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.
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.
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.
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
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