And on it goes. Israeli politicians using UK media to stoke up outrage around Bob Vylan & Kneecap must be laughing their heads off at how easy it all is. I think this brings the Palestinian death toll *since the Glastonbury performance* in to triple figures. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Pathetic #british coward @mrjamesob.bsky.social now blames #israel for his country's complicity with #Genocide
The broadcaster you hand over to daily is as much to blame as anyone in the media on this subject!
Oh god,isn't she just!
Hatred breeds hatred
Isn't what the media is doing is being anti-Semitic themselves? After all they are equating all Jews, and Israeli citizens, of being exactly the same as the genocidal terrorists in the Israeli army while Bob Vylan just wants the end of the IDF organisation.
Very odd. The IDF claims to be fighting a war of "self defence" which includes genocide amongst a host of other war crimes & "the free world" does not act. A musician calls for a section of the Palestinian people to fight back & is branded as anti-semitic, the police get busy & our govt shouts.
Don't we have an Israeli puppet as PM? Palestine action T shirt will get you 14 years in prison - Labour has gone mad! We should be thankful to PA for demonstrating, in a non threatening way, how pathetic security was at Privatised Brize Norton.
Anything Kneecap did or said pales into insignificance against what is happening in the West Bank and Gaza. Starving and murdering people searching for food is a war crime and I cannot understand how a so called socialist government fails to call it out.
82% of Parliament are progressive MPs that includes Greens, Lib Dems, SNP, and tons of Lab. Their silence like the UK Christians is deafening.
I know invoking Hitler is to lose the debate but it's so like the 1930s. A bunch of more-or-less well-meaning middle-aged men totally out of their depth against a war-monger.
UK government and establishment [and that includes the 4th estate] communicating loud and clear the dont give a fudge whether the idf is committing war crimes or not
Not sure what your point is. Both stories were reported on the BBC. Bob Vylan, Kneecap and the Israeli government all express a desire to hurt and kill people. The difference is that only the latter have the means to do so. Nevertheless we can still criticise all of them and try to stop them.
Useful idiots
Mass murder virtually every day. Israel is a rogue state.
The other story about Israel and the IOF is a report from a whistle-blower about orders to murder people queuing at aid stations Obviously Fascists murdering Children is less newsworthy than a singers complaint about those murders hurting the feelings of the Genocidal Fascist regime murdering kids
Yes. That's not been widely reported at all! I was called a liar when I pointed that out. Apparently I made it up.
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They are WAR CRIMINALS. And out media is complicit in their acts. Children died while Vylan and Kneecap said words. And THEY are the bad guys?
But someone said a nasty thing James. It would appear that bombs and bullets are perfectly ok but harsh words aren’t. It’s hardly “sticks and stones” is it?
I see a lot of what happened in Glasto as a stunt, outrage farming is a problem. The media were hanging about waiting to pounce and so they did, what made it so obvious, was that the corporate media rocked upto a predominantly leftist festival to promote Reform. Meanwhile, lives were taken.
Lives taken, homes destroyed, families upended and nowhere in the media was there critique of Israel's war crimes and genocidal actions. It just speaks to how deeply entrenched the rot has became. Genuinely disturbing times.
They can pick off the easy targets, but they can not turn the nation. I have a fairly large social group and many are neutral while many are anti Israel but not ONE is pro Israel.
The Kneejerk reaction from the BBC turning it into a big political story rather than a Rock Concert, ( a type of Football chant). Keep pointing out the hypocrisy!
Nothing should surprise about elitist BBC. They colluded with Brexit lies, platformed the far right headbangers, we're silent on UK highest Covid dead in Europe, now cover 0.07% of Farage Reform MPs to exclusion of 82% of progressive MPs. Ignored Tory UK becoming 2nd most unequal society in Europe.
And Labour win power and all Lisa Nandy does is ignore the built in conservative power of Gibbs etc the PM Johnson put in BBC. Nandy can now just sit and watch how Farage will savage the BBC too. What a disappointment she's turned out to be. Daily Mail on legs at BBC goes on. The Right run media
I know what I am outraged about, and it ain't musicians speaking out against genocide!
