Olivia Rodrigo speaks up in support of Palestine: “Horrific and completely unacceptable”
Singer-songwriter Olivia Rodrigo has spoken up on social media in support of Palestine, describing the situation as “horrific and completely unacceptable”.
Taking to her Instagram story, the ‘Drivers Licence’ singer expressed her solidarity with the people of Palestine. She began her statement, “There are no words to describe the heartbreak I feel witnessing the devastation that is being inflicted upon innocent people in Palestine.”
She continued, “Mothers, fathers, and children in Gaza are starving, dehydrated and being denied access to basic medical care and humanitarian aid. There is no child in Israel, Palestine, or anywhere in the world who deserves to suffer through what we’re seeing these children have to endure.”
The star then described the situation as “horrific and completely unacceptable,” adding, “to give up on them is to give up on her shared humanity.”
Rodrigo then explained that she has set up a donation link for Unicef to “help support the victims of this horrifying situation,” encouraging her fans to “do the same if you have the means.”
Many other musicians have been doing the same; recently, Rodrigo covered a Fontaines DC song at her concert in Dublin. The Irish rockers have been displaying pro-Palestine messages at all of their live shows recently. At Roskilde Festival in Denmark, the band welcomed a pro-Palestine activist group to the stage in order to conduct chants in both English and Arabic as part of a powerful message to festivalgoers.
The ‘Get Him Back’ singer recently headlined Glastonbury. Far Out‘s Lucy Harbron, who was at Worthy Farm watching the display, gave top marks to the performance: “Rodrigo has the infectiousness of a pure popstar. That’s the Disney kid training that comes out in how naturally she plays to the camera and draws the spanning crowd into the emotion of each song, leading to some of the festival’s biggest and most heartfelt sing-alongs during ‘Vampire’ and ‘Drivers License’. But she’s most interesting in the moments that splinter off from the bubblegum, bratty, princess energy that those initial critiques would rather never touch the Pyramid Stage.”
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