Canaan Lidor reports for JNS on the performance of the pseudonymous Bobby Vylan at Glastonbury yesterday:
At the largest music festival in the United Kingdom on Saturday, thousands chanted “Death to the IDF,” echoing a performer who also told them to “not give up your dreams” even when they’re “working for Zionists.”
A British government spokesperson condemned the rhetoric used on stage by Bobby Vylan, which was aired on the BBC.
JNS adds parenthetically: “The Bob Vylan punk duo consists of singer/guitarist Bobby Vylan and drummer Bobbie Vylan. They use stage names to hide their real names.” The event, by the way, was broadcast live on the BBC.
Spiked’s Brendan O’Neill comments “Glastonbury has become a sinister festival of anti-Semitism” at the Spectator’s UK site:
Let’s speak frankly – our moral crisis is too pressing for pussy-footing. ‘Death to the IDF’ means the death of Jews. First, because the soldiers of the IDF are predominantly Jewish. But more importantly because this is the force tasked with defending the Jewish homeland from the armies of anti-Semites that surround it. The IDF is the only thing standing between the Jewish State and its genocidal obliteration by the apocalyptic bigots on its borders.
The death of the IDF would be the death of the world’s only Jewish nation. Untold numbers of Jews would perish in the event of this thing dreamt of by the preening middle classes of Glastonbury. ‘We didn’t think of that’, some will say today, as shame intrudes into the sick joy they derived from praying for the death of other human beings. Well, to borrow a slogan beloved of you people: ‘Educate yourselves.’
The seriousness of what happened at Glastonbury cannot be overstated…. For here we had privileged youths issuing mantras of death. Here we had a festival that’s meant to be about peace and love ringing out with a din-like demand for the destruction of human life. Imagine how Glasto’s Jewish attendees will have felt. Or Jewish viewers at home – the BBC live-broadcasted the sick death chant. A majority of British Jews identify with the Jewish nation, and yet here were their Gentile compatriots openly fantasising about the death of that nation’s youthful protectors. What a sickening sight.
The question that hangs darkly over Glastonbury’s death dreaming is this: why the IDF? Why not ‘Death to the People’s Liberaton Army’, which visits such horrors on the Uyghur people? Or ‘Death to the Rapid Support Forces’, the psycho militia that has caused tens of thousands of deaths in Sudan over the past two years? Or, indeed, ‘Death to Hamas’, that reactionary, racist army that started the war in Gaza with its fascistic pogrom of 7 October 2023? A pogrom that involved mass rape and murder at a music festival not unlike Glastonbury.
We all know why….
O’Neill concludes:
For me, that’s what Glastonbury felt like yesterday: a woke Nuremberg rally….Glastonbury has apologised. The festival said it was ‘appalled’ by what unfolded. But there’s no doubt that this felt like a turning point. The mania of Israel-hate stood exposed before the world. The true nature of the bourgeois cult of Palestinianism, with its virulent hostility not only to Israel but to the West itself, was clear for all to see. We glimpsed, briefly, the threat that the delirium of Israelophobia poses to Jewish security, to the values of our own civilisation, and to all that is decent. These people have had the stage for too long – it’s time for the good among us to stand up.
Who needs Leni Riefenstahl when you have Glastonbury and the BBC? I have posted video below.
How does a society go from watching Jews being slaughtered at a music festival to chanting for Jews to be slaughtered at a music festival?
That’s exactly what happened at Glastonbury. pic.twitter.com/r4GpUGmg7r
— Aviva Klompas (@AvivaKlompas) June 29, 2025
