NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MAY 21: Regina Spektor performs during The Wall Street Journal's The Future of Everything Festival at Spring Studios on May 21, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by Dominik Bindl/Getty Images)
On Saturday night, singer-songwriter Regina Spektor played at Portland’s Revolution Hall, and a few people in the audience interrupted her set by yelling, “Free Palestine!” Spektor, who is Jewish and who emigrated from the Soviet Union to the US as a kid, is a vocal supporter of Israel amidst its ongoing and horrific campaign of genocide and starvation in Gaza. Over the past few years, she has decried the “propaganda” of anti-genocide protesters and taken public issue with peers like Björk. As a result, she has appeared on the Zionists In Music Instagram account. During that moment of protest on Saturday, Spektor’s show ground to a halt.
