Disturbed performs during The Sickness 25th Anniversay Tour at The Amerant Bank Arena Featuring: David Draiman, Disturbed Where: Sunrise, Florida, United States When: 18 Apr 2025. Photo: Robert Bell/INSTARimages via Reuters Connect

Disturbed lead singer David Draiman had some choice works for actor John Cusack after the latter criticized him for writing “F–k Hamas” on an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) artillery shell last year.

The “Serendipity” actor, who has been accused of antisemitism in the past, shared on X early Tuesday morning a picture of Draiman writing the expletive for Hamas while visiting IDF soldiers in Israel in June 2024. The Jewish musician – who has been vocally supportive of Israel and the IDF following the deadly Hamas-led terrorist attack in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023 – shared the same image on social media last year.

Cusack reposted a message on X that included the photo and called for the cancellation of Disturbed’s concert on Wednesday in Dublin, Ireland, as part of the heavy metal band’s world tour. The actor wrote in the caption, “Anyone who signs a bomb is pyycotic [sic].”

The “Sound of Silence” singer responded to Cusack’s post by telling the “Must Love Dogs” actor, “You want psychotic? Look in the mirror.”

“It isn’t psychotic to defend oneself from a genocidal death cult, hell bent on slaughtering you,” he explained, referring to the terrorist group Hamas, which openly seeks to destroy Israel. “What’s psychotic, is you defending that genocidal, Jew hating death cult, the way you have for years.”

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The watchdog group StopAntisemitism named Cusack its “Antisemite of the Week” in January 2024 after he repeatedly denied the mass sexual violence inflicted upon Israeli civilians during the Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attacks; claimed Hamas was a charitable organization “funded and supported” by Israel; and claimed the IDF participated in the Oct. 7 massacre. The American actor, writer, and producer has accused Israel of “genocide” in the Gaza Strip and previously called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a “Zionist pig.” He also once said that he looks at the obituaries of Zionists with “great pleasure.”

In June, Cusack wrote on X: “Iran will surely rush to get a nuclear weapon- and they should get one – it’s the only way to deter US and Israel from bombing every country in Middle East.”

Draiman has never been hesitant to call out others who have been critical of Israel and the Jewish people. He has criticized Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters several times for his anti-Israel views and called rapper Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, a “pathetic Jew hater without a soul” for his promotion of Nazi swastikas. Draiman has also spoken in the past about losing friends in the music industry because of his unwavering support for Israel, especially after the Oct. 7 attack, in which Hamas-led terrorists murdered more than 1,200 people and took 251 hostages back to Gaza.