Mass murderers say what?
The friends of genocide are still whining and agitating about Bob Vylan and Kneecap, two performers at Glastonbury last weekend who chanted ‘Death to the IDF’ as a protest against Israel’s genocide. The BBC apologised for broadcasting Vylan – it had caved in and cut from Kneecap to Vylan to try to avoid any pro-Palestinian comment – and said it would delete the recordings of the performances. UK PM Keir Starmer, ever eager to crawl up the hind regions of the Israel lobby and amplify its propaganda, condemned the performances as “appalling hate speech”
While the BBC censored Kneecap and Bob Vylan, other acts also stepped up and showed solidarity with the Palestinian people suffering under Israel’s genocidal bombing, starvation blockade and invasion, but the genocide-apologist Israel lobby, along with the ‘mainstream’ and far-right media, continue to bleat and demand action against the acts who supposedly went beyond the pale.
But while the two bands may have called for the death of a genocidal occupation, the rulers and representatives of that genocidal colony have gone much, much further – calling for the deaths of all Palestinians including women and children – while large parts of the colony’s population shout every year for the death of all Arabs, not just Arab armies, as the excerpts and headlines below demonstrate.
Here are just a few of the clear expressions of genocidal intent by Israel’s leadership, MPs and media figures, in which they call for the slaughter of… everyone in Gaza:
In addition, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu and others have called for Gaza to be treated ‘like Amalek’ – the biblical enemies of Israel whom Israel wiped out: men, women, children and even livestock – while the same people have dehumanised Palestinians as wild animals to be killed.
And it’s not just the Israeli leadership. Israeli settlers hold parties and barbecues within sight of the Gaza border, where they can entertain themselves watching bombs and missiles blow up civilians. The same people march every year chanting ‘death to Arabs’:
A vast majority think that Israel’s genocide in Gaza – they don’t call it that of course – that has killed 400,000 civilians, half of them children, so far, doesn’t go far enough.
And Israeli soldiers in the IDF have filmed themselves committing war crimes, while others have admitted slaughtering innocents in Gaza, either under orders or just… for fun:
Writer Caitlin Johnstone summed up the appropriate response to the genocide-apologists’ entitled whines:
What she said. And the same to Keir Starmer, who is not just amplifying the genocide apologists but actively participating in the crimes of the regime they defend.
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One of the worst aspects of the events of the weekend is, it brings all sorts crawling out of their nests, onto our TV screens.
I remember Ellman, when she was a Lancashire Councillor, and her doleful, mournful tones on Red Rose Radio. Listening to her, my head used to hit the desk after a few minutes. Doleful and mournful, then. Doleful and mournful, now – and still getting paid for it, out of the public purse.
Then we were treated to a full-faced, monologue from John Mann. What’s the matter with his arms? They must be short and stubby because he was holding his phone right in front of his face, yelling into it. Poor Cathy Newman. She had the grace to look alarmed – and she wasn’t the only one. I could see the spittle flying out of his mouth.
Still no word on the Palestinian Genocide, though. That was something else Ellman and Mann had in common.
George Peel yes – the whole thing is being used to promote the oligarchs’/ruling class’/MSM’s ‘culture war’ agenda.
Remember, they have to
– divide to conquer, so they can
– divide & rule.
We mustn’t maje eye-contact with each other or we might ‘connect’ and remember than united the Many can be more powerful than the Few.
Off topic from Richard J Murphy:
Why is Labour punishing disabled people but rewarding the wealthy?
From the transcript:
Neil Kinnock once said before he was even the leader of the Labour Party, ” Don’t be young, don’t be old, don’t get sick.” He said that about the Tories because he thought there was a threat from that party, but now he should be saying it about Labour because those people are now under threat from Labour…
Not one of them is asking, ” Why do we need to penalise some of the most vulnerable people in the UK when the wealthiest are still getting vast quantities of state benefits a year?”…
Those 70 Labour MPs who backed down have sold out. There’s no other way to describe them. And I hope their constituents remember that. They’re selling out on their ethics for a basic political calculation about saving their skin, and that to me is utterly unacceptable…
A decent society has a bias to the poor. That’s the real test of moral leadership that anybody should be judged against, and on this criterion, Labour is not delivering moral leadership. We are seeing them deliver leadership that focuses only on their needs for survival and not on the needs of the people in this country, whom they should be in office to support…
https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/07/01/labours-failed-its-pip-test/
“National shame
Jew hatred”
Wails that old fart, mirvis. Chief rabbit-on…and on and on.
Well guess what, mirvis? Let’s discuss this Jew hatred in a bit more depth, shall we?
Jew hatred… of Palestinians, is manifesting itself as the industrial scale murder were seeing in gaza and fhe west bank.
Not a few hurty words. Actual genocidal action. Mass murder day after day after day.
Then there’s the Jew hatred…of Christians in Taybeh…and did you go wailing to the mainstream media about that?
Nope. I guess incidents like these are just a series of skirmishes are they, mirvis?
