An anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian activist disrupted Israeli singer David D’Or’s concert in Warsaw, Poland on Sunday night, throwing red paint on the musician during his performance.
D’or, a renowned classical singer, was performing at a Jewish festival in Warsaw, when a woman carrying a Palestinian flag tried to storm the stage, shouted “Free Palestine,” and threw red paint on the singer.
The woman was quickly apprehended by security, and was removed from the auditorium.
After the concert, D’or posted a clip of the incident on his Instagram page, and said: “In the middle of the prayer, Our Father, our King, when I pray for a good year and peace in the world, I closed my eyes, when suddenly I felt a splash on my face, I opened my eyes to see a strong red color, resembling blood.
D’Or said the paint was “on my clothes, on my face, on the stage and the other musicians,” saying it was as if “the song list was stained with blood.”
“It brought me back to the horrors of October 7,” he added, referencing the deadly massacres of Israelis during Hamas’s 2023 attack on southern Israel, during which terrorists killed some 1,200 people and kidnapped 251 hostages to Gaza, sparking the ongoing war.
Speaking to the Ynet news site after the show, D’or said: “It was very difficult, very sad.”
“The audience, of course, was all scared and I tried to calm them down. I asked them to sing together and we prayed together,” he added.
“The girls in the orchestra were very scared, all their fancy dresses were filled with paint stains that looked like blood,” he said. “It wasn’t easy, it was sad. I hope better days will come.”
The incident comes amid a wave of anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian protests and activism against Israel and Israeli tourists abroad over the summer, including at music and film festivals and tourist destinations around Europe, over Israel’s conduct during the war in Gaza.
According to a poll published by Channel 12 last month, 56 percent of Israelis said that they fear that they will not be able to travel outside of the country due to growing international criticism of Israel over the war in the Gaza Strip.