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    Wes Streeting brands 'death to the IDF' Glastonbury chant 'appalling' as he says festival has 'questions to answer'
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    Wes Streeting brands ‘death to the IDF’ Glastonbury chant ‘appalling’ as he says festival has ‘questions to answer’


    Wes Streeting brands ‘death to the IDF’ Glastonbury chant ‘appalling’ as he says festival has ‘questions to answer’

    https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/uk/glastonbury-gaza-idf-bob-vylan-palestine-genocide/

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    1. limeflavoured on

      Did we have people shouting for the deaths of British soldiers in Afghanistan or Iraq? I remember maybe one or two people saying things like that online, but it didn’t spread much beyond edgy online teens.

    2. Charming_Ad_6021 on

      Shouldn’t he be concentrating on selling off the NHS or whatever his job is, rather than getting upset about what people say about foreign militaries?

    3. Antique-Conflique on

      The scholarly consensus is that the IDF is committing genocide. Our rules based international order says it’s a genocide.

      No I don’t support Hamas or Hezbollah, nor am I anti-semitic, I’m on the side of the kids being slaughtered.

    4. FlabbyShabby on

      Regarding the actions of the IDF: You cannot blame the individual soldiers, captains, corporals, colonels, majors, etc. of the IDF, right? They were “just following orders”!

      Huh? Where have I heard that before?

    5. Better_Concert1106 on

      Anyone would think Bob Vylan shot a bunch of people waiting for aid, wasted an aid convoy or bombed a hospital, given the outrage..

    6. bobcat_bedders on

      Yeah, but they also love to chant ‘no borders’ whilst standing in the middle of a fenced of bit of private land that you need very specific paperwork to get into and if you don’t have it they throw you out… so they’re not the brightest

    7. ScreamOfVengeance on

      The UN Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, inc. East Jerusalem, and Israel thinks that the IDF are ALL war criminals .

      Edit to add video of press conference:
      https://youtu.be/to1mdVNz0Qg?si=Y4o9HRk5G4rTre6e

      Quote is from after minute 14.

      “Our finding that the basic military strategy used by the Israelis Since 7 Oct’23 leads to the inevitable conclusion that all those who have played a role in any way in the implementation of this strategy are suspected of the Commission of war crimes and crimes against humanity”

      https://undocs.org/en/A/HRC/59/26

    8. willington123 on

      Is it possible to condemn the actions of the IDF and Israel while not inciting violence on others?

      There are ways to support Palestine and the people of Gaza without wishing death on others and supporting a terrorist organisation that has stated they want to kill Jews.

      Maybe I’m the odd one out here – and I’m sure I’ll be about to find out with the downvotes coming my way – but so many comments seem to ignore the irony of wanting the deaths of some people to stop while supporting calls for the deaths of other people.

      Maybe it’s just me.

    9. SP1570 on

      Stop wasting time on a music festival and please focus on the real issue: the unattainable peace in the region and the continued suffering on both sides.

    10. Matt6453 on

      So people who organise a pop festival have questions to answer but he offers no opinion of Israel and their death squads, interesting stance for a ‘left’ wing MP.

      I think I’m voting Green next time, I’ve lost all faith in this lot.

    11. Jeq0 on

      The ironic thing is that this wouldn’t have received an eye bat had the chants been about the Russian army. Hypocrisy at its finest.

    12. NARVALhacker69 on

      It’s the IDF who has questions to answer about the ongoing genocide and ethnic cleansing of Gaza and the weekly progroms at the West Bank

    13. bravopapa99 on

      Fuck Streeting, what’s it got to do with him anyway? It’s a concert, full of creatives with opinions, something no government likes.

    14. ReginaldJohnston on

      The IDF literally murdered a British ex-marine who was volunteering for aid charity.

      A British ex-marine > some skinny conscript who’s term is just 18 months including training.

      And fyi: The marine volunteered *before* the conflict and never planned to be near Gaza.

      Let that sink in. Digest. Metabolise.

    15. Lowmen_yellow_coats on

      Fuck the IDF. Their evil knows no bounds, great work from the Vylans, they’ve just taught a new chant to a lot of pissed off people. And fuck off Wes, you’ve always been a right wing lickspittle.

    16. Strict_Counter_8974 on

      If there’s ever peace between Israel and Palestine a hell of a lot of people are going to lose the only thing that defines their entire personality

    17. clickityclickk on

      think its so pathetic the politicians of this country are losing their minds over graffiti and festival chants but conveniently shut their eyes when it comes to innocent children being slaughtered. kier starmer cries about palestine action being a terrorist group meanwhile he supports israel whose soldiers opened fire on weaponless civilians trying to get food for their families. and i’m supposed to take him seriously? bore off.

    19. TubbyIsaacs81 on

      You can ask the festival all the questions you want, it won’t answer you.

      It’s a festival.

    21. Ambivalent-Axolotl on

      Was I the only one who thought the chant meant “destroy the institution that’s carrying out a genocide” rather than “please specifically go out and murder every single soldier without trial”?
      When you keep gaslighting and silencing people who just want to stop this horror show, they’re going to get louder and the chants will probably get less nuanced. Maybe stop your party from facilitating an active genocide before you complain about people shouting stuff you find mildly unpleasant at a festival.

    22. According_Parfait680 on

      Streeting immediately after labeling the Death to the IDF chant appalling: “If we compare it to the war in Ukraine, I want Ukraine to win, but that doesn’t mean I’m going to call for the death of Russians.”

      What, even Russian soldiers, Wes? So how does Ukraine win, exactly?

      🤡

    23. JGT1234 on

      The IDF is doing some awful things in Gaza but if they didn’t exist, hundreds of thousands, if not millions of jews would have been exterminated over the last few decades by neighboring Arab nations.

      You can critique a countries military and actions without chanting for them to be put to death.

    24. InSilenceLikeLasagna on

      So much outrage over violent chants towards a military force who is currently killing tens of thousands of civilians. The pearl clutching is pathetic.

    26. Qyro on

      Musicians have been saying political and controversial shit on stage for decades. Bob Vylan and Kneecap aren’t doing anything new here at all, but it’s being treated like the worst thing in British history. Regardless of which side of the conflict you’re on, this media hysteria over it reeks of the Satanic Panic.

    27. Illustrated-Society on

      Don’t tell Streeting what the IDF have been upto if he thinks hurty words from a musical artist is ‘appalling’

      Blatant censorship and anti democracy from fake Labour. They are a sham of a political party and another stain on British politics. Shame on them.

    28. WeirdBeard94 on

      “I don’t like the situation in Germany, but I think chanting ‘Death to the Wehrmacht’ is a bit much” – melts in this thread c. 1940

    29. Loreki on

      Questions like how did a conservative like Wes Srreeting get selected by the Labour Party on the first place?