OK, let’s play along with that one, eh? Except there’s NO disputing that they invariably involve jews, 100% of the time as the instigators. Backed up by your idf, as they beat the shit out of those residents, trash their houses, wreck their vehicles and release or murder their livestock and ruin their crops.
But bob vylan said antisemitic things…except they didn’t. They hate the haters.
Whereas you appear to hate anyone who won’t allow the haters a free hand, hiding behind your religion and your persecution complex.
Outraged by everything, ashamed of nothing. Always the victim, it’s NEVER your fault.
Yourl’re boring people into disliking you now, mirvis. I suggest you change the record…got any kneecap?
Toffee
Chief Rabid at the March of the Flags
Chant
‘Death to the Arabs’
Can Plod please investigate
But we are missing the point
Everyone who unequivocally supports the Genocide should be asked have you taken legal advice, you are complicit and will be prosecuted at Nuremberg 2.0
Where we sincerely hope they bring back hanging and/or the Guillotine
Death to Holocaust deniers
Indeed, dougal.
A stout hemp rope would await all that supported this abomination, if I had my way.
And piano wire for those who complained about it being called out for what if actually is.
So fkin nick me…
Meanwhile, yesterday in Parliament:
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/deposed-shahs-son-promote-iran-regime-change-uk-parliament-event
Luke ‘Zionist Shitlord’ Akehurst joint sponsors the son of the late Shah of Iran to talk about regime change in Iran.
Caitlin Johnson, loved your words! So perfectly summing up where we in the UK find ourselves.
We can but hope
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
My Representatives had a long and productive meeting with the Israelis today on Gaza. Israel has agreed to the necessary conditions to finalize the 60 Day CEASEFIRE, during which time we will work with all parties to end the War. The Qataris and Egyptians, who have worked very hard to help bring Peace, will deliver this final proposal. I hope, for the good of the Middle East, that Hamas takes this Deal, because it will not get better — IT WILL ONLY GET WORSE. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
Jul 01, 2025, 11:25 PM
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114780321031653396
The devil, as always, is in the detail.
When we have objective based details of what this “final deal” is, we will be in a better position to determine whether it has a realistic prospect of success.
However, given the, let’s go with, suggestion in this latest Trump edict by social media that he already has the details of what the “final deal” is even though any talks have only just passed the gleam in the milkman’s eyes stage, there seems every possibility that this is merely another vainglorious attempt by the numpties that pass for Western leadership to dictate terms, again.
Meanwhile, here’s Jonathan Cook with his latest two pennyworth on the matter in hand:
https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/is-a-glastonbury-chant-the-real-problem
“It is beyond ridiculous for the BBC to echo the Israeli government in prioritising a harsh crackdown on words at Glastonbury “glorifying violence” towards Israeli soldiers ahead of the actual violence of genocide being committed by those Israel soldiers.
The BBC has avoided criticising the Israeli government for its actual violence – its bombing and active starvation of Palestinian civilians – and the Starmer government for colluding in that violence, or what the International Court of Justice termed more than a year ago a “plausible” genocide by Israel.
As a recent report by the Centre for Media Monitoring confirmed, the BBC has dramatically skewed its language to present Israel, the aggressor, in a more favourable light than the victim, the Palestinians of Gaza. The BBC’s own whistleblowing journalists have warned that the state broadcaster has all but banned the use of the word “genocide”, even by experts on the matter.
By arming Israel, by organising spy flights over Gaza from RAF base Akrotiri on Cyprus, and by providing diplomatic cover, Starmer has effectively glorified Israel’s slaughter of Palestinian children in the enclave. Bob Vylan’s chants of “Death to the IDF” have a far more dangerous counterpart in Starmer’s recital of Israel’s “right to defend itself” when that “defence” involves Israel mercilessly starving Gaza’s population of food, water and power.
No one, least of all the BBC, has held Israeli or British officials accountable not just for glorifying violence but for actually carrying it out on an industrial scale for nearly two years.
But the BBC is suddenly interested in holding to account two punk musicians for leading a chant – one that made a symbolic, hypothetical threat of violence – against an Israeli military carrying out the ultimate form of violence, an actual genocide. In a serious media, Israel’s supposed “concerns” about the glorification of violence and extremist language would be laughed off the stage rather than respectfully aired…..
…….Starmer and Streeting’s prioritising of Israel’s West Bank violence over Israel’s Gaza violence is a switch and bait twice over.
Most of the violence in the West Bank is not coming from settler extremists, even though they are the ones being punished by the UK. It is coming from the Israeli military, which has bulldozed thousands of homes there over the past year, driving 40,000 Palestinians off their lands.
Further, settler violence is not random. It is coordinated with Israeli field commanders, many of them settlers themselves, to uproot Palestinians so that Israel can move in Jewish settlers to colonise the land – or, in the words of successive Israeli governments, “Judaise” it.
None of this is new either. Israel has engineered and imposed a violent, apartheid system on Palestinians for decades to make life unbearable and encourage them to leave their homeland.”