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.
