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.
tomorrow’s headlines: bbc bars publication of details of cancer treatment.
such information, they say, is deeply offensive to the horrendous disease regardless of how many young, innocent victims it claims.
80k dead and 130k injured, starvation, displacement, murdered by settlers.
But a chant is “deeply offensive”. Take your fucking offense, fold it until it’s all sharp corners and shove it up your ass, BBC.
and being a nazi isn’t.
BBC radio14: all IDF all the time
Up next, with your host, MCBiBi, the soothing sounds of 80,000 dead kids, children burnt alive, exploding under million dollar missiles, and everyone’s favourite summer hit, already starving to death and being shot in the head in an ambushed food supply delivery.
Ah, good old New Labour, siding with the modern day Nazis committing their very own Holocaust in Gaza.
The UK is almost as fucked up as the US.
(Though, judging by the march of 600k people against the Genocide, most Brits are not, and it’s the power and money elites that, as usual, can’t stop themselves from loving the most violent Fascism and Fascists same as when a young princess Elizabeth was being taught by her uncle and then King how to do a Nazi salute - the whole ubermenschen vs untermenshen view of the World seems to have massive appeal amongst British elites).
Far more. Starmer is a ponce and a WEF puppet.
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Israel is a fascist apartheid state that is currently carrying out ethnic cleansing. I think it’s rather fitting.
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Sorry no. You can’t be an apartheid state and call yourself a democracy. That’s not how words work.
Sure, there is democracy in Israel, but it is more similar to the one that existed among whites in apartheid South Africa than it is to the democracy that currently exists in the United Kingdom or France.
UNICEF has reported more than 50,000 children have been killed or injured in Gaza. At what number do you become comfortable with the comparison? 1 million? 2 million?
In terms of being accurate with our history, dont forget that 17 million people died in those camps, not just 6 million jewish people. In the movies its always solely jewish people being murdered. Russian citizens, soldier, catholics, gypsies, gays, disabled. we never talk about that extra 11 million dead, and each of those lives was as precious as your own life, or any other humans life. The takeaway from that should be that no genocide will ever be allowed again, of any race or any people. That obviously includes Palestinians and Muslims.
What do you think datadroplet, do you agree?
edit: and of course, datadroplet declines to comment about that. Seems like denial of genocide to me which I believe is against lemmys rules.
Don’t forget the millions of Poles
Dang. Good call, yes.
Israel is a democracy with a far-right government,
IOW - people actually fucking voted for this. That’s even worse, since that means that the general populace shares greater culpability.
It’s not anti-Semitic to simply state reality.
If criticizing Israel for committing a genocide and maintaining an apartheid state is anti-Semitic then I guess you consider genocide and racism Jewish tenets
Comparing Israel to Nazi-Germany is antisemitic
I no longer subscribe to people telling me what is and what is not antisemitic. I’ll use my own brain for that, thanks.
We’ve seen too much abuse and restriction of language and crybullying from zionists to let that language be defined by you lot anymore. Hey did you see this one? The very word “Palestine” is itself a “genocide” against the zionists.
https://www.jns.org/the-word-palestine-is-genocide/
And heres one of Netenyahu calling IDF soldiers antisemitic who talk about their atrocities. I guess its “semitic” to keep crimes secret? Is that what you personally require to keep that “antisemitic” accusation from being thrown out?
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2025/06/28/netanyahu-says-its-antisemitic-for-israeli-soldiers-to-describe-their-own-atrocities/I think the fact that you zionists wrung the holocaust for all the marketing value it was worth in order to commit your own gencocide on innocents is disgusting and wildly criminal. You belong in prison.
If this was the 40s, that person would have def be defending the nazis
Comparisons don’t need to be 100% equivalent. Nazism was about the supremacy of the pseudo race called Aryan, zionism is about jewish supremacy
The nazis was doing mass shooting, the idf do mass shooting and mass bombing. Both the nazis and the idf are starving people. The Nazis used gas chambers, the idf is shooting at people seeking aids with the new terrorist organization claiming to be an aid organization Just because holocaust killed a lot more people doesn’t mean we can’t compare it with the genocide is gaza.
