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.
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Who removed this? Death to the IDF is a call for defense, not a call for violence. Death to the IDF. The IDF is an organization. Death to that doesn’t have to mean violence. If the Israeli government would disband the IDF that would be a death of the IDF.
But let me be clear, soldiers committing genocide should be stopped by all means possible. Death to the IDF and the soldiers enacting genocide.
They want palestinian to not have right to selfdefence while claiming to oppose genocide, so weird
Lemmy world is thoroughly subverted by state actors.
I had an account there and left because my registration e-mail address for that account was leaked to Israel and I started getting e-mails in my native language from a Tel-Aviv base entity inviting me to attend one of their “Get to know Israel” online courses.
Not even a Moderator has access to the database with the user’s e-mails, only a server Administrator.
The use of “moderation” in trying to shape perceptions in any large Lemmy forums hosted in Lemmy.world is to be expected.
Interesting. Maybe you could share more info regarding this?
Do you have proof of this? Did you have a unique email used for Lemmy world? Signed email headers please
Wonder what happened here
I said death to the idf
I was gonna joke world would remove it but didn’t think they actually would