Welcome to Britain 2025: where a musician's words cause more outrage than the murder and horror in Gaza | Owen Jones

The issue of what happened at Glastonbury is obscuring the outrage about real bombs and actual death, and I think that is deliberate Let’s compare two news stories from the past few days. On Saturday, Bobby Vylan, the frontman of the rap-punk duo Bob Vylan, chanted “death, death to the IDF” – referring to the Israel Defense Forces – from the West Holts stage at Glastonbury, and members of the crowd joined in. The performance was livestreamed by the BBC.A day earlier, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz revealed that Israeli soldiers and officers had confessed that they had been ordered to shoot at unarmed Palestinians as they queued for aid. Last month, about 600 desperately hungry Palestinians, including many children, were killed this way.Owen Jones is a Guardian columnistDo you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our letters section, please click here. Continue reading...

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