The government has “strongly condemned” chants at Glastonbury Festival from rap punk duo Bob Vylan calling for “death” to the Israeli military and broadcast live on the BBC.
Rapper Bobby Vylan led chants of “free, free Palestine” and “death, death to the IDF [Israel Defense Forces]” during their set, which came just before Belfast rap trio Kneecap.
A BBC spokesperson said some of the comments were “deeply offensive”, adding it had issued a warning on screen about “very strong and discriminatory language”. The set will not be available to rewatch on BBC iPlayer.
Police said they were reviewing videos of comments made by Bob Vylan and Kneecap to decide whether any offences had been committed.
These idiots also chanted “up Hamas, up Hezbollah”. How stupid do you habe to be to publicly support terrorism? This is not helping the Palestinian cause.
Israel is the terrorist
That does not make Hamas any less of an terrorist organization.
Is that case israel and the united states are also terrorists right?
I guess that depends on how you define terrorism. Some definitions require the actors to be individuals or subnational organizations - so the scale of Israel’s actions would make it something else. But other than that: yes.
Why do you ask? I haven’t seen anyone defending Israel’s actions (and the US support of it) in this thread, so I’m not sure how that adds to the discussion.
Any entity who target civilians for a political aim is considering terrorism .
Defending the idf is defending Israel. It’s the occupying force that implement Israel policies in Gaza and the west bank and are committing a genocide
Genocidal zionazis murdering tens of thousands of unarmed men women and children are more what I’d be concerned about affecting the Palestinian cause than artists trying to stand for something they believe in.
Also, Hamas is not terrorism, it’s a symptom of an oppressive terrorist colonial regime wantonly subjucating a people. They’re the equivalent of the rebel resistance in star wars.
I get what you’re trying to say, but Hamas is not just a resistance organization; they’re an oppressive terrorist regime on their own right. If not for Israeli aggression they’d have been overthrown three times over.
Netanyahu actively encouraged the growth of them. What the fuck are you talking about you to weirdo, he loves them because they keep them in power because they’re a convenient enemy.
100% correct. They are an unfortunate but unsurprising symptom of the disgusting occupation of the land that is rightfully Palestine by isntreal.
Thank you, good, sir Or ma’am. the balls of these people to gaslight everybody else on the Internet is fucking amazing
Exactly. That’s what many people don’t realize. Hamas atrocities are themselves a product of Israeli Jewish-supremacist occupation apartheid. There are multiple instances in history where occupation and subjugation has brutalized a population to the point of themselves becoming butchers when given the chance. From Boudicca, to King Phillip’s War, to the late excesses of the Haitian Revolution, to Nat Turner’s rebellion, to the early days of the Greek Revolution, and even Terror periods of the French and Russian Revolutions. These excesses and atrocities are not to be glorified, but they must be understood as really sad outcomes of the pre-existing brutal regime. It’s always chickens coming home to roost, and in fact it’s usually a wonder that the atrocities are not worse.
Hamas committed horrible atrocities on October 7th. Was anyone really surprised they did so however? These were an outcome of decades of brutal occupation.
Hell, I’ll even say something very controversial: Israeli atrocities themselves are the outcome of the extraordinary brutalization of Jews in the decades preceding the founding of Israel. Hitler is laughing in hell. This is his intergenerational evil at work, 80 years after he bit his luger.
100% truth. It’s the same intergenerational trauma causing this, and that this is causing.
Isreal had a unique opportunity to “turn the other cheek” and be a good neighbour, even while Palestine was fighting them, and they instead choose the evil path.
It is a resistance group that have a fair share of terrorist acts like many other resistance groups in other occupied countries. It was created in response of israrl opression during the second intifada
If not for isntreal they wouldn’t exist at all because there wouldn’t be a need to
I mean yes, when did I say otherwise? Israel is at fault for creating this terrible situation, and the people exploiting that situation for their own gain at the expense of Palestinians are also at fault. These two things can be true at the same time.
Hamas leaders has ton of their family killed. Look at the palestinian autority for taking advantage of occupation to their own gains
Are you excusing islamist terrorism, rape and beheadings?
I feel like you’re arguing in bad faith if you’re making a false equivalence like that. We’re not talking about Islamist anything, we’re talking about the genocidal colonial oppression of innocent men women and children by the IOF. they literally ensured premature babies were left to die and decompose in incubators in hospitals in Gaza
Are you excusing jewish terrorism, rape and blowing babies with bombs?
he’s sure trying.
I could cut and paste articles of Israeli terrorism, israeli rape, and israeli murders. Lots more then you could find from the “islamist” side. So thats a pretty weak point of rhetorical attack I’d say, especially since the zionists started this during the Nakba.
Yeah, this shit doesn’t hold water with me when you’ve pressed the people over 1000 years they can terrorize whatever the fuck they want
Will you admit that theres been about 100 years of vicious zionist terrorism? Its well documented.
They never cared for the palestinian cause. It’s just white middle class’ substitute for religious belief. We are the divinely good, they are the divinely bad. Thus devoid of all critical thinking.