Same here - much of Australia's mainstream media willingly toes the Israeli line, conflating criticism of Israel & the IDF - or support of Palestinian self-determination - with antisemitism, and ignoring the Palestinian death toll.
The IDF is committing genocide, plain and simple. Not even trying to hide it. They are starving people, shooting at those desperate for food, killing babies. Western governments around the world supply or are supplying the IDF. But the problem is a band chanting death to the IDF.
I hate to repeat myself, but it really did come as a massive surprise to learn that not all genocides are bad and not all war crimes are wrong...
No mention, ever, multiple ngo’s, including Israeli, concluding it’s an apartheid state; opinion polls showing most don’t give damn about Palestinians; or Israelis celebrating the murder of Israeli Arabs. en.idi.org.il/articles/59568 www.btselem.org/topic/aparth... www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
No mainstream politician or media outlet has spent one second on reporting or condemning this rogue state. I would love to know, why is that? Here is the video of Jewish Israelis celebrating the death of Arab Israelis. Utter scum. x.com/Jafarfarah1/...
Yeah, but Bobby Vylan said HURTY WORDS. And that's much, much worse. And on the subject of artists at Glastonbury....isn't it ironic?
We are easily distracted and Bob Vylan and Kneecap have done nothing but stoke their own egos and help Israel politicians divert attention.
So everyone needs to just shut the fuck up about it then? Good one.
Very unfair to Kneecap. They've been actively supporting projects on the ground in the West Bank long before the current slaughter. It would have been easier for them to shut up, given the crest of interest building after their album and the movie, but they didn't.
No.
Will the same journalists panicking over Bob vylan be reporting to a police station for investigation over the reports they wrote about the death of the tory party around last year's election?
This government is more concerned about offending the sensibilities of depraved monsters who film themselves killing children for fun to post it on TikTok with dance than they are about the fact that children are being murdered. All we need to know to understand who we're dealing with. Despicable
war criminal Netanyahu doesn’t need a UK media excuse to murder women and kids. as for laughing their heads off at how easy it all is, that was happening long before Glastonbury. Stramer and UK Govt happy to post on Musk’s hate speech Nazi Twitter app.
The simple truth is probably Bob V and Kneecap don't give a fuck for the people of Gaza. It's career enhancing posturing which would best have been ignored.
Don’t be daft Simon. Speaking out against genocide clearly has costs and nobody dies it lightly.
I don't understand how, in the absence of any religious, ethnic or cultural reference, starting a chant calling for the death of, not an individual but a genocidal army can be regarded as anti-semitic?
Starmer and his money taking bunch of parasites he calls his spineless cabinet are standing alone with their media, they are a disgrace to humanity
In two weeks time bands loyal to the British regime will march through Glasgow, Liverpool and Belfast singing about being "up to their knees in fenian blood" and that catholics should "surrender or you'll die". Not one of them has ever, or will ever, be arrested or investigated or proscribed.
Hamas must have known the fall would 🫴 me after they attacked,murdered and stole 1200 civilians on 7OCT2023.. so many civilians have paid the price for the attack.. think Hamas knew it would cause all of this? Hamas degraded.. Hezbollah degraded.. Islamic Jihad degraded.. Iran degraded..
And Israel turned into a pariah State by Netanyahu.
And meanwhile Israeli ministers call Palestinians "subhuman", while Starmer and the world media say nothing.
The western journalists are more upset over words than the starving of babies, burning people alive.
None of those outraged seem bothered by the systemic murder of men, women and children through bombing, shooting, starvation and destroying all the hospitals. Not a peep from Starmer for that.
Their silence makes them look pro infanticide.
What other conclusion to be drawn?
Thanks for your support for the humanity ❤️. You’re one of the finest.
Wait till he goes from acoustic to electric. They'll really go after him then.
