Melanie Phillips
Substack, June 29, 2025
“We are watching the performative moralisation of mendacity and murderous hatred.”
Another inflection point has been reached in Britain’s embrace of cultural suicide.
The Hamas-led atrocities against Israelis on October 7 2023 threw down a challenge to the west. Did it support civilisation or barbarism? On Saturday, the Glastonbury festival provided an unambiguous answer. It turned itself into a death cult.
A rap duo called Bob Vylan shouted “Death to the IDF” and then:
Hell, yeah, from the river to the sea, Palestine must be, will be, inshallah, free.
The crowd of several thousands, many waving Palestine flags, roared their approval and took up the chants “Death to the IDF and “Free Palestine from the river to the sea”. They also chanted:
I heard you want your country back? Shut the f*ck up (you can’t have that).
The lead rapper also launched into a foul-mouthed rant about Zionists and a Jewish record company boss for whom he had worked.
The IDF has Arabs, Druze and others serving in its ranks. But the vast majority are Jews, and it is the defence force of the world’s only Jewish state.
So what happened at Glastonbury was that thousands of young people — the coolest, hippest young people who are into peace and love and the brotherhood of man — were chanting for the murder of Jews, beneath a forest of flags that transmit a similar message to the Nazi swastika. ….SOURCE