- Singer-songwriter Regina Spektor's concert in Portland, Maine, was interrupted by pro-Palestine protesters on Saturday.
- Spektor, who is Jewish and emigrated from the Soviet Union to the US as a child, confronted the protesters, stating her show was “not the place for that conversation” and that they were “just yelling at a Jew”.
- She encouraged those disrupting the performance to leave, with some audience members subsequently departing the venue.
- Spektor referenced her family's history of escaping persecution, noting she only speaks English because they fled a country where Jews were “othered”.
- Spektor, 45, has voiced her support of Israel in the past, including two days after Hamas’s 7 October 2023 attack at Nova Music Festival.
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