Sadly you are engaging (unusually) in whataboutery. Yes there is Israel inflicting genocide in Gaza. That does not give a free pass to hate speech in the UK, obviously. If that’s somehow excused, what’s next?
In what way is calling for death of an organisation [not call for killing of individuals] hate speech? Don't recall similar outrage when death of Soviet Union or Stazi were called for & celebrated? IDF soldiers admit being given orders to kill innocent people [incl children]. Where's the comparison?
You sure it's whataboutery? Surely holding both things up to the light simply reveals that those in power are afraid of what the (ill-judged) chant reveals - that the silence of the people in power and lack of action has become more obscene than any shout from a punk at Glastonbury could ever be.
The *death toll* is genocide. Daily ethnic cleansing. Murder of defenceless, homeless brown men, women, children. Also of humanitarian people who lost their lives trying to help them. I switch off from back to back pile on about protestors who call this what it is. Ffs. LBC, except James, all day
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Lisa Nandy more exercised about words than deaths and prejudicing any fair investigation or trial
Do you know what Lisa Nandy's job is?
To be a minister and act in a ministerial way. If there is a police investigation that means not prejudicing it with your own comments.
So that's a no, then.
@rachelshabi.bsky.social offers a powerful corrective to the hypocritical and completely disproportionate outrage that the Glastonbury episode has evoked. Outrage that precisely mirrors the disproportionate, asymmetrical, and genocidal response of Israel to a cruel terrorist attack. Humanity weeps
Is that Iain Dale? Notable that he only wants to use Rachel's Jewish identity to feed into the narrative that Britain has a real anti-semitism problem because the crowd are all behind Bob Vylan calling it out, but she is determined to keep focus on the media hypocrisy of this moment.
We seem to have a government of handwringing bystanders who target those who call out the atrocities rather than those who commit them. x.com/implausibleb...
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“But do your condemn Hammas?” The media speak as one mind on this. They never question.
On Monday alone the confirmed death toll in Gaza was 105, 39 people dying in this single attack. There was birthday party for a child taking place among normal customers when the Israeli attack took place.
Journalist Wadeaa Abu al-Saoud with one of the children killed: www.threads.com/@wadeaa_.9/p...
"Our cries have risen in the face of an unjust world. You target our body, but you will not silence our throats." www.threads.com/@wadeaa_.9/p...
Israel seems to be at war with children. Hug your own very close.
Let's not pretend that starmer gives a shit about Palestinian children. He doesn't give a shit about British ones & he's the bloody PM.
Not sure about that. It's likely people behind him. He is being restrained by his advisers like McSweeney who think if Lab look like tough Tories they win. That's collapsed now as Farage heads for No 10. But yes UK as a Christian nation need to express utter horror at daily genocide of so many kids
He's the PM though and he is the one who appointed McSweeney. If he's seen as the one pulling the strings then what does that say about starmer's leadership? He's either weak or endorses McSweeney's behaviour. He's a red (barely) Cummings and we all know how that ended.
Possibly, I guess I'm searching for something. The horror now that after 12 months Farage would walk into No 10 tells us so much about how Labour has mishandled their narrative. There are good things like NHS boost,min wages up twice,teachers/nurses not leaving,homes, infrastructure,energy plans.
Honestly I think labour's biggest liability is starmer. There's a widespread sense of distrust among the electorate and he's alienating so many groups: 50s women, pensioners, the sick & disabled, ethnic minorities, crazy because reform voters aren't going to switch to labour anyway.
But the media would ensure whoever ran Lab would be demonised. The democracy/progressive struggle always confronts elite UK power from SE. They attack the person not the movement. Starmer's govt are easy target as too weak with English media & have no narrative unlike Blair,Thatcher or Farage,Trump
I have no idea what starmer stands for and I don't think I'm alone. He's so unclear & sends mixed messages all the time. The speech about strangers in the land, he said it & I'm sure must have read it, then apologised and said it was on him, then threw the speech writer under the bus! Can't do both!
