Ozzy Osbourne - Pro-Israeli Propagandist

 

  Ozzy Osbourne

Pro-Israeli Propagandist

By Kieran Beville 

While tens of thousands of Palestinians were being slaughtered in Gaza by Israeli forces—entire families erased, hospitals bombed, and children buried beneath rubble—rock legend Ozzy Osbourne lent his name to a campaign to defend Israel’s cultural reputation. In doing so, he positioned himself not as a bystander to genocide, but as an enabler of the machinery that sanitized it.

The former Black Sabbath front-man has, for decades, cultivated an image of anarchic rebellion. Yet in October 2024, amid the worst mass killing of Palestinians in modern history, Osbourne aligned himself with Creative Community for Peace (CCFP), a pro-Israel lobbying organisation disguised as a benign arts collective. He signed an open letter denouncing cultural boycotts of Israel, parroting the Israeli state’s narrative of victimhood, and ignoring the unspeakable carnage unfolding in Gaza.

His support came not in a vacuum, but in a moment of global reckoning—when leading human rights organisations, UN experts, and scholars of genocide were naming Israel’s actions for what they were: war crimes, collective punishment, and in many accounts, genocide. Yet Ozzy Osbourne chose to speak—not for the victims—but for the occupier. 

When Silence Is Not Neutral

In October 2024, more than 1,000 entertainment figures, including Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne, signed a public statement organised by Creative Community for Peace, attacking artists who called for a cultural boycott of Israel. The letter condemned the boycotts as “illiberal and dangerous,” praised Israeli creativity, and claimed to stand for “freedom of expression.” Nowhere did it acknowledge the staggering death toll in Gaza. Nowhere did it mention the carpet bombing of refugee camps, the starvation of civilians, or the flattening of entire neighbourhoods by U.S.-supplied weapons.

Instead, the letter repeated the claim that Israel was enduring “the greatest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust”—a calculated rhetorical inversion that obscured Israel’s overwhelming military dominance and the asymmetric scale of destruction it was inflicting on Palestinian lives.

By signing this document, Osbourne made a political choice. He chose to stand with a nation committing genocide and to do so proudly, publicly, and with zero regard for the victims.

Creative Community for Peace: Propaganda in Performance

To understand the weight of Osbourne’s signature, one must examine the nature of the group he endorsed. Creative Community for Peace (CCFP) bills itself as an “apolitical” organisation that simply supports artistic freedom. In reality, it is a front for the Israeli lobby, sharing infrastructure, leadership, and funding sources with StandWithUs, one of the most hard-line pro-Israel advocacy groups operating in the West.

Both CCFP and StandWithUs fall under the umbrella of the Israel Emergency Alliance, a non-profit agency with deep financial and ideological ties to the Israeli government and its propaganda arms. This is not speculation—it is documented, traceable, and deliberate.

CCFP was founded not to protect free expression, but to combat the global movement for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS), which seeks to hold Israel accountable for its violations of international law. CCFP's job is to intercept artists, pressure them to perform in Israel, shield the state from public criticism, and whitewash apartheid through music, film, and celebrity influence.

By participating in a CCFP campaign during an active genocide, Ozzy Osbourne didn't just take a side—he became a public relations tool for a state committing atrocity.

Gaza Was Burning

When Osbourne signed the CCFP letter, the evidence of genocide was not hidden or speculative. It was broadcast daily.

• Hospitals were bombed.
• Journalists were targeted and killed in record numbers—over 140 by mid-2025.
• Entire families—multiple generations—were wiped out in a single airstrike.

·        Food, water, fuel, and medicine were blockaded, weaponising starvation against civilians.

International law experts from South Africa to Ireland, from Columbia Law School to the United Nations, were calling Israel’s actions genocidal in intent and effect. Yet Ozzy Osbourne’s only public act during this period was to protect Israel’s cultural image.

Not Just Silence—Active Alignment

This is not the case of a celebrity being apolitical or staying out of the fray. Osbourne made himself part of the Israeli narrative, working to delegitimise the cultural boycott that seeks justice for Palestinians.

Worse still, he and Sharon Osbourne doubled down in 2025, signing yet another CCFP-driven letter demanding an investigation into the BBC’s so-called “bias” against Israel—this, after the BBC aired content sympathetic to Palestinian civilians. Sharon took to social media to call for Irish rappers Kneecap to be deported from the United States after they condemned Israel’s genocidal campaign at Coachella. Her message? That artists speaking out for Palestinian lives should be silenced and punished. These are not accidental alignments. They are consistent, deliberate, and dangerous.

A Pattern of Endorsement

In the context of 2024–2025, when Israel’s actions in Gaza are being condemned by the International Court of Justice, Osbourne’s choice to align with a propaganda organisation like CCFP can no longer be explained as neutrality. It is endorsement. And that endorsement came during the bloodiest period in Palestinian history since 1948.

The Cultural Front of Genocide

In any genocide, there is a military front and a propaganda front. Osbourne, knowingly or not, served on the latter. While Palestinians starved and bled under siege, Israeli officials relied on artists like Ozzy to keep up appearances—to show the world that Israel remained “normal,” creative, enlightened, and civilised. This is the precise role that CCFP plays: to provide a smokescreen of culture while ethnic cleansing continues behind it.

Make no mistake: culture is not neutral during genocide. Culture is part of the battlefield. And Osbourne stood on the wrong side.

A Legacy Stained

For decades, Ozzy Osbourne stood as a symbol of rebellion, outsider defiance, and nonconformity. But when faced with the most pressing moral question of his era—Will you stand with the victims of genocide or their executioners?—he chose the latter.

By defending Israel’s cultural institutions, attacking those who speak for Palestinian freedom, and collaborating with a pro-Israel lobby embedded in the entertainment industry, Osbourne made himself complicit in whitewashing mass murder.

There is no room for ambiguity here. Signing a letter that praises Israeli creativity while Gaza lies in ruins is not “apolitical.” It is propaganda.

The Blood on the Pen

History will not remember the euphemisms. It will not remember the polite, professional language of “dialogue” and “cultural exchange” promoted by lobby groups like CCFP. It will remember that while 40,000+ Palestinians were bombed and starved, public figures in the West chose to defend the image of the perpetrators.

Ozzy Osbourne—by his own hand—chose to be one of them. And no amount of heavy metal theatrics can mask the reality of the blood on that signature.