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Foto van Bobby Vylan, die deel uitmaakt van het duo Bob Vylan. Foto overgenomen uit artikel van Jonathan Cook dat hieronder is opgenomen, vreemd genoeg was deze foto een dag later (woensdag 2 juli) op de site verwisseld voor een foto waarop Starmer is te zien die wordt geïnterviewd door BBC Victoria Derbyshire. Bovenstaande foto: Kieran Frost
Ongelofelijk de enorme hysterie plus hypocrisie na het optreden van Bob Vylan op het meerdaagse muziekfestival Glastonbury in Engeland. De oproep 'Free, Free Palestine' en de hypothetische leus: "Death, death to the IDF", zijn volgens de totaal afhankelijke staatsmedia en commerciële Britse media, plus veel andere westerse media met dezelfde eigenschap, niets anders dan uitingen van antisemitisme, haatspraak en aanzetten tot geweld.... Hetzelfde geldt voor de meeste Britse politici, rechtse denktanks en 'deskundigen'. Waarmee zeker deze media en politici de 2 bandleden demoniseren, terwijl ze al meer dan 20 maanden lang een genocide ofwel zelfs goedpraten met de meer dan schunnige 'reden' dat Israël het recht heeft zich te verdedigen >> blijkbaar ook door geheel openlijk een genocide uit te voeren, dan wel eenvoudigweg te verzwijgen dat Israël een genocide uitvoert in de Gazastrook met het stellen dat Israël in oorlog is met Hamas, alsof het Israëlische leger (IDF) en Hamas twee gelijkwaardige partijen zijn en Israël daarbij de burgers zoveel mogelijk ontziet..... Sterker nog: het stellen dat Israël een genocide uitvoert op de Palestijnen, of zelfs het rondlopen met een T-shirt waarop de Palestijnse vlag is te zien kan je een aanklacht wegens antisemitisme opleveren in zowel Groot-Brittannië als Duitsland >> waarvoor je strafrechtelijk kan worden vervolgd.....
De volgende video werd op Facebook gedeeld door Ptr Lentelink:
Dan was er nog een tweede band, te weten >> Kneecap, een trio uit Noord-Ierland dat al bekend stond om hun openlijke uitspraken tegen de Israëlische genocide, waar dat woord zoals gezegd al genoeg is om door de regering Starmer en de reguliere Britse media voor antisemiet te worden uitgemaakt....
De IDF, ofwel de 'Israel Defense Forces' is met het leger van de VS het meest moderne leger ter wereld en de notie dat dit leger aangevallen zou kunnen worden op grond van een leus tijdens een muziekfestival, een leus die meer een symbolische, hypothetische leus is, is te dom voor woorden, immers hoe ongelofelijk leeg in je bol moet je zijn als je die leus letterlijk opvat als zou je op grond daarvan dat leger moeten aanvallen.... Terwijl de genocide die de IDF uitvoert alles behalve symbolisch dan wel hypothetisch is, zo hebben we nu al bijna 21 maanden lang openlijk kunnen zien!!
Als men de IDF al aanvalt is dat te danken aan de enorme agressie van dit fascistische psychopatenleger, ten eerste de genocide die dit leger van monsters uitvoert op de Palestijnen en daarnaast ten tweede, derde, vierde en vijfde: het oorlogvoeren tegen Jemen, Libanon, Syrië en Iran.... En ten slotte: wie het Israëlische leger aanvalt heeft voor 99% kans om zelf om het leven te komen!! Zelfs het uit pure frustratie simpel gooien van een steen naar een IDF-militair of legervoertuig kan je een kogel in het hoofd kosten, ook als je maar 15 jaar oud bent.....
(als je de Engelse taal niet beheerst, zet dan de tekst om in Nederlands met behulp van Google translate dat je rechts bovenaan deze pagina ziet staan, klik eerst in het menu op 'Engels', waarna je weer kan klikken op die vertaalapp, daarna zie je bovenaan in het menu 'Nederlands' staan >> klik daarop en de hele tekst staat vervolgens in het Nederlands, de vertaling is van een redelijk goede kwaliteit.)
Is a Glastonbury Chant the Real Problem, or Israel’s Genocidal Violence in Gaza?
Israel, Starmer’s Government and the Media Are Fomenting a Moral Panic
Jonathan Cook
July1, 2025
Keir Starmer expressed predictable outrage at the weekend that the BBC had inadvertently broadcast punk band Bob Vylan leading crowds at Glastonbury in a chant of “Death to the IDF”—the so-called “Israel Defence Forces” that have been responsible for slaughtering many tens of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza over the past 21 months.