Starmer needs to sack most of his advisers,PR, media and comms ppl and higher some tabliod hacks like Tony B., Cameron & Johnson did. A govt that let's BBC platform so disprortionately Farage is a weak, cowardly losing whose grip of media is equal to running a parish magazine.
The real Tory/Farage right wing happy they've got most of Leftists attacking our Lab govt after 14 Tory sick yrs. But Corbynites were never pragmatists. What does it matter that we are getting to 4M on Sick pay unlike our European friends? That's less taxpayers' money going on skills,edhealthcare
Yes I know Tony Blair was lucky as economy was better & he had Murdoch papers,Sun, Times,ST, & FT,even Express. He won 3 times because he was inclusive of all groups in UK including middle class & Scotland & Wales & N.Ireland & workers. He had vision,oratory & strong men who kept daft BBC in line.
Now you have a BBC who let 0.09%(Reform)MPs dominate airwaves while 82% of MPs from all progressive parties across all UK ignored. Lisa Nandy should go because it shows a lack of grip & this disproportionate politics suits the wealthy & media elites who prepare for Farage's rule.Lab are Lambs to ..
Things are changing but Farage would win easily if GE this week after Lab won a year ago after 14 yrs of Tories. That is Lab's crisis & Starmer must remove those advisers like McSweeney who thought following a Conservative way would work. Its not & its an existentialist moment for UK Lab movement.
I don’t think Glastonbury was the reason the IDF did this. Do you?
No. But the Nova Festival massacre does.
Read what the OP was saying before you go off on a tangent.
How many Palestinians should be killed to atone for the festival?
Do you have a figure in mind? And I am not prosecuting a war. Netanyahu is, and he doesn’t have a figure in mind. I am not even sure victory is his ultimate aim
Zero.
And I think he'd be happy for war to be a permanent state. It would keep him from prosecution.
Of course he would but I suspect the Israeli public will chuck him out soon
As long as others do not give Netanyahu a good reason to remain in power and in control of the armed forces
Palestinian kids killed in cold blood by the IDF and Israelis feign outrage from some singer, truly disgusting
Very Orwellian.
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Daily Mail: "How dare the BBC broadcast something that could be construed as incitement to violence!" Also the Daily Mail 👇
No. I agree thatthe Ghaza is genocide is disgusting and unspeakably cruel. But allowing people to call for killing of IDF forces is equally wrong. They should be prosecuted and punished. Yes we should be more outspoken on calling for Israel to be punished. But, not by stooping to their level.
It‘s called war. Started by your beloved Palestinians. They can surrender anytime.
And on it goes... I wonder if any Israelis in the world have a problem with this? Now might be a good time to speak out.
Netanyahu is a junkie. War keeps him out of prison... The whole world knows this! So why the fuck don't you world famous JEWS do something about it?
One of my closest friends is Israeli and lives in a large city in Israel and is an activist against the genocide. A lot of Israeli citizens protest it but they are ruthlessly suppressed and the media doesn’t report protests inside or outside.
Yes, I must have missed the media and government outrage over the killing of innocent people.
Let’s all buy bank Merch Vylan and Kneecap We need to start dressing in our army uniforms!
More evidence that this is a genocide: open.substack.com/pub/chrished... Backed up with links. #isreal #genocide #idf
I don't get it. If it's so obvious what's happening there, why are governments e.g. UK not outraged? WTF
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It's largely a topic I avoid but I've not met a single person who is on Israel's side in this.
Well said Sir
absolutely sickening. Israel has a lot to answer for. and their administration needs to all go to the Hague
Why was nobody outraged about the Prodigy performing INVADERS MUST DIE?
At least you're trying to keep things in perspective. While so many other journalists can't or won't.
I thought there was no food in Gaza? So how are all the restaurants and cafes full with customers?
Food aid is handed out from places with the facilities to cook it. 🙄
I think they sell hot food too. There are a lot of options. I don’t think they would cook food aid. They are specialist restaurants.
"Were"
And John Lydon tearing into kneecap. 🤣🤣. The irony.
I don’t get it. Everyone should hate the IDF. Everyone should hate Zionists.
