Sia devoted a efficiency of “Titanium” to survivors of the Nova Music Competition caught up within the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas assault on Israel in the course of the 2024 Anti-Defamation League’s In Live performance In opposition to Hate occasion on Monday night time in Washington, D.C.
Earlier than singing the tune she initially recorded with David Guetta, Sia declared from the stage of the John F. Kennedy Middle for the Performing Arts, “We’ll dance once more,” as Nova Competition survivors Ofir Amir, Danielle Gelbaum, Tomer Meir and Daniel Dvir got here to her facet after the efficiency.
Gelbaum, when first introducing Sia, instructed the Kennedy Middle viewers: “Her music gave me the chance to know that I’ll dance once more, and I’m dancing once more, and tonight we are going to dance once more.”
The ADL occasion additionally noticed Eden Golan, who represented Israel at this 12 months’s Eurovision Music Contest, sing the original version of “October Rain.” Golan carried out a rewritten model of the tune, titled “Hurricane,” throughout Eurovision after the unique lyrics had been flagged for holding political references.
Ben Stiller, who hosted the occasion, known as for hope in battling rising antisemitism. “Tonight, we’re going to battle hate with a wholesome dose of hope. This group and the courageous individuals we’re honoring have all taught us that, even within the darkest instances, there’s gentle,” Stiller urged.
Talking with JewishInsider on the blue carpet earlier than the occasion, Stiller stated instances are “scary” amid rising antisemitism.
“It’s one thing I by no means thought I’d expertise in my life,” Stiller stated. “I grew up fairly sheltered from that in New York Metropolis. Proper now we now have to be optimistic and work towards unifying collectively, reaching out to individuals we disagree with and calling out hate when it occurs.”
The hope over hate message was additionally delivered by music mogul Scooter Braun, who was honored by the ADL for his efforts in bringing the Nova Music Competition Exhibition to U.S. audiences. Braun recalled the 2017 Manchester terrorist incident throughout an Ariana Grande live performance he produced the place 22 individuals had been killed.
“Harmless individuals dying at a music occasion is flawed,” he stated in the course of the ADL occasion. “These Nova survivors have given me the best present, as a result of my complete life, I used to be taught by no means once more, by no means once more. And one thing shifted since Oct. 7, one thing modified after I met these youngsters, as a result of they reside by this mantra, ‘We’ll dance once more.’ So I hope you’ll perceive I’m achieved saying what I’m not going to do. I’m achieved saying the negatives. I need to say many times and many times, we can be sturdy once more. We can be proud once more. We’ll dance many times and once more.”
Blair Underwood, CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer and former RIAA CEO Cary Sherman additionally attended the occasion. Different ADL honorees included Dr. Mehnaz Afridi, Dr. Charles L. Chavis Jr. and Rosette Goldstein, who obtained the Kay Household Award; and Noa Fay, Luda Isakharov and Einav Tsach, who obtained The Levenson Household Defender of Democracy Award.
The primary ADL live performance was held in 1995 to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the tip of the Holocaust.
