Blood on the Tracks

A train was spotted in Antwerp, Belgium this week (October 2025) sporting a huge, graffiti artwork based on the now legendary, popular culture motto “Death to the IDF”.

Perhaps the most visceral and widespread expression of humanity’s deep contempt for those committing genocide in Gaza, the motto – a zeitgeist signifier – was coined at the Glastonbury Festival in June 2025 by punk band Bob Vylan, at the height of the demonic, sadistic, bloodthirsty, child-slaughtering, population-starving, inhuman Gaza genocide by the Israeli people.

IDF (Israeli Defence Force) is the preposterous misnomer given to armed Israeli people who appear to suffer from the mass delusion that murdering and dismembering children, then stealing their homes is ok because of their ethnicity. From an early age, the people of Israel are trained and conditioned to believe that they’re fulfilling some kind of perverse Old Testament prophecy if they learn to murder defenceless children from the safety of a Merkiva main battle tank. Israeli kids yearn to play dress-up soldiers, don the body armour and spray bullets at children from their assault rifles like normal kids would play with bubbles. To say there’s a depravity about their daily murder rampages is an understatement. When Israeli people haven’t got a genocide on, they get bored and just go shooting kids and generally monstering Palestinians over in the West Bank. If they can steal someone’s land while they’re at it, it seems to keep them happy for an hour or so. They welcome Jewish people from around the world to fly to Israel as ‘reserves’ and join them in a kind of genocide tourism where they get to murder a few kids then fly back home to New Jersey or Leeds UK and seamlessly slip back into their jobs at universities or law firms.

Such is the Israeli people’s conditioning, depravity and absolute contempt for humanity that they proudly post tik-tok videos of their murder rampages, often playing and joking around with dead kids’ toys or wearing dead women’s underwear over their blood-spattered body armour in the rubble of dead families’ homes with dead kids’ body parts strewn around them.

These are the pathetic, miserable excuses of humanity that fill the ranks of the IDF. One might expect all decent nations would be at war with Israel for this unthinkable genocidal bloodbath they’re engaged in, but the truth is the opposite. Our supposed morally just governments all over Europe and in America have pledged their undying allegiance to this disgusting regime. Governments have outlawed protest against the genocide resulting in mass arrests and widespread police brutality against ordinary people with a conscience.

It’s no surprise then that the roar of “Death to the IDF” erupted from the Glastonbury Festival back in June led by Bob Vylan. The governments may be complicit but the people of the world have had enough of this depraved murderous regime. The motto voices the collective soul of humanity where our governments are silent. “Death to the IDF” speaks to a world free of this criminal gang of monsters and the depraved society that birthed it.

The train-art can be regarded as a touring public artwork to be seen not in the posh galleries frequented by the elite establishment crowd supportive of genocide, but in the cities, towns and villages where ordinary people who actually still have some humanity reside.

In this way, the artwork is embedded in humanity, not separate from it and the graffiti genre lends itself perfectly as a mode which distances itself from the establishment’s indecent position when it comes to the genocidal illegal state of Israel. It screams – you may outlaw and arrest us, but you’ll never kill our humanity!