Rage Against the Machine’s Tom Morello has never been one to shy away from speaking his mind. Recently, the guitarist praised the controversial hip-hop trio Kneecap for “speaking truth to power” in regards to the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestine.
Now, Morello has taken to Instagram to share a lengthy statement denouncing the actions of the Israeli government and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
“Anti-semitism is real. Anti-semitism, religious and racial hatred, intolerance and bigotry of ANY kind should ALWAYS be condemned and confronted. One can believe this and also without any contradiction say: STOP KILLING CHILDREN,” he wrote in the caption of his post shared on Monday (Aug. 11th).
“Stop starving children to death. Stop burning children alive in their tents. Stop sniping hungry children in the head who are waiting in line for food. Stop blowing up children in ‘safe zones’. Stop maiming children. Stop orphaning children. Stop funding the killing and maiming and orphaning of children. Stop leaving children to die in incubators. Stop making excuses for killing children. Stop bragging about killing children on social media.”
He continued: “Stop saying that when you kill children, starve children to death, burn children alive in their tents and snipe hungry children in the head while they wait in line for food that it’s someone else’s fault. Stop lying about killing children. Stop persecuting artists for saying ‘stop killing children’. Stop arresting students for saying ‘stop killing children.’ Stop ignoring the passionate voices of thousands of Jewish people in Israel and around the world who are pleading, ‘Stop killing children!’
“Stop pretending that killing tens of thousands of children is making anyone ‘safer.’ Stop thinking that just because you ban books, bully the universities into approved narratives and murder the journalists that people won’t remember you killed the children. Stop giving standing ovations to the unrepentant architect of the killing of children when he gloats before Congress. Stop refusing to hold the killers of children and the funders of the killers of children accountable for their war crimes. Stop being silent about the killing of children. STOP. KILLING. CHILDREN. NOW.”