I don’t recall those same people raising objections to Michal Waldiger’s Knesset speech on Gaza and the ‘Palestinian issue’
We need Israel out of downing Street immediately. They have more leverage than the citizens.
It won’t work Israel. The more we see of this interference the more depraved you look. You succeed only in undermining our government and mainstream media before our eyes. #defundbbc
Absolutely, and they can't trigger the UK media without Labour support. Mustn't forget that piece of the jigsaw.
Palestinian lives matter. I hope I haven’t gone too far.
UK media planning to knee-cap Kneecap
Let me guess, the cafe was above an extensive tunnel network? Or maybe the cafe was a member of Hamas? Bob Vylan had the right idea re: the IDF.
Are going to the next Bob Vylan concert at the Hamas open-air theater in Gaza? We are traveling by boat from Greece. She's got her costume picked out already
That the IDF is being used as the tool of a government whose leading members have warrants outstanding from the International Criminal Court is a matter of fact.
Seems pretty obvious they are taking out a location that is used by journalists to communicate with the outside world. But I doubt I will hear about this in the news.
When I say I’m the news I means as a talking point on tv or radio
How do people like Bob Vylan become radicalised?
Distract, deceive, deflect. It all takes our energy and attention away from the real story. Israel is committing genocide.
And the REALLY sick part about this is the fact that all our politicians constantly defend and excuse the IDF and israels war crimes. The majority of us want our leaders to condemn them. The fact that they wont forces us to have to chant at festivals. We are a voiceless majority. this must end
carrying on from that quote you just read out about bodies of children being dragged out of the rubble....the weapons used to murder those children are largely supplied by us.
I feel like we are living in an alternate universe. Israel kill thousands. When a music band calls them out on it. They are turned into the bad guys.
Yet you called one of the most erudite, moral people in the music industry a "Pillock" this morning. Doing their job for them no?
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It is same voodoo behind this closing line of every BBC article and broadcast about Gaza with all the occupation IDF Jewish terrorists army methodic butchery satanist rituals and depravity deployed in the extermination of 2.5 million sieged and starved Muslims and their children in Gaza!
Cos you have client media outlets working as propaganda lies and misinformation mouthpieces for the Zionist occupation like the BBC with actual idf terrorists in their studios and editorial rooms vetting the output and guessing as if the IDF and Mossad terrorists are regular people and not criminals
‘Boo-hoo 😢 somebody said bad things about the Israel army’ as said army continues its genocide.
But will Starmer be as outraged as he was about a performer at Glastonbury?
He is a puppet on a string for right-wing elites. It's the Daily Mail that has poisoned Britain for decades & given all our media a nasty narrative which demonises the do gooders & praises the haters. The Daily Mail supported Nazis & still poisons UK with its hate of progressive changes every day
And I think Labour's crisis is they cannot articulate a way to break the Daily Mail ideology of sad modern Britain. It can not be a Corbynism...it's got to be appealing to most. Its got to be a tough challenge a combo of Harold Wilson,Tony B & Gordon B. Social Democracy that leaves Brits saying Wow!
It was their Social Democracy that got Lab winning 3 times in a row.
While I like the logic of your argument, Corbynism ideas were more popular at a time than Corbyn. Ideas such as Rail, Water and Electric re-nationalisation are still popular. The Mail hated Corbyn. But Starmer is a poor salesman and was one of the most unpopular leaders to be elected.
Agreed on that. Trouble was so many appealing candidates left under Corbyn:like Andy Burnham or David Milliband. Such a pity Hilary Benn never sought fame - a brilliant orator. Whoever the Leader the media will demonise - Lab movement need to be more than the parts & look like a movement for all.
That was Tony B's glory. He was inclusive of all groups by nationality,region, South,North,like Scot,N.Ireland or middle class or working class , male, female, young, diverse & so on. No hatred like current politicians copying Trump horrors.
Do these people get reprimanded? apnews.com/video/annual...
Do they sing at Glastonbury this year?
No, but western governments give them €€billions to aid their ethnic cleansing.