You make the antisemitism worse by using it for any criticism of Israel. The fact that you call resistance group terrorism terrorism but say nothing about Israel terrorism being a lot more brutal for 77 years show that you are not neutral
Fun little tidbit to tighten your trolling knickers: The finance minister of Israel said they intend to “entirely destroy” Gaza. They are doing this by raining fire upon it, from the White Phosphorus attacks going years before October 7th, to bombing hospitals and schools, and burning aid convoys and covering the ashes with sand so they don’t have to look at their crimes.
Did you know that we have a word in the English language (and most others with Greek roots) that means, literally, “to entirely destroy by fire”?
That’s right, the word is fucking “Holocaust”.
This is satire, right?
Lol I can’t take you seriously. Sorry but when Israel is literally doing nazi shit you can’t claim their critics are antisemitic for calling them out for doing nazi shit. Get real.
True that, Israel has been brutalizing Palestinians for decades, they surpassed the teacher by far.
Only a rabid racist would - through claiming that anything critical said about that nation is anti-semitism - imply that a nation station state whose actions approach those of the Nazis in their depravity represents all the Jewish People.
It’s hard to be more anti-semite than conflation a nation mass murdering children with the Jewish People as a whole.
If politicians won’t represent the public you can still count on artists
Just chiming in with some lyrics from the great musician, Tim Minchin
And if you look into your motherfucking heart and tell me true
If this motherfucking stupid fucking song offended you
With its filthy fucking language and its fucking disrespect
If it made you feel angry, go ahead and write a letter
But if you find me more offensive than the fucking possibility
The pope protected priests when they were getting fucking fiddlyThe IDF shot civilians when they were getting hungryThen listen to me, motherfucker, this here is a fact:
You are just as morally misguided as that motherfucking
Power-hungry, self-aggrandised bigot in the
stupid fucking hatIsraeli governmentFuck the IDF, and fuck every single piece of shit making excuses for murdering civilians for the unholy crime of being born somewhere.
This is the energy I like to see.
Fuck everybody who goes along with, denies, or minimizes terrorism and genocide, no matter who they are.
Please show me where the UK Government condemned “death to the Arabs” chants from Israelis.
The British Government considers being Arab as synonymous with being a terrorist. Not, incidentally, any differently than how Israelis see them.
Of course, the Brits were a colonial power that spent centuries quelling domestic revolts in order to extract natural resources and exploiting cheap labor. Also, not that different from their Israeli peers.
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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.
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.
Do you have proof of this? Did you have a unique email used for Lemmy world? Signed email headers please
Sure, if you give me a minute I’m just gonna dox myself to satisfy you, random Internet stranger.
Interesting. Maybe you could share more info regarding this?
They want palestinian to not have right to selfdefence while claiming to oppose genocide, so weird
Wonder what happened here
I said death to the idf
Any negative statements toward Isreal are considered antisemitism by the right. What a joke
The right, who are outright Nazis claiming to be against “anti-semitism” is such a fucking ludicrous joke.
Because Israel validates their ethnostate ideas.
If i could invent a time machine and send them to a wwii internment camps I would. That way they could see what real antisemitism looks like. Not this scapegoat bs they are doing today
Death! Death to the IDF!! 🎶
May this chant be inscribed upon all our hearts. 💕
UK and US thought police on patrol. Bought and owned by the rich fatcats to promote their personal religious agenda using the state monopoly of the use of force on protestors not doing any harm to anyone. Disgusting.
💀💀2IDF
FUCK THE ISRAELI DEFENSE FORCE
IDF are a bunch of genocidal terrorist fascist fucks
Of course, everybody knows that “free, free Palestine” is “very strong and discriminatory language” if you are member of genocidal IDF.
And we strongly condemn these governments that keep protecting genocidal maniacs
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