Mass Murder of Israelis Planned at Portuguese Music Festival

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Not the mass murder of Israelis that took place in the past, at the Nova Music Festival that was held in Israel on October 7, 2023, but a mass murder planned for the future, at the Boom Music Festival to be held in Portugal this July. Antisemites, encouraged by the hatred that has been heaped on Israel by so much of the world, with so many people both so ill-informed and so malevolent, have apparently been planning to do all kinds of terrible things to the 4,000 Israelis expected to attend this year’s festival. Perhaps the sudden revelation about the planning of that massacre will prevent it, if Portuguese authorities wake up from their stupor, from being attempted.

Robert Spencer wrote about this briefly here, and more on their plans, and how they came to light, can be found here: “Jewish woman reveals plot to poison Israelis at Boom Festival in Portugal – KAN,” by Mathilda Heller, Jerusalem Post, June 10, 2025:

Members in a WhatsApp group for left-wing activists in Portugal were plotting to poison Israelis at the upcoming Boom Festival, Sarah (not her real name) told KAN News on Monday.

They also intended to defecate on the Israelis’ tents and urinate in their food.

Sarah, a Jewish woman who chose to remain anonymous, said that she entered the group chat through her work as an artist. She imagined that the other group members were not aware that she was Jewish.

“Their idea was to infiltrate the Boom Festival (set to take place in July), because a lot of Israelis go there after serving in the IDF. The group felt that it was unfair that [Israelis] should be allowed to be included,” Sarah said.

“At first, the idea was quite a mess, but then they began to organize themselves. What started with just silly ideas then began to take shape as plans. And as you can see, it’s truly sinister,” she continued….

Sarah said that she approached the festival organizers first about what she had heard and seen, but that “nothing has been done about it.”

“This is why I scrambled to try and warn the 4000 Israelis who I know are coming. They need to be careful and know that there is a plan in place to hurt them,” she said.

Sarah also spoke to the police, whom she said “did not take her seriously.”…

Yes, why take threats to murder Israelis seriously? After all, they have it coming, as members of the colonial-settler ethnic-cleansing genocidal state of Israel, that spreads its tentacles across half the globe. They can dish it out, those Zionists — just look what they’ve done killing hundreds of thousands of women and children and babies in Gaza while nobody says a word — but they can’t take it. Oh no, they expect the Portuguese police to protect them. Well, sorry, it’s not our affair. We kicked you out in 1497, and we are not about to welcome you back.

If Israelis are harmed at this music festival, the authorities — both the festival organizers and the police — having been notified in advance by “Sarah” that something terrible is being planned for those thousands of Israeli tourists, then decent people, including many in the American government, should do whatever they can to express their extreme displeasure over those Portuguese organizers of the festival and the police, who were warned about the threat but did nothing. Stop buying Porto, cancel your trip to the Algarve, write to your Congressman about ending Most Favored Nation status for Portugal. Or perhaps send an email to the Embassy of Portugal in Washington now, and mention all those possibilities, if the worst should be allowed to happen.