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| Author | Comment | Andrea
Jan-29-2026, 01:32 GMT
South Africa
 | To Paul Simon:
Paul. My hero of the late 60s to whenever you were to stop making music and poetry. When I was a kid, all I wanted to do was meet you. Have a conversation with you. Sing with you.
I never imagined you'd betray your People. But you have. And for what? For your cause celebre Marwan Bargute who'd butcher you, burn your body, and film the whole thing for the world to see. Just like Bargute's brothers- in-arms did to your brorhers and sisters on October 7th, 2023.
Think you're immune? Think you hold some kind of high ground? Think again. Strange that you, of all artists, would prove the contention that art is amoral. You supply entertainment. That's it, as it turns out. Your words that so moved me for so many years now don't stand for much. The 50 or more years-worth of your music that I have -- on vinyl, CD, MP, on my hard drive, on my phone. Deleted.
I've written to you, Randy Newman and Bob Dylan asking where your voices have been since October 7. At least the sound of your damned silence left the possibility that your souls would speak out one day. Well your soul has. It's the soul of a confused, foolish man. You've broken the silence with your words of support, aid and comfort to an enemy whose raison d'etre is to rid the world of us.
Yes, us. You were born a Jew, you are a Jew, and you'll die a Jew. Like it or not.
Sincerely,
Andrea Eller
Jerusalem
| | | | Bodo
Jan-31-2026, 12:47 GMT
USA - United Staates America
  | Andrea,
What turns this post into a spectacle isn’t your anger—it’s the assumption that anyone here shares your premise.
This is an international fan forum, not a loyalty tribunal. Most readers are here because Paul Simon’s work mattered across borders, cultures, and decades—not because they expect him to outsource his conscience to you. Your insistence that disagreement equals betrayal already places you far outside the audience you think you’re addressing.
The logic collapses early. Expressing concern for Palestinian suffering is not “supporting murder,” and suggesting otherwise isn’t moral seriousness—it’s an argument so crude it defeats itself. When every deviation becomes complicity, words lose meaning. That’s not courage; it’s rhetorical inflation.
Invoking Simon’s Jewishness as something he “can’t escape” is especially revealing. You don’t defend identity there—you weaponize it. Policing what a Jew is allowed to think or say while claiming moral high ground is a contradiction most readers will spot immediately.
Deleting decades of music doesn’t prove conviction. It proves how fragile your relationship to the art always was. The moment it stopped mirroring your politics, it became disposable. That doesn’t expose art as “amoral”; it exposes how conditional your admiration was.
And finally: writing open letters to famous artists and announcing deletions doesn’t apply pressure, start dialogue, or change outcomes. It only signals isolation—someone speaking loudly, convinced they represent “us,” when they clearly don’t.
You’re free to feel betrayed. But this post doesn’t indict Paul Simon. It just makes your claim—and its reach—look irrelevant. | | | 1  Scaaty
| Matthias
Jan-31-2026, 18:10 GMT
Netherlands
 | Thank you for your words, Bodo. What's happening in the Middle East right now is a terrible tragedy, and I'm avoiding taking sides as much as possible, as if it were a football match. I sincerely hope there's a way to unite the open-minded and peace-loving people on both sides.
Paul Simon himself always tried to tear down borders rather than build them. | | | 1 Scaaty
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