“These warmongering murderers are using our music without our consent." Franz Ferdinand frontman Alex Kapranos has criticised the IDF for using their hit song 'Take Me Out' in a propaganda video praising deadly airstrikes in Iran.
The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) have taken a page from Donald Trump’s book by using a band’s song without their prior authorisation for a propaganda video.
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The IDF have used Franz Ferdinand’s 2004 hit song ‘Take Me Out’ in a new video, with the song playing over footage of fighter planes and ground explosions – while an Israeli soldier praises their deadly airstrikes.
The IDF have labelled the post: “Operation Roaring Lion – this is how it’s done.”
Franz Ferdinand’s frontman Alex Kapranos has responded to the video, posting on his Instagram Stories: “These warmongering murderers are using our music without our consent. This makes us both nauseous and furious. Kind of typical though, isn’t it? To strut up and take what isn’t theirs with a vile arrogance…”
Recently, one of the writers of ‘La Macarena’ has spoken out against the unauthorised use of the song in a White House social media video showing bombings in Operation Epic Fury in Iran.
Antonio Romero Monge, author of the legendary song and one of the members of the duo Los del Río, said he felt "profound discomfort" after the video went viral.
On 28 February, Israel and the US launched joint airstrikes across Iran, killing the country’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and targeting hundreds of military sites, and a girl’s school.
There have been calls for an independent investigation into the attack on the school which killed 165 young pupils, with United Nations experts denouncing the deadly bombing as “a grave assault on children”.
In a statement last Friday, a group of UN experts said girls between the ages of seven and 12 were the main victims of the attack on the primary school in Minab on the first day of the United States and Israel’s war against Iran.
“An attack on a functioning school during class hours raises the most serious concerns under international law and must be urgently, independently, and effectively investigated, with accountability for any violations,” they said. “There is no excuse for killing girls in a classroom.”
Rights advocates have pointed to the Minab school attack as evidence of potential war crimes being committed by Israel and the US in a war that legal experts say was launched in violation of the UN Charter.
