Jewish Artist Exposes Plot to Poison, Attack Israelis at Boom Music Festival in Portugal

A Jewish artist revealed to Israel’s Kan news on Monday plans by far-left activists to attack and poison thousands of Israelis attending this year’s music and intercultural Boom Festival set to take place from July 17-24 in Idanha-a-Nova, Portugal.

A woman from Portugal using the pseudonym Sarah said she was added to a WhatsApp group chat titled “Left wing argument” where the plans were discussed. She was included in the chat because of her work as an artist, but the group did not know that she was Jewish, she believes. Sarah shared with Kan screenshots of messages sent in the group chat that included discussions about torching the tents of Israelis attending the Boom Festival and spiking drugs at the biennial event.

“What started off was just silly ideas then started to become plans. And as you can see, it’s truly sinister,” she told Kan. “[There were] plans to defecate on Israelis tents, urinate in their food, set their tents on fire, put bad substances inside other substances that they may take, plans to upend them to make them feel uncomfortable. Plans to attack.”

“Their idea was that they needed to infiltrate the Boom Festival because a lot of Israelis go there after doing their service in the IDF [Israel Defense Forces],” Sarah added. “And they felt that it was unfair that [Israelis] should be included in the Boom [festival].”

One member of the group chat wrote: “They are all pretty much IOF [Israel Occupation Forces] veterans, boys and girls. I was thinking of giving them a taste of their own medicine. Wake them up and let them know that they are getting a humanitarian warning to leave their tents, make sure they are at a safe(ish) distance away, and then torch their tent. I’d let them know that I am the most moral arsonist in the world and then give them the strychnine drop to cheer them up.”

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, strychnine is a highly toxic, crystalline alkaloid that if ingested, can lead to muscle spasms, seizures, and respiratory failure possibly leading to death and brain death within 15 to 30 minutes.

The same group chat member who talked about wanting to give Israelis the poisonous alkaloid also wrote: “Oh c’mon strychnine in their acid is not dismemberment of babies … they are all former or current IOF after all … what’s a little strychnine to people who have torn babies to shreds while wearing their mother’s stolen underwear?”

Another message in the group chat talked about support for the cultural boycott of Israelis, calling it “an excellent tactic of psychological warfare” and that “the entire world needs to adopt this tactic wherever Israelis are found … especially in the ‘culture’ sphere.”

Sarah said members of the group chat also had discussions in group phone calls about attacking Israelis at the Boom Festival and she listened in on those calls. She told Kan she was “absolutely appalled” by what she read and heard as part of the WhatsApp group chat.

“First of all, our nature party scene has always been very inclusive. We become one when we are on the dance floor,” she noted. “So, reading these vile, racist, actually criminal plans to hurt Israeli people, especially after what happened on 10/7 [Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, massacre across southern Israel], was really appalling to me. It’s victim-blaming.”

Sarah said she told festival organizers about the plot to target Israelis at the event, but that “nothing has been done about it.”

“Hence, I scrambled to try and warn the 4,000 Israelis that I know are coming to be on that dance floor. They need to be careful. There is a plan to hurt them,” she said. Sarah added that Boom festival organizers told her they would speak to Portuguese authorities about her concerns. She said she also spoke to police in Portugal but claimed they “just did not take me seriously at all.”

“After what we’ve seen in Washington and Boulder and in France, it’s imperative that this is taken seriously,” she stated.

Sarah recently moved out of Portugal because of “institutionalized antisemitism,” she told Kan, which included being spat on when she wore in public a Star of David and tags calling for the return of the hostages abducted by Hamas-led terrorists from Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.

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