"I don't want you at my shows"
The rapper said he generally avoids commenting on everything happening in the country, but this issue hits too close to home.
"I don't even know if to call it a trend, this thing of youth doing lynchings on one kid at a time," he said. He explained that the same teenagers appearing in these videos are the ones who come to his performances, stop him on the street, and get excited to meet him.
"Anyone who took part in something like this, anyone who filmed something like this, anyone who laughed when they saw something like this, anyone who stood on the side and made noise and said 'I didn't hit, I only yelled'... I don't want to see you, don't want to photograph with you, don't want you listening to my songs, don't want you coming to my shows," Meir said.
"Don't you have shame?"
He then invoked the October 7th massacre, saying he cannot understand how, after everything the Jewish people went through, there are those capable of behaving this way toward one another.
"We are a nation that a year and a half ago had thousands of terrorists enter and slaughter us and burn us alive just because we're Jews. So you organize a gang of Jews who come at one Jew and all give him beatings together. Does that seem logical to you? Don't you have shame?" he asked.
Despite his harsh words, Meir emphasized he doesn't necessarily think these are bad kids, but rather young people who don't always understand the severity of their actions and sometimes get swept up by their friends. "You're too young and most of you don't understand the magnitude of the sin and you don't understand the magnitude of the trauma you're causing."
He asked them to imagine how they would feel if the person in the videos were a member of their own family. "Think how you would feel seeing your mother in a video like that with 30 people beating her, and tell me if there's anything in the world she could have done that justifies that."
Meir ended the video with a plea to the teenagers to stop being dragged along by others and to think about how they conduct themselves.
"If you feel this applies to you, then change your ways. This is not how we need to behave toward one another. Love you, be good people, do good, improve yourselves, hug those you love in this life, listen to good music, make money, work. Enough, let's be happy," he said.
