Bob Vylan dropped from music festivals in Manchester and France

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz09y1r1y1ro

by PM_THE_REAPER

11 comments

  1. Student unions should book them since the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act 2023 prevents them from being no platformed.

  3. It’s all a bit dramatic isn’t it. I don’t know Bob Vylan but I probably wouldn’t enjoy their company all that much, but starting a chant with some University poshos larping as the proletariat shouldn’t be dominating the headlines as much as it has. Incitement really should carry some sort of broad ability to actually be able to carry out the aims of the chant. Anyone in the UK who has ever said “death to the IDF” at a music festival lacks the ability to do anything to support that aim, making it a meaningless, self-pat on the back, and nothing more than that.

    Still, if private music festivals want to drop musicians, then they’re also perfectly within their rights to do that.

  4. This is freedom of speech. You can say what you want to, but you aren’t free from the consequences

  5. they’ve just embarrassed a load of politicians who make feeble statements about gaza, but who are impotent about stopping the killing.

    they’d rather be mad at a punk band than face their own uselessness.

  6. Look forward to anyone who’s ever said ‘Fuck XYZ institution’ getting banned from public appearances for ‘inciting non consensual sex’.

  7. Is this an example of the “cancel culture” that rightwingers keep moaning about?

  8. Personally, I get the impression this is less about incitement to violence against the IDF, and more about the fact the government do not want UK supporters of either side of this conflict to feel emboldened. They don’t want ethnic violence in the UK, because that’s what will happen if certain elements within pro-Palestine Arab communities think the whole country is behind them, British Jews will end up hurt.

    The same would apply if they were broadcasting pro-zionist messages and making hardline Jews feel supported. These communities hate each other, and this country cannot be seen to endorse their hatred here, just because we find the actions of a foreign country detestable.

  9. If I was in their shoes I’d at least be happy that I hadn’t ‘sold out’, even if their career is probably over. I probably disagree with them on lots and I’m not that interested in the music but I hope they can salvage something from this mess.

  10. Like they’ve said in their statement – this is all a distraction. Them being dropped from other festivals, the backlash, the police investigation, it’s all a smokescreen. The Israeli, American and British governments are desperately trying to get the genie back in the bottle. These endless news articles are just covering up what the IDF are doing to innocent Palestinians, bombing and shooting them at fake aid stations.

    You can rant about “university poshos larping as the proletariat” all you want (this is dumb too btw, plenty of people in minimum wage jobs go to Glastonbury), but it doesn’t change the fact that the average Brit is starting to wake up to the Israeli government’s war crimes.

  11. if they had chanted death to ANY other foreign army on earth, nobody would have batted an eyelid

    moments like this further illustrate just how extraordinarily powerful Israel and it’s lobby truly are

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