Thousands of Hungarians gathered at Heroes’ Square in Budapest on Friday for a free concert organised against former Prime Minister Viktor Orban, where artist and activist Gregory G-Ras led the crowd in chanting for a “Free Palestine” pic.twitter.com/9Gd6egG1ll
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I never thought I would hear this from Hungarians one day: “Szabad Palesztinát – Free Palestine.”
The crowd chanted it on the last day of the Orbán era, just before the election. Until now, there had been little visible sign in Hungary of public compassion for the suffering of people in the Middle East. I never imagined I would witness such a large crowd expressing this.
The singer is Hungarian, and he must have been inspired—perhaps knowingly—by the spirit of Sándor Petőfi, the 19th-century poet who was not content with the well-being of a single nation, but dreamed of freedom and equality for the whole world.
And as a reggae singer, he was likely inspired by Bob Marley as well.
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