The BBC apologised, calling the band’s comments “deeply offensive”—more offensive, apparently, than Israel bombing and starving the children of Gaza.
Glastonbury’s organisers condemned the chant, saying there was no space for “hate speech or antisemitism”—apparently assuming, wrongly, that all Jews identify not just with the state of Israel but with an Israeli military widely accused by genocide experts of committing genocidal violence in Gaza.
Police are investigating Bob Vylan, a musical duo, to see whether they have committed a criminal offence, or possibly a terrorist one. As far as we know, the same police are doing nothing to investigate some 10 British citizens known to have travelled abroad to join the Israeli military, the IDF, committing the Gaza genocide.
On Sunday, the BBC’s Victoria Derbyshire grilled Starmer’s health secretary, Wes Streeting, on remarks from the Israeli embassy in London condemning what it termed “the normalisation of extremist language” and the “glorification of violence” at Glastonbury.
Unexpectedly, Streeting avoided jumping whole-heartedly on the media outrage band-wagon, led by the Mail on Sunday, whose front page demanded the arrest of the two band members for what the paper wrongly described as a chant demanding “Death to Israelis”. The Mail, apparently, believes that all Israelis, presumably including the country’s children, are currently serving in the Israeli military.
(Hier stond een video die helaas al voor ik het bericht ontving werd gecensureerd......)
There are four important points to make about the interview between Derbyshire and Streeting:
1. The Israeli embassy in London, like the Israeli government it represents, has precisely no concerns about the “glorification of violence” when Israel is doing either the glorifying or the violence. Israel is currently celebrating its “success” in slaughtering and maiming hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza, including huge numbers of children; attacks by its soldiers and state-backed Jewish settler militias on Palestinian civilians in the West Bank; its eradication of whole communities in Lebanon; and its bombing of residential tower blocks across Tehran, killing many hundreds.
Violence has been Israel’s signature policy for the past 21 months—and long before that. Israel has revelled in the carnage it has inflicted on populations across the region.
In a post on social media, the Israeli embassy additionally argued of Bob Vylan’s chant: “When speech crosses into incitement, hatred, and advocacy of ethnic cleansing, it must be called out—especially when amplified by public figures on prominent platforms.”
And yet public figures from Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu to British prime minister Keir Starmer have incited against the Palestinians, with Netanyahu comparing them to “Amalek”, a people the Israelites were commanded by God to exterminate, and Starmer terming the wholesale starvation of the people of Gaza “self-defence”.
Israeli officials from Netanyahu down have advocated the ethnic cleansing of Gaza. And, even more seriously, Israel has not just threatened but repeatedly carried out the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians under its belligerent rule.
2. It is beyond ridiculous for the BBC to echo the Israeli government in prioritising a harsh crackdown on words at Glastonbury "glorifying violence" towards Israeli soldiers ahead of the actual violence of genocide being committed by those Israel soldiers.
The BBC has avoided criticising the Israeli government for its actual violence—its bombing and active starvation of Palestinian civilians—and the Starmer government for colluding in that violence, or what the International Court of Justice termed more than a year ago a “plausible” genocide by Israel.
As a recent report by the Centre for Media Monitoring confirmed, the BBC has dramatically skewed its language to present Israel, the aggressor, in a more favourable light than the victim, the Palestinians of Gaza. The BBC’s own whistleblowing journalists have warned that the state broadcaster has all but banned the use of the word “genocide”, even by experts on the matter.
By arming Israel, by organising spy flights over Gaza from RAF base Akrotiri on Cyprus, and by providing diplomatic cover, Starmer has effectively glorified Israel’s slaughter of Palestinian children in the enclave. Bob Vylan’s chants of “Death to the IDF” have a far more dangerous counterpart in Starmer’s recital of Israel’s “right to defend itself” when that “defence” involves Israel mercilessly starving Gaza’s population of food, water and power.
Bob Vylan are a punk band; Starmer is the British prime minister, the man who directs Britain’s foreign policy and directs its army.
No one, least of all the BBC, has held Israeli or British officials accountable not just for glorifying violence but for actually carrying it out on an industrial scale for nearly two years.
But the BBC is suddenly interested in holding to account two punk musicians for leading a chant—one that made a symbolic, hypothetical threat of violence—against an Israeli military carrying out the ultimate form of violence, an actual genocide. In a serious media, Israel’s supposed “concerns” about the glorification of violence and extremist language would be laughed off the stage rather than respectfully aired.
