Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong Dons Palestinian Flag in Malaysia

Green Day famously attacked President George W. Bush with its 2004 album “American Idiot.”

Now, the aging rockers are sidling up to the Palestinian cause, and their timing couldn’t be worse.

The trio made hay during the 2000s by attacking President Bush’s Iraq War efforts. The band expanded its scope in the following years, aligning with the progressive cause du jour.

It savaged Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential race, backed President Joe Biden’s 2020 campaign and supported Kamala Harris’ failed attempt to keep Trump out of the White House.

They leveraged the “American Idiot” album’s legacy at every step.

They’ve been conspicuously silent about the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas attack that slaughtered hundreds of innocent Jews and took hundreds more hostage. The band members also didn’t speak out against Hamas’ barbaric attack on the Nova Music festival, according to a good faith Google News search.

U2 and Madonna forcefully condemned that attack. Rocker John Ondrasik of Five for Fighting fame has been vigilant in speaking out against Hamas atrocities from Oct. 7 on.

Green Day finally found its voice by supporting Palestinians following Israel’s furious counter-attack. All the while Hamas terrorists refused to give back hostages that we later learned were severely mistreated.

Several died in captivity.

On Wednesday, the band played in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and someone in the crowd threw a Palestinian flag onto the stage. Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong picked it up and draped it over his body as he played.

It’s hardly the first time the band sided with the Palestinian cause.

In their song “Peacemaker,” from the album “21st Century Breakdown,” Armstrong sings: “Well, call up the Gaza, hey, hey … Well, death to the ones at the end of the serenade.” In November 2024, Green Day was performing at the Corona Capital Festival in Mexico, and during their set Armstrong changed the lyrics of the song “Jesus of Suburbia” to show support for “Palestine.” The original lyrics are “From Anaheim to the Middle East,” but Amstrong instead sang, “From Palestine to the Middle East.”

What’s different now? Timing.

A day after their Malaysian concert, the Hamas government released the bodies of four Israeli hostages, including a four-year-old and a nine-month-old. Israeli sources claim the brothers had been strangled to death by their captors following a forensic exam of their remains.

Hamas officials farcically allege, without evidence, that the boys died from an Israeli attack.

It gets even worse.

Hamas created a ghoulish celebration to coincide with the hostage handover. Palestinians celebrated over the dead bodies as loud music played.

Here’s how the far-Left CNN described the scene:

As in past weeks, Hamas used the handover ceremony as an opportunity for anti-Israel propaganda. But the juxtaposition of four black coffins borne by masked militants rather than living hostages led to widespread condemnation in Israel, whose television networks – unlike in past weeks – did not carry the ceremony live.

Hamas also lied about one of the four bodies in question. The terrorist government sent the wrong corpse back to Israel – the mother of the dead brothers. The error was corrected the following day.

Will Green Day condemn Hamas’ latest atrocities? If history is any indication, the answer is likely no.

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