jewish traditio…