During their performance at Glastonbury, one of the rap duo Bob Vylan shouted, “Free, free Palestine” and “Death, death to the IDF”. Many in the crowd joined in.
Israel is not being picked on, or singled out, as is alleged by some Zionists. At many festivals, musicians and speakers have condemned Syria, Iran and Saudi Arabia. I have heard some of this myself.
I now invite the embassy to condemn the inflammatory and hateful rhetoric that comes out of their nation and embassy.
Sir Keir Starmer quickly condemned Bob Vylan. The Daily Telegraph wants the rappers to be punished like Lucy Connolly, who incited violence towards asylum seekers and migrants during last year’s riots.
Witness the double standards. Some right-wingers are manic free speech advocates, but only for those who condemn “the woke” and the left. If we, the woke and lefties, speak freely and take on the right, its adherents revile us as “unpatriotic” enemies within.
square IAN BIRRELL Bob Vylan and Kneecap have exposed a disturbing truth about our democracy
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I am old, but I’ve spoken at many of them. This year I will be at Wilderness in Oxfordshire.
Police are now examining the Bob Vylan footage. The BBC is buckling. This will have a chilling effect, but only briefly. Because no authorities have ever been able to stop young people from saying what they think and expressing their emotions.
My final point: politics cannot be excised from culture. During apartheid, some music stars like The Beach Boys, Elton John, Cher and Status Quo played in South Africa during the cultural boycott, called for by Nelson Mandela’s ANC. The Beatles and Rolling Stones stayed away; Stevie Wonder released “It’s Wrong (Apartheid)” and was arrested during an anti-apartheid protest in the US.
Glastonbury is too big, too important, too popular to submit to any mean, right-wing agenda. Hallelujah.
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