Glastonbury Festival breaks silence on controversy as artist ‘crossed a line’

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1. He has to be charged and arrested, right?

   Who would have thought a music festival, who’s main attendees are left leaning, a lot of who are radical left lap all of this type of chanting up.

   How those Irish lot were allowed is beyond me.

2. It’s crossing a line to speak out about genocide.

   Alrighty then…

3. Fair play to Vylan. Free Palestine!

4. Lmao insulting israel is the line but not a word about hating the natives of this country

5. “I heard you want your country back? Ha, shut the fuck up!”

   – Bob Vylan and Benjamin Netanyahu 2 weeks apart

6. The UK is fucked if we get our nickers in a twist about a festival but sit, watch and support the systematic murder of men, women and children by an ethno-nationalist apartheid state. Absolutely fucked with no moral compass.

7. Before you get mad about ‘Death to the IDF’ as a chant, ask yourself if you’d be as mad that someone chanted for death to the Russian Armed Forces for their invasion of Ukraine.

   And then remember that the IDF’s preferred methods of attack have been on hospitals, aid convoys, and journalists.

   And then ask yourself if you are only supposed to be mad that illegal war is taking place when a nation not allied with your own is doing it.

8. Shouting free Palestine is fine in my opinion. If he had left it at that then shouldn’t have been a problem, I mean the Israelis wouldn’t have liked it, and would have labelled it antisemitic like they do any criticism, but tough shit. Where I think he’s crossed the line is saying death to IDF and from the river to the sea. These comments are inciting violence.

   I don’t agree with much Wes Streeting says, I find insufferably arrogant, but his example is actually a valid one.

9. The more I see this story the less I care.
   I don’t give a fuck what a load of middle class wankers, in a field, think about foreign policies.

   There is terrorism on both sides so it’s pretty irrelevant what your stance is; a group of people are glorying killing another.

   Have your opinions and sugarcoat the facts you don’t like but ultimately it’s religion vs religion once again. I hate it all and I despise everyone involved.

10. They are being lent on

11. What exactly did he say that was anti-semitic?

12. Oh no, 2 artists called for death to the IDF.. Does that mean the corridors of power are worried about their customers not buying their products anymore? Or does it mean a lowering of prices?

13. I found his comments about *our* country more concerning than those about another country’s military to be honest.

14. “Celebrating peace, hope and unity”. 🤡🤡

15. It’s scum versus scum 😂

16. He incited violence. Ought to be arrested.

17. I’ll tell you where I’m starting to stand. I didn’t give a damn about these proxy wars in other places. But when you’ve got people with microphones attacking the native people of this country. Then I’m with the French. Viva la Revolution.

18. These bands are using the Palestinian flag to market their music. Its tragic af

19. ITT Mass schizophrenia.

20. Just came here to buzz to some Choons man.

21. I wonder if Pascal’s arse is twitching today!

22. A plague in both their houses Hamas for being a terrorist group that uses food from aid groups to control the population and humans as shield and the Israeli government for not knowing when to stop and say enough is enough. We learned that in Northern Ireland. That’s why Kneecap are utterly odious using a term for the worst punishment handed out by terrorists as if it was ‘cool’. Yes Gen whatever has lost a lot of its humanity at these festivals.

23. Couldn’t Israel and Palestine don’t know Just  have a big wall that separates two nation. 
    You do got Israelis balkanising itself in the west bank. But I suppose those two people are very keen on wanting to kill each other, so don’t really care that much.

24. I see no lines crossed only the people standing up against tyranny!

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