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The activists made declarations of solidarity with Palestine and led the crowd in chants for Palestinian liberation. One chant in particular hurt Tarp's delicate zionist sensibilities, prompting him to tweet his outrage: "From the River To The Sea, Palestine Will Be Free."

Tarp claims to have left the festival grounds in shock shortly after thousands of ordinary people joined the chant, long understood as a call for equality and freedom in all of Palestine. In subsequent statements to state media he made the claim that it was a call for "the extermination of an entire country", seemingly unaware of the dark irony in making such statements in defense of the zionist entity that is committing an ongoing extermination of the country of Palestine.

Tarp had taken a rare trip outside the safety of the political bubble and mingled with the general public. Rather than feeling the warm embrace of the people he claims to speak for, he encountered mass dissent against the ongoing genocide — and it filled him with horror and disgust. In his tweets he inadvertently admitted that roughly 80 percent of the crowd joined the chants, describing them, in his own words, as “lemmings” swept up in the “rabid madness” coming from the stage.

In true form, regime-loyal media promptly turned to Tarp for comment, hoping to turn this into a Danish equivalent of the moral panic against British band Bob Vylan who is being attacked by Zionists for chanting "Death to the IDF" at their performance at the Glastonbury Festival. State media presented Tarp as merely "a festival-goer", and not as a professional regime propagandist, granting him generous space to share his bigoted accusations. Without irony, he claimed to know what the chant means better than the people actually chanting it, spreading zionist disinformation as he insisted the call for equality and freedom in Palestine was actually an exterminationist threat.

Observers familiar with Denmark’s Social Democratic party describe it as fervently Zionist and deeply Islamophobic, a part of the reactionary "anti-woke" wave that has spread from America to the rest of the western world. Tarp's social media history shows him to be a loyal foot soldier of this ideology. In his Twitter feed he is branding New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani as "utterly insane", he scolds the Nordic hermit kingdom's main LGBTQ+ organization for refusing to take part in islamophobic scare campaigns, he rails against other parties voting not to derail an anti-racism plan for public schools with Zionism and he makes so-called jokes asking whether pro-Palestine activists should be "cancelled for cultural appropriation" for wearing keffiyehs.

Despite Tarp’s histrionics, reactions to his tweet were mixed. Although many agreed with his hateful comments, one alleging that Roskilde is now "a Muslim festival celebrating Hamas", others mocked Tarp’s hysteria and called him out for lying about the invented of the Palestinian liberation movement. "The state of Israel and Jewish people were never equated," countered a concertgoer. "If you were there, you’d know."

The festival itself, meanwhile, is standing firm. Rejecting Tarp's demands for censorship, organizers have defended Fontaines D.C., affirming that their stage is a place for artistic freedom and that the performance did not violate any guidelines. Meanwhile, critical reviews of the concert have been overwhelmingly positive, with critics praising the band’s willingness to break the silence and center human lives over spectacle.

The entrenched political elite may continue clutching their pearls and scribbling outraged tweets, but if Roskilde is any indication, a new generation is choosing freedom and solidarity over hate — even if it makes spin doctors shriek into the night.

Sources:

• Irsk band deler vandene med koncert, der forvandlede sig til Palæstina-demo, DR (regime media), July 3rd 2025
• Skaber stor debat: Pro-palæstinensiske kampråb fra scenen i Roskilde , BT (corporate media), July 3rd 2025
• Tweet by Tarp (CW: Racism and celebration of genocide in comments)