Sam Fender brought activists including Greta Thunberg onstage during his headlining set on the second day of the Syd For Solen festival at Denmark’s Valbyparken, joining him for the finale, ‘Hypersonic Missiles’.
Thunberg, UNICEF ambassador Selma de Montgomery, Roba Al-Sharkawi, and others led several pro-Palestine chants while holding Palestinian flags before Fender launched into the 2019 track, which includes the lyric, “I am so blissfully unaware of everything/ Kids in Gaza are bombed and I’m just out of it.”
“The Danish government is guilty of the suffering that is escalating day by day in Gaza and in the rest of Palestine,” Selma de Montgomery said, according to Danish publication Gaffa. “They are guilty when they repeatedly make the devastating and deeply radical choices of not putting an end to the Danish arms trade with Israel.”
Watch footage of the moment below.
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