Disturbing of Pro-Palestine activists at the opening of the Salzburg Festival

The activists stormed onto the stage, others unrolled transparent on the gallery with inscriptions such as “stops the genocide” and “Free Gaza Now”.

Babler reacted: “Art as a real debate, Festival as a place for real debates – and that should take a critical debate together as a real debate and at the same time negotiate authorized criticism in a suitable framework.”

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This year’s speaker, the Polish-American historian Anne Applebaum, also reacted to the interference campaign. She suffers from the pictures of the children starving in the Gaza Strip: “Israel must comply with humanitarian international law.”

Van der Bellen: “Situation in Gaza is devastating”

And van der Bellen also spoke out the protest: he was a friend of Israel, that does not mean that every measure of the Israeli government is doing. “The situation in Gaza is devastating and in no way to justify humanitarian. But please do not forget October 2023, the worst pogrom of post -war.” This is not a justification for what happens in Gaza, “but please remember”.

“The Salzburg Festival must not become a place of repression,” it said in a broadcast of the activists. “You have to take the much -quoted heritage of your founders seriously – and take a position, for an immediate ceasefire and an end to the genocide. That is why we are now making a sign for Palestine at the ceremony of the Salzburg Festival.”

According to initial information, the activists with fake employee ID cards should have come to the rocky school, the “Salzburger Nachrichten” report. Instead of “Salzburg Festival”, the words “Salzburger Festicens” are said to have been standing on the identification brands.

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