Drew Renaud

Last night I was told I am no longer welcome to film today's Trapped Under Ice/Youth of Today show in DC because of my public objection to the zionist entity's livestreamed genocide in Palestine. When Jinx Proof Tattoos reached out to me back in April about filming, it was out of respect for the way I have deliberately leveraged this platform for 18 years, especially the advocacy for Palestinian armed resistance and excoriation of zionism in all its forms. This week, zionists flooded Jinx Proof and other co-promoters with complaints about my involvement in the show, specifically citing my stance on this genocide and how my "presence was creating anxiety" for some of the co-promoters. Jinx Proof rescinded their invite at 11pm last night as I was working on pre-production tasks for the show. Having filmed Trapped Under Ice’s benefit for Jinx Proof 16 years ago, and having gotten my first tattoo at their shop, it is shameful they and the other promoters have decided the discomfort of those enacting, championing and excusing this wanton mass murder is given primacy above all else. This is not the first hardcore show/promoter/band/festival to cut me off this year nor am I the first to be canceled to assuage zionist "feelings." Do the math. As we watch starving Palestinian infants being sniped and entire families in Gaza decapitated in 4K by Jewish soldiers with American munitions, who also carve Jewish symbols on the bodies of Palestinian hostages while sodomizing them with dogs, and as synagogues in America host illegal land sales of ethnically cleansed Palestinian land, look at the bands and labels and podcasts with platforms in your scene who won't take a stand or can't even be bothered to lift a finger to reshare a mutual aid link, and ask yourself why. Ask yourself why a music community that has a strong history of rooting out Nazi/white power skinheads from the scene in the 80s and 90s and fellates itself on bedtime stories about that era has had so little to offer as we've watched Gaza transform into an extermination camp with a live feed. I will never regret standing for defenseless children being butchered daily. Whatever is taken from me will never compare to the immeasurable loss Palestinians have dealt with from this vile ethnostate. Your scene is infested with zionists and this scene's collective generational cowardice runs cover for them. I'm out. Donate to @sameerproject (linktr.ee/thesameerproject) and Mohammads Mission (venmo.com/u/MohammedsMission) Fuck israel. Turn every IOF soldier into a bag of fertilizer. And as the Lebanese proverb goes: May Palestine and The Levant knock on the door of liberation with the skull of zionism.