Nicolas Jaar: On the Record

Musician Nicolas Jaar used a Coachella stage to accuse Israel of genocide, apartheid, and ethnic cleansing.

On the record

• April 2025 — During Darkside’s Coachella sets said the U.S. keeps “arming and funding… the genocide of the Palestinian people and arming and funding Israel’s system of apartheid and ethnic cleansing.” [NME] [Billboard]
• 2021 & 2025 — A signatory of the 2021 Musicians for Palestine letter and the December 2025 Live Nation letter. [NME]

Where Galil stands

Our opinion: Genocide, apartheid, and ethnic cleansing, all in one festival monologue about the Jewish state. We don’t stand with him.

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