Why did the BBC not show this 🤔 iview.abc.net.au/show/louis-t...
We all know who the Vylan is here. It’s not those wielding microphones.
I ask this question out of curiosity, no malice intended. Why have the Jews been persecuted and disliked for thousands of years? What is it about the them and their religion that cause this?
Police enquiry - re Glastonbury- despicable
Reasonable. Can you imagine how the fascists would react if the police refused to look into it? I’m no lawyer but I suspect they will conclude the things said don’t meet the threshold for prosecution. Time will tell.
"How the fascists would react"? Like, I dunno... fascists? Stop being so concerned about them, there's only one way to deal with them.
It’s not enough that justice is done. It has to be seen to be done. No need to give them an excuse to riot.
So that’s the reason? Not even any hezbollah staff on site?
Two pretty average performers who tbh most people haven’t heard of ,get the opportunity for a level of-publicity that their music certainly wouldn’t warrant.Now I wonder why they thought it would be a good idea to be controversial?
I've just travelled back to 1939. Will I be prosecuted for saying 'death to Hitler, death to the Nazis' or does the latest edict apply only to the Israeli state? People need to educate themselves on the definition of terrorism. Hamas are not the only 'terrorists' in the region.
I'm old enough to remember when we were all asked to feel sorry for israeli football fans shouting death to Arabs.
The world has long had a powerful moral responsibility to intervene and stop it. It has failed.
The Zionist politicians need to grow a pair and stop whining.
This is all so sad...
once we shouted #johnson-murderer we should now shout #bibi-murderer and #death-death-idf is the same the world has become #prudish #over-descent #clinical and what about: #putin-murderer ?
Was the chant To the IDF (Israeli Defence Forces - people) or To the IDF (Israeli Defence Force - organisation)?
To the IDF . that is it not like the daily mail saying he said Israelis . The IDF is made up from 4 original Zionist terrorist groups .
Yet not one single word of condemnation from any side of the current political heavyweights. The silence from the critics is almost deafening. And not for the first time. In fact looking at the number of Palestinian deaths the last 3 weeks Israel haven't even bothered to make their usual claims
It’s British politicians virtue signaling over claims of antisemitism in the BBC and not Israeli politicians.
Killing refugees ✅ Saying nasty things about the army killing the refugees ❌
Western governments are willingly allowing Israel to use “anti-Semitism” as a “get out of jail free card” and are unwilling to acknowledge that Israeli military are openly carrying out a genocide in Gaza as well as committing war crimes.
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Bob Vylan got the money 💰 for this performance. He can't leave to perform just like that!
My revulsion knows no bounds.
And your fascist prick of a colleague Ferrari is no better.
I don’t mind James but that wrong un and a few others on the station cause me major distress .
Sorry don't get what's wrong with it?
One is a person saying borderline illegal things and the other is a government killing dozens of random people daily. One is headline news which needs urgent action, the other ...
Ok so it's that you don't think the first one is newsworthy. Fair enough
I think they are both newsworthy but one in a minor case for a slap on the wrist and the other is legalised genocide. They are the same subject and have apparently equal column inches yet the one first one is a protest at the second one.
Also ‘rescuers say’ makes it sound like there’s a chance they’re not telling the truth.
I take your point
You don't see how obscene it is that our Prime Minister is making a big fuss about a musician saying starting some chants that, admittedly, are in bad taste, whilst at the same time the target of those chants are murdering innocent civilians and not a word is uttered?
Thought you were talking about the web page
Ah OK, no it's the ongoing failure to call out these atrocities for fear of being branded anti-semitic. It's not anti-semitic to say Netanyahu is a disgusting human being.
As I've said elsewhere, I think this was a deliberate choice by someone at the BBC. "Show, don't tell". Here's the bullshit non-story about a bunch of twats complaining about someone protesting genocide, oh, hey, what are the odds, here's a perfect example of that there genocide they were on about.
Who knows. Maybe there is a resistance at work in BBC. I'd like to think so. Surely they can't all be Farage frotters and Zionazis.
