Casablancas on Expansion and Jewish Identity | Music News

Music News Today | 2 Min News | The Daily News Now! · Jul 4, 2026 · 1m

Julian Casablancas, frontman of The Strokes, reignited controversy with a fiery speech at Oxford, diving deeper into his critique of American Zionists and Israeli expansionism. He argued that framing the conflict as “one’s own country being safe” ignores the core issue: land grabs and settlements. Casablancas condemned phrases like “Netanyahu is the problem” as code for supporting supremacy, comparing it to silencing “Black Lives Matter.” He sharply distinguished “green liners” — those accepting borders — from “expansionists” seizing Palestinian homes, aligning himself with the former. This…