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Home The Venue, cancel Infected Mushroom performance
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Dear management of Home The Venue,
I am writing to urge you to cancel the Infected Mushroom performance scheduled for 24 October 2025 at Home The Venue.
On 16 September 2025, the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry concluded that "the State of Israel bears responsibility for the failure to prevent genocide, the commission of genocide, and the failure to punish genocide", finding "genocidal acts were committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, Palestinians in the Gaza Strip as a group". As of 8 October 2025, at least 67,183 Palestinians have been killed – including 20,179 children – and 169,841 injured, with tens of thousands more presumed dead under rubble. Leaked Israeli cabinet transcripts from March 2025 revealed Netanyahu chose deliberate starvation policy over a hostage deal, cutting off all aid to Gaza to "force Hamas to surrender".
On 22 August 2025, the IPC officially confirmed Famine in Gaza.
The UN Commission joins dozens of UN Special Rapporteurs and experts, the International Association of Genocide Scholars, Amnesty International, Médecins Sans Frontières, and Israeli human rights organisation B'Tselem in determining that Israel is committing genocide.
Byron Bay's Beach Hotel has now joined Adelaide's UniBar and Cairns' AJ Hackett SkyPark in cancelling the band's performances in recent weeks following community outrage, recognising they cannot platform artists complicit in genocide.
Three Australian venues have cancelled.
Home The Venue now faces a choice: cancel this performance, or become complicit in normalising genocide – and increasingly isolated – by hosting artists who fundraise to support the Israeli military as it commits genocide, who erase Palestine from maps, who'd rather withdraw from a festival than oppose racism and oppression, who call themselves "diplomats for Israel" who "support Israel whenever we can", and who continue that support while Israel deliberately starves children to death.
I respectfully urge you to cancel this performance.
I am writing to urge you to cancel the Infected Mushroom performance scheduled for 24 October 2025 at Home The Venue.
On 16 September 2025, the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry concluded that "the State of Israel bears responsibility for the failure to prevent genocide, the commission of genocide, and the failure to punish genocide", finding "genocidal acts were committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, Palestinians in the Gaza Strip as a group". As of 8 October 2025, at least 67,183 Palestinians have been killed – including 20,179 children – and 169,841 injured, with tens of thousands more presumed dead under rubble. Leaked Israeli cabinet transcripts from March 2025 revealed Netanyahu chose deliberate starvation policy over a hostage deal, cutting off all aid to Gaza to "force Hamas to surrender".
On 22 August 2025, the IPC officially confirmed Famine in Gaza.
The UN Commission joins dozens of UN Special Rapporteurs and experts, the International Association of Genocide Scholars, Amnesty International, Médecins Sans Frontières, and Israeli human rights organisation B'Tselem in determining that Israel is committing genocide.
Byron Bay's Beach Hotel has now joined Adelaide's UniBar and Cairns' AJ Hackett SkyPark in cancelling the band's performances in recent weeks following community outrage, recognising they cannot platform artists complicit in genocide.
Three Australian venues have cancelled.
Home The Venue now faces a choice: cancel this performance, or become complicit in normalising genocide – and increasingly isolated – by hosting artists who fundraise to support the Israeli military as it commits genocide, who erase Palestine from maps, who'd rather withdraw from a festival than oppose racism and oppression, who call themselves "diplomats for Israel" who "support Israel whenever we can", and who continue that support while Israel deliberately starves children to death.
I respectfully urge you to cancel this performance.
Why is this important?
Infected Mushroom are not merely Israeli artists. They have actively supported the genocide.
In November 2023, Infected Mushroom helped fundraise for the Tel Aviv Foundation and the Tribe of Nova foundation. While these organisations present as supporting festival survivors, the Tribe of Nova's co-founder Nimrod Arnin established "Cobalt Complex, an autonomous OSINT & civilian web intelligence operations center" the day after 7 October 2023 to "support Israel's intelligence apparatus". Within four months, this intelligence centre was integrated directly into Israeli military intelligence conducting operations in Gaza. By fundraising for these organisations, Infected Mushroom materially supported Israel's military apparatus while it committed genocide.
In July 2025, Earth Frequency Festival in Queensland became the first Australian festival to implement an "ethical artist policy" requiring artists to pledge support for First Nations sovereignty and opposition to "racism and oppression – including antisemitism, Islamophobia, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, and other forms of hate". Infected Mushroom refused to sign, claiming the festival had become "unnecessarily politicised", and withdrew entirely – exposing where they truly stand.
The band have long positioned themselves as active promoters of Israel. In a 2012 interview, band member Amit Duvdevani stated: "We're definitely diplomats for Israel. Most of our audience isn't Israeli, and we support Israel whenever we can." During the May 2021 Israeli assault on Gaza, they posted "We stand with Israel, Our motherland" on Facebook. That support continued through the current genocide: they released "Dance Forever" (Tirkod LaNezach) in October 2023 with cover art and videos depicting Palestinian territory filled entirely with the Israeli flag, and have performed multiple times at Kfar Hanokdim in the Negev, a region where the UN documented that Israeli policy "seeks to combat what the state perceives as the demographic threat posed by the Bedouin population by seizing their lands".
In November 2023, Infected Mushroom helped fundraise for the Tel Aviv Foundation and the Tribe of Nova foundation. While these organisations present as supporting festival survivors, the Tribe of Nova's co-founder Nimrod Arnin established "Cobalt Complex, an autonomous OSINT & civilian web intelligence operations center" the day after 7 October 2023 to "support Israel's intelligence apparatus". Within four months, this intelligence centre was integrated directly into Israeli military intelligence conducting operations in Gaza. By fundraising for these organisations, Infected Mushroom materially supported Israel's military apparatus while it committed genocide.
In July 2025, Earth Frequency Festival in Queensland became the first Australian festival to implement an "ethical artist policy" requiring artists to pledge support for First Nations sovereignty and opposition to "racism and oppression – including antisemitism, Islamophobia, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, and other forms of hate". Infected Mushroom refused to sign, claiming the festival had become "unnecessarily politicised", and withdrew entirely – exposing where they truly stand.
The band have long positioned themselves as active promoters of Israel. In a 2012 interview, band member Amit Duvdevani stated: "We're definitely diplomats for Israel. Most of our audience isn't Israeli, and we support Israel whenever we can." During the May 2021 Israeli assault on Gaza, they posted "We stand with Israel, Our motherland" on Facebook. That support continued through the current genocide: they released "Dance Forever" (Tirkod LaNezach) in October 2023 with cover art and videos depicting Palestinian territory filled entirely with the Israeli flag, and have performed multiple times at Kfar Hanokdim in the Negev, a region where the UN documented that Israeli policy "seeks to combat what the state perceives as the demographic threat posed by the Bedouin population by seizing their lands".