Almost 21 months after the Nova Festival, memory and reminder of the nearly 400 butchered, raped, burned, abducted, should have been marked at every self-declared ‘love and peace’ festival around the world, with a clear call for the return of 50 human beings who continue to languish in Gaza hell, in standing violation of law and morality.
Instead, the 2025 inversion of fact, law, and morality has exposed precisely the opposite. The normalisation of expressed exhilaration of Ivy league professors and students echoing that of the barbaric savages who live-streamed their war crimes and crimes against humanity – spread like brush-fire, choosing the Butcher of Tehran as “the right side of history” on the streets of London, even as the criminal Islamic regime arrests and executes hundreds in Iran.
“Death, death, to the IDF” chanted by Bob Vylan and thousands of festival-goers in ecstatic rhythm on a festival central stage and live-streamed by BBC for mass consumption and infection of millions - echoed dark chapters of history.
They are chilling evidence of the warning of the late Former Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, that “antisemitism is the most reliable sign of a major threat to humanity, freedom, and the dignity of difference.”
Glastonbury is all about peace, love and celebrating those raped, burned and butchered - Michal Cotler-WunshGetty Images
Turns out the follow-up performance by Kneecap, under review for outright support of Hamas and Hezbollah terror proxies of the criminal Islamic regime in Iran, (still) designated as such in the UK, was just a warm-up.
“While Zionists are crying on socials, I’ve just had late night (vegan) ice cream”, Bob Vylan’s message following what should have shaken festival goers and BBC public broadcasters’ tax-paying audiences who witnessed the unleashing of hate, was yet another escalation of the ambient antisemitism that garners support, not condemnation.
Anti-Zionism - a ‘modern’ strain of an ancient, ever-mutating hate that becomes lethal when normalised, in political, legal, educational, cultural, and media spaces – has taken hold again.
After decades of systematic hijacking of the secular religion of human rights and international institutions that turned Zionism into racism, Israel into an apartheid state, and the Jew among nations into an entity that commits genocide, the antisemitism genie has been unleashed.
It peddles ancient blood libel inciting cold-blooded murder in the name of “Free, free Palestine”, that cares not for anyone’s freedom, rather ‘justifies’ murder of two young Israeli diplomats outside the Washington Holocaust Museum, and a Holocaust survivor in a Boulder, Colorado weekly rally for the release of 50 human beings held in the Gaza hell underground terror infrastructure (longer than the UK tube) built with international ‘humanitarian aid’ from countries “committed to combat antisemitism and all forms of hate”.
"Death, death, to the IDF", the Israel Defense Forces, is a call for the murder of all Israelis, young and old, Jew and non-Jew, serving to defend a country with mandatory conscription, needed because of openly declared intent to annihilate ‘the small devil’, fueled and built by the criminal Ayatollah regime in Iran.
A regime intent to build an alternate reality on the rubble of our civilisation, that has impoverished the people of Iran for 46 years to build nuclear and ballistic capabilities proven to do precisely that in 12 days of war in Israel. Incidentally, its genocidal intent extends to the other ‘small devil’, the UK, and the ‘big devil’, the USA.
The chants at Glastonbury wished death on almost every single Israeli child in a new rendition of a genocidal virus, but don’t be mistaken.
The tsunami of antisemitism that erupted and became mainstream around the world in the aftermath of the worst attack on Jews since the Holocaust, launching a 21-month multi-front war intent to annihilate ‘the Jew’ among nations, is not (only) about Israel or Jews.
Once again, it exposes the collapse of morality and cowardice, unable to unequivocally condemn terror and tyranny without a “but” at the end of the sentence. Once again, the proverbial Jew among nations - demonised, delegitimised, applied double standards to, barred from the equal place it was meant to have - is (only) the frontlines of a raging existential war of barbarism vs civilisation.
An eighth front of a raging existential war that manifests in the normalization of anti-Zionism – that denies Israel’s right to exists, in any borders, justifying intent to annihilate ’the Jew’ among nations, and anyone supporting it - sounds sirens for the normalisation of the most egregious criminal violators of human rights…in the name of ‘justice, and vegan ice cream.
This is not only a war on Israel or its supporters. It’s a war on all who cherish life and liberty. The criminal Islamic regime of Iran didn’t only encircle Israel with a genocidal ring of fire - it embedded its tentacles in societies to incinerate them from within.
History recalls that appeasing tyranny and terror never brings peace. It brings dishonour and guarantees war. That is the paradigm that collapsed on and since the October 7 attack that pitted barbarism and civilisation.
For the criminal Islamic regime in Iran and its genocidal terror proxies Hamas, Hezbollah, Houthis…human tragedy is the strategy.
They don’t just tolerate civilian suffering, they exploit it - intentionally embedding and using human beings as shields, sacrifices, bargaining chips. To paraphrase Churchill, our civilisation has the choice between dishonour and war. Anyone choosing dishonour as ‘the right side of history’ will have war.
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