In 2026, there will be no Glastonbury. Have all the BBC execs and Corbynistas from Crouch End (often the self-same insufferable people), with their recreational keffiyehs and kefir yogurt poultices to treat Chlamydia (the sexually transmitted disease not the name of their daughter), decided a year of atonement is in order for the grotesque display of anti-Semitism? I’m afraid not.
The Somerset festival has a fallow year to allow the land to recover from the righteous stampede of woke wellies and ethically-crafted Crocs. Well, the grass may grow back, but the reputation of our national broadcaster is as scorched as the earth the hordes of stoned progressives leave behind. Millions of licence-fee payers will today be asking, why should the corporation continue to call itself the British Broadcasting Corporation when it promotes anti-British values while causing pain and fear to our Jewish citizens?
“Death, death to the IDF [Israeli Defence Forces]!,” crowed rapper Bobby Vylan, real name Pascal Robinson-Foster, and the vast crowd joined in the blood-curdling, homicidal chant – a moment which the Chief Rabbi has rightly described as a “time of national shame”.
I met Sir Ephraim Mirvis recently and he is a man of almost saintly sweetness, but the “Be Kind” brigade at Glastonbury caused him finally to snap. “The airing of vile Jew-hatred [… ] and the BBC’s belated and mishandled response brings confidence in our national broadcaster’s ability to treat anti-Semitism seriously to a new low,” the Chief Rabbi posted on X.
“It should trouble all decent people that now one need only couch their outright incitement to violence and hatred as edgy political commentary for ordinary people to not only fail to see it for what it is but also to cheer it, chant it and celebrate it.Toxic Jew-hatred is a threat to our entire society.”
After that stern rebuke from the spiritual leader of British Jews, you would have expected BBC director-general Tim Davie to tender his resignation. The situation demands nothing less. It turns out Mr Davie was present at the festival on Saturday afternoon and he could easily have ordered the livestream on BBC iPlayer to be halted. Instead, the repugnant performance at the West Holts stage was allowed to continue with a feeble on-screen warning.
To add insult to potential incitement, the Irish rap trio Kneecap, took to the stage directly after Bob Vylan (as Bobby Vylan’s rap group are confusingly called) and led chants of “Free Palestine”. Band member Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh – performing as Mo Chara – appeared in court last month charged with a terrorism offence for allegedly displaying the flag of Hezbollah, a proscribed terrorist organisation.
In 2026, there will be no Glastonbury. Have all the BBC execs and Corbynistas from Crouch End (often the self-same insufferable people), with their recreational keffiyehs and kefir yogurt poultices to treat Chlamydia (the sexually transmitted disease not the name of their daughter), decided a year of atonement is in order for the grotesque display of anti-Semitism? I’m afraid not.
The Somerset festival has a fallow year to allow the land to recover from the righteous stampede of woke wellies and ethically-crafted Crocs. Well, the grass may grow back, but the reputation of our national broadcaster is as scorched as the earth the hordes of stoned progressives leave behind. Millions of licence-fee payers will today be asking, why should the corporation continue to call itself the British Broadcasting Corporation when it promotes anti-British values while causing pain and fear to our Jewish citizens?
“Death, death to the IDF [Israeli Defence Forces]!,” crowed rapper Bobby Vylan, real name Pascal Robinson-Foster, and the vast crowd joined in the blood-curdling, homicidal chant – a moment which the Chief Rabbi has rightly described as a “time of national shame”.
I met Sir Ephraim Mirvis recently and he is a man of almost saintly sweetness, but the “Be Kind” brigade at Glastonbury caused him finally to snap. “The airing of vile Jew-hatred [… ] and the BBC’s belated and mishandled response brings confidence in our national broadcaster’s ability to treat anti-Semitism seriously to a new low,” the Chief Rabbi posted on X.
“It should trouble all decent people that now one need only couch their outright incitement to violence and hatred as edgy political commentary for ordinary people to not only fail to see it for what it is but also to cheer it, chant it and celebrate it.Toxic Jew-hatred is a threat to our entire society.”
After that stern rebuke from the spiritual leader of British Jews, you would have expected BBC director-general Tim Davie to tender his resignation. The situation demands nothing less. It turns out Mr Davie was present at the festival on Saturday afternoon and he could easily have ordered the livestream on BBC iPlayer to be halted. Instead, the repugnant performance at the West Holts stage was allowed to continue with a feeble on-screen warning.
To add insult to potential incitement, the Irish rap trio Kneecap, took to the stage directly after Bob Vylan (as Bobby Vylan’s rap group are confusingly called) and led chants of “Free Palestine”. Band member Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh – performing as Mo Chara – appeared in court last month charged with a terrorism offence for allegedly displaying the flag of Hezbollah, a proscribed terrorist organisation.