Omg. This is beyond parody
And below an article on Police forces failing to investigate Coercive Control properly, which is where I'd rather my tax money was spent, policing that would help people.
I saw this too and it reminded me of an old Mel Smith sketch where he was reading the news (paraphrasing) ‘And finally, several Israeli’s were slightly hurt today by a remark made by a rapper 3,000 miles away from them whilst they were bombing a sea front cafe in Gaza.’ Unbelievable!
Do you think anyone at the BBC actually sees and hears what we do?
Hi James, can you get Lisa Nandy on air to take her to task?
now that i would love to hear! nandy REALLY annoyed me yesterday. How dare she speak about it in the way she did,
Using parliamentary privilege to slander.
There must be at least 1 Hamas fighter for every building (inc schools & hospitals) in the Gaza Strip. Of course, Israel's IDF doesn't target Palestinian civilians, just bombs them in their beds & shoots them as they rush to get food aid.
This is not Barry and not ticket ladies and gentlemen this a a descendant of apes and pigs invading Jewish terrorist posting this Jewish terrorists propaganda and obvious lies from the invading cowardly scum bunkers in occupied Palestine zzzz
It still staggers me that the UK press and politicians make a singer leading a chant the big story and ignore the continuing genocide
Hard to argue it's being ignored by the bbc. Some framing is off but there are regular stories.
That's very charitable of you towards the BBC. They never refer to it as a genocide and they regularly discredit the sources 'Claimed the Hamas led health ministry' whereas the Israeli forces and government are treated as if the speak nothing but plain truth
I know so many seniors who are appalled at the killing of Gaza families every day that they find watching the News gut wrenching. For decades, we had empathy for Jews. Now we can not watch the news. Christianity & our Western Democracy colludes in Isreali Genocide. It's just pure evil.
They are operated from Israel it seems.
try telling fogarty about it on the radio....she will say "what about hamas", "what about oct 7th"....and when you say genocide, she will deny that's an accurate description, claiming she is only doing her job....The media have their noses pressed up israels backside
It's because the UK Govt is complicit. They've taken part in it.
Follow the money
You do know that most of the media hate the current Government?
It’s not been used because the govts position didn’t change at all when the new lot came in. From a govt point of view it’s completely bipartisan
Its pantomime
They hate Moslems even more.
They hate it less than they hate Corbyn.
They aren't showing it.
It's OK to not like this government and still acknowledge how the media is biased against it. Look at how the last by-election in Scotland was covered, for example. Labour won it, but it was hailed as a Refund or whatever victory.
well yes. they loved the tories because that's who run the media. Rupert Murdochs empire didn't vanish with his retirement. and Rupert is not going to promote labour. ever.
Rupert and Blair were allies.
The media are just as bad. Puppets to the Zionists.
I despair of our lame politicians who continually fail to call out what is for all to see a genocide in Gaza and lawless activity in the occupied West Bank.
Your call is important to us, someone will be along shortly, to shout “ANTISEMITISM!!” at you. Thank you for your patience. 🤔
It’s just so sad that what’s going on in Gaza isn’t being called out by many nations and as usual it’s the ordinary people that suffer. The media outrage over Glastonbury is just serving the distraction that is craved
Might be a step too far by the establishment this time.
It was the juxtaposition of these two stories which caught my eye.....
Seems like they are more bothered by chants against death squads than they are by the existence of the death squads in the first place!
I wonder how many Israelis were killed since Glastonbury. I haven't checked the figures but I'd assume a lot less than Palestinians?
The more the establishment tries to ban something (even as simple as Relax - thanks Mike “Reform UK” Read) the more popular it becomes
Wish you would include a bit of context about 1948 in one of your introductions to this abominable topic. There is a certain type of Labour centrist politician who apparently finds it impossible to accept that it is possible to be both Jewish AND a far right religious extremist. (Language tempered)
The Stern Gang ( Lehi), who sought an alliance with Nazi Germany to drive the British out of Mandate Palestine, spring to mind.
