Overview

• Part two of Billy Joel: And So It Goes began streaming July 25 on HBO Max and features his direct challenge to the president’s equivocal response to the 2017 Charlottesville rally
• The singer declares “The Nazis are not good people. Period.” to demand an unambiguous rejection of white supremacism
• He explains that wearing a Star of David at a March 2024 Madison Square Garden concert was his way of silently protesting antisemitism and affirming his Jewish identity
• Drawing on his father’s escape from Auschwitz and the rally’s torchlit chants of “Jews will not replace us,” Joel says he could no longer remain apolitical
• Joel’s ex-wife Christie Brinkley and daughter Alexa Ray Joel praised his documentary statements and symbolic gesture on social media