Keli HolidayKeli Holiday has taken to social media to address how he has been targeted by what he's described as a "deliberate weaponisation and misrepresentation" of a series of comments he made in 2025.
Writing on social media on Thursday, July 9th, Holiday addressed a video which went viral in September 2025 after an anti-immigration march in Melbourne left at least four people injured.
Holiday's comments were made in a video shared online by his partner, Abbie Chatfield, who brought the musician in to address the public since they "won’t listen to an adult woman because you call me hysterical".
"There's indigenous people that have been hurt after a bunch of fucking Nazi losers ran through a camp," Holiday said. "How the fuck is that trying to 'reclaim Australia'? I mean, you [have] just all got fucking pea brains, tiny cocks and dumb, numb skulls, you fucking idiots.
"Don't procreate, just die, you don't belong here, piss off you racist fucks. You're all losers."
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In the time since the video was posted, Holiday was the subject of widespread criticism online, and most recently, a partnership with Bonds saw various comments left on the company's social media attacking the musician for his statement.
"For some time now I've been targeted by a deliberate weaponisation and misrepresentation of something I said almost a year ago that needs to be clarified," Holiday wrote on social media this week.
"I'm addressing this now because since coming home from tour, people I love have been threatened, harassed and verbally abused in public and it's now become a safety issue not only for me, but for those around me.
"I've seen people claiming that I 'wish death' upon 'anyone who disagrees with me', that I have told 'every day Australians' to 'kill themselves', or have even threatened to harm people," he added. "These are defamatory and entirely untrue claims against me."
As he continued, Holiday explained that a version of the video which has been circulating online has been "edited, recontextualized and is missing the pivotal context" in regard to who it is actually addressing,
He continued:
In reality, the context of my quote was in direct response to a group of people alleged to be neo-Nazis for the unprovoked attack on the Indigenous protest site Camp Sovereignty on August 31 2025. A group that was officially added to the proscribed hate group list by the Australian Government.
This attack included approximately 50 men allegedly storming up a hill, targeting women, throwing them to the ground and striking them in the head, resulting in four people requiring medical attention with two people taken to hospital. These people were also allegedly chanting "white man's land" and "white power" along with misogynistic slurs.
In closing his post, Holiday explained that he was not addressing all Australians, or everyone in attendance at September's March for Australia, or even those who disagreed with his viewpoint, though conceded his point could have been made clearer without the language in question.
"The wording I chose was far from eloquent and reacting in such a manner is not conducive to anything positive," he added. "I take full accountability for that, however, I believe this is critical context as to what and who the comments were in regards to.
"If you're mad at me for being viscerally frustrated, heartbroken and disappointed that in Australia in 2025 there were groups of people reported to be neo-Nazis storming peaceful innocent protest camps and severely harming innocent Australians for no reason, then by all means be mad at me," he concluded.
"I love Australia. I'm all for love (but I do hate neo-Nazis)."
Holiday's post comes just weeks after it was announced he had been denied a visa to re-enter the US during a North American tour due to "due to national security concerns", and the same day that his band, Peking Duk, announced a 12-date national tour.