3. Wes Streeting is being congratulated and condemned in equal measure on social media for refusing to be drawn into the Mail and BBC’s confected outrage. “I’d say to the Israeli embassy, get your own house in order,” he responded to Derbyshire. But hang on a minute. Streeting’s resistance to Derbyshire’s line of questioning was perhaps unexpected. But it also, let us not forget, serves the interests of both the Starmer and Israeli governments.
Streeting’s insistence that Israel “get its house in order” had, as he made clear, nothing to do with its 21-month slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza. Starmer is still defining the Gaza genocide as Israel’s supposed “right to defend itself”. In responding to Derbyshire, Streeting expressed concern only at what he called violent “settler attacks” in the West Bank. He said the Israeli embassy needed to “get your own house in order in terms of the conduct of your own citizens and the settlers in the West Bank”.
This was intended purely as deflection, designed to serve Starmer and Israel, the West’s key client state in the oil-rich Middle East. It benefits the UK government to make an issue of West Bank settler attacks—and present them as disorganised, random violence by individual extremists that the Israeli government is not responsible for but needs to get a firmer grip on.
By highlighting problems in the West Bank, the Starmer government can avoid addressing the genocide in Gaza and the Israeli state’s clear responsibility for that genocide. Which is precisely why in recent weeks Britain has made so much noise about imposing feeble penalties on a handful of extremist settlers and two fascist ministers in Benjamin Netanyahu’s government that represent those settlers.
Starmer and Streeting’s prioritising of Israel’s West Bank violence over Israel’s Gaza violence is a switch and bait twice over.
Most of the violence in the West Bank is not coming from settler extremists, even though they are the ones being punished by the UK. It is coming from the Israeli military, which has bulldozed thousands of homes there over the past year, driving 40,000 Palestinians off their lands.
Further, settler violence is not random. It is coordinated with Israeli field commanders, many of them settlers themselves, to uproot Palestinians so that Israel can move in Jewish settlers to colonise the land—or, in the words of successive Israeli governments, “Judaise” it.
None of this is new either. Israel has engineered and imposed a violent, apartheid system on Palestinians for decades to make life unbearable and encourage them to leave their homeland.
Second, Glastonbury’s anger-fuelled chant against the IDF was not primarily motivated by Israel’s violent actions in the West Bank. It was against the Israeli military for committing a genocide in Gaza, which the British government has been supporting. Streeting’s aim was to drag the debate on to safer territory for him and Starmer: that Britain needs to deal not with a genocide in Gaza but with a handful of violent loons in the West Bank.
Even in criticising the Israeli government for not doing enough to tackle settler violence, Streeting is still operating within the confines of a public discourse dictated by Israel, which prefers any criticism to be directed at individuals not at the Israeli state behind those individuals.
4. The BBC, the Starmer government and the Israel lobby are all delighted to play their part in this game of deflection and deception because these kinds of moral panics obscure the real issue: that all these parties are actively colluding in Israel's genocide in Gaza. While the media and government can now have a long backwards and forwards about whether criticism of Israel's genocidal army needs to be defined in law as a criminal offence or "terrorism", Israel will get a free pass to continue with the real terrorism: a genocide in Gaza.
Famously, the black civil rights fighter Malcolm X observed of the role of the media: “They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that’s power. … If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” Sixty years on, nothing has changed.
(vetgemaakte tekst in het hierboven weergegeven artikel is van mijn hand, Ap.)
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Zie ook: 'The real crimes are taking place in Gaza, not at Glastonbury or Brize Norton' (2 juli 2025) Een artikel van Jonathan Cook >> Starmer's government constantly sells us red herrings to throw us off the scent of the UK's complicity in Israel's genocide
'Kneecap At Glastonbury: What Happened When The Band Finally Performed?' (30 juni 2025) Een artikel van Daniel Welsh, gepubliceerd op Yahoo News >> (vetgemaakte passages van mijn hand, Ap) Kneecap said: “We deny this ‘offence’ and will vehemently defend ourselves. This is political policing. This is a carnival of distraction. We are not the story. Genocide is.” (en zo is het!!)
- Kneecap Reflect On Incident That Led To Band Member Being Charged With Terror Offence
Glastonbury Organiser Breaks Silence On Controversy Over Kneecap's Spot On This Year's Line-Up
Kneecap Hit Back After Keir Starmer Says They Should Be Pulled From Glastonbury Line-Up
'Aanvallen van Israël op Iran beloven niets goeds voor de Palestijnen in de Gazastrook' (13 juni 2025)
'7 oktober 2023: Israël was van te voren op de hoogte van de Hamas aanvallen. Plus de 22 nieuwe nederzettingen' (29 mei 2025) En zie de berichten onder de links in die blogpost!!
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Laatste update op 4 augustus 2025.
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