BBC turmoil over Glastonbury coverage of Bob Vylan: ‘Senior heads should roll’
BBC turmoil over Glastonbury coverage of Bob Vylan: ‘Senior heads should roll’
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BBC turmoil over Glastonbury coverage of Bob Vylan: ‘Senior heads should roll’
BBC turmoil over Glastonbury coverage of Bob Vylan: ‘Senior heads should roll’
Posted by theipaper
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Senior BBC figures should resign over the[ “shocking editorial failure”](https://inews.co.uk/news/media/divas-angry-viewers-why-glastonbury-headache-bbc-3760181?ico=in-line_link) which led to the live broadcast of “death to the IDF” chants during a Glastonbury performance by [Bob Vylan](https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/uk-politics-live-latest-updates-starmer-2-3776936?ico=in-line_link), insiders have said.
Director-General Tim Davie is facing pressure, with police urged to mount a criminal investigation into claims that the[ live-streamed performance](https://inews.co.uk/news/entertainment/cash-strapped-bbc-fears-losing-glastonbury-tv-rights-streaming-giants-3769401?ico=in-line_link) may have breached hate speech laws.
On Saturday, Bobby Vylan, singer with the pro-Palestinian punk duo, led chants calling for death to members of the Israeli military and “from the river to the sea” – considered by some to be a call for the annihilation of the Jewish state.
Glastonbury Festival said it was “appalled” by the actions of the group on stage on Saturday, adding that it “crossed a line”.
The festival said it had told everyone involved in the production that there was “no place for antisemitism, hate speech or incitement to violence” at the event. The festival would not say whether Bob Vylan, who also appeared last year, would continue to be platformed.
BBC staffers said the most severe consequences should follow. The scenes from Saturday follow repeated warnings in the lead-up to the festival that the BBC must not allow its extensive coverage to be hijacked by pro-Palestinian activists.
On Sunday, the Irish garage punk band Sprints performed against a backdrop saying: “Israel is committing genocide. Use your voice.”
Naturally, impartiality is paramount at the BBC. They simply cannot allow politics to interfere with their rigorous, daily obligation to cradle Nigel Farage like a Fabergé egg.
A punk rock band has a punk rock message to people at a festival.
On the other news, water is wet.
More outrage over a guy singing on Glastonbury stage than children dying of starvation right now because of Aid blocks. Disgusting.
lol at the ‘Zionist replacing Jew’ bit.
To find out who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticise.
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I wonder if the response would have been the same on Reddit if he had said sink the inflatables..
They can do what they want, the BBC will back them.
3/4 of the world want those monsters stopped. Would it have been wrong to say death to the SS? Death to binladden?
I’m fine with it. Waant inciting violence, it’s ok to hate those killing innocent children.
It’s not ok to keep censoring those who speak out about genocide and war crimes.
What I find hilarious is that loads of the people wanting them to be punished for what they said are the same people who want that girl out of prison because she said “hurty words”
Why?
Yea senior heads, as in top level government officials that continue to support Israel
Feels like shit just want my country back
This whole thing is idiotic, what are you going to do, just cut off footage of everything in case someone says something anti-Israel?
Maybe we should say our censorship regime in the UK has gone too far, and stop putting the feelings of this foreign shitbag government ahead of our own citizens rights.
If there was a right wing band called waterboard and chanted kill your local imam at festivals, wonder whether the free speech crowd would be fine with that
Gosh, you’d think the guy bombed a hospital or withheld aid and let children starve to death or something.
The boys had an open goal, beeb were way too concerned about Kneecap. Good on them
UK government/police put a mother in jail for Twitter comments but they allow violent/hateful public speech.
2 Tier Policing.
Jail them.
Their music is pony & would be doing the world a favour.
This is far more serious than reddit is willing to admit, just look at the comments, but the proof of the radicalisation is all over the threads relating to this. Anti-terrorism and prevent need to be involved. If the BBC was broadcasting far-right rallies, or imams promoting hate it would be clear what needs to happen. The left think they’re on the “right side of history” but this is the same old hate, and it’s getting worse.
This isn’t the government to do it I doubt, but we should be looking at a proper investigation to see how deep this antisemitic issue goes. It seems to be rampant throughout the media, throughout the universities and throughout certain parts of social media.
This is a joke, at what point did we decide to star ranking acceptable speech?
What did they think a punk duo was going to do when they restricted another performer’s set and said they wouldn’t broadcast live?
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