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Sunday, June 29, 2025

06/29 Links: Nuremberg at Glastonbury; The 28 victims killed by Iranian missiles; Shin Bet busts major Hamas cell in Hebron; Saudi king rewards 1,000 Palestinian terrorists’ relatives

From Ian:

Melanie Phillips: Nuremberg at Glastonbury
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.

That’s because the cause of “Palestine” is founded entirely upon the aim of annihilating Israel, murdering Jews and stealing from them their own history in the land of Israel. It is no exaggeration to hear in the delirious chanting at Glastonbury the chilling echoes of the rallies at Nuremberg.

For it is only Jews, and the Jewish state, who are singled out for such murderous frenzy. The Glastonbury crowds aren’t chanting “Death to the Chinese Communist Party” or “Death to Russian forces” in protest at the persecution of the Uighurs or the onslaught against Ukraine. They chant for the murder only of those who have been defending their people against genocidal annihilation for the past 20 months.

In any moral universe, Bob Vylan would be arrested and charged with incitement to murder. The police say they are looking into this. Take your time, officers! What bit of “Death to the IDF” don’t they understand? The same bit, probably that they haven’t understood of “Death to the Jews” or “Globalise the intifada” that’s been chanted on pro-Hamas demonstrations these past 20 months.

Glastonbury’s organisers say they are appalled and that the act crossed a line. Yet they have sat by while a series of other performers swelled the hysteria of which the Bob Vylan incitement to murder was the inevitable outcome.
Glastonbury and the BBC must answer for platforming anti-Israel hate
The BBC has played no small role in this moral decay. It has frequently failed to uphold even basic journalistic standards in its Israel coverage and has employed staff who openly support Hamas or have made antisemitic remarks.

That institutional failure continued at Glastonbury. The slogan calling for the death of the Israel Defence Forces was broadcast live by the BBC as part of its festival coverage. This was no accident. Editors knew exactly what was being said. They issued a mealy-mouthed trigger warning – describing chants for death as merely “discriminatory” and containing “strong language,” as though the problem were the duo’s expletives – and then carried on broadcasting the spectacle, all funded by mandatory licence fees.

This is the fog of moral confusion we now inhabit: when “Death to the IDF” and “From the river to the sea” – slogans calling for the annihilation of Israel – are not treated as incitement but aired as entertainment.

To complete this spectacle, Palestine Action – a group expected soon to be proscribed under UK terrorism legislation – was also given a platform at the festival. Glastonbury claims to be a festival of love. It has become a stage for hate.

Ofcom must initiate an urgent review into how the BBC allowed violent messaging to be aired under the guise of cultural coverage. BBC management must be held accountable. Festivals or venues giving airtime to groups like Palestine Action or Bob Vylan should lose public funding and sponsorship.

A government spokesperson confirmed that Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy had raised the matter with the BBC, saying: “We strongly condemn the threatening comments made by Bob Vylan at Glastonbury.

"The Culture Secretary has spoken to the BBC Director General to seek an urgent explanation about what due diligence was carried out ahead of the performance, and welcomes the decision not to re-broadcast it on BBC iPlayer.”

Not everyone in government, however, seems to grasp the gravity of the situation. Health Secretary Wes Streeting offered a masterclass in moral obfuscation. Yes, he condemned the chants as "appalling" and criticised both the BBC and Glastonbury.

But he then pivoted to what he claimed we really should be talking about this week in the context of Israel and Gaza – namely, a set of accusations against Israel, which he proceeded to list.

Irrespective of the accuracy of his accusations, this was not the moment. He went on to lash out at the Israeli Embassy, which had quite reasonably issued a statement condemning the incident, scolding it to “get your own house in order”.
Bob Vylan, Glastonbury and the banality of Jew hatred
If you can’t see it now, you never will. The sight of tens of thousands of people at Glastonbury yesterday joining in a spirited chant of ‘Death, death to the IDF’ was the sight of us officially becoming a very different country, I fear. One in which anti-Israel hysteria has so flawlessly rehabilitated Jew hatred that it has become unthinking, conformist, almost mundane. Something that Home Counties idiots can jive to before adjusting their hot pants and heading off to catch Charli XCX. Something that is broadcast by the BBC into millions of homes. The banality of the new anti-Semitism.

Let’s not muck about here. When punk-rap duo Bob Vylan called for the killing of Israeli soldiers yesterday – as they warmed up the crowd at the West Holts Stage for every Israelophobe’s new favourite Irish rap trio, Kneecap – they weren’t opposing war. They were calling for war, and on the one army on Earth charged with protecting Jews from genocide. The army now at war with a jihadist cult that murdered, raped and kidnapped its way through an Israeli festival not unlike Glastonbury on 7 October 2023. The army that almost all Israelis are expected to serve in. Indeed, those making excuses for that sickening call-and-response yesterday hopefully don’t know that Hamas justifies killing Israeli civilians on the grounds that they are basically all tainted by national service. That they are all enemy combatants. Death, death to that IDF?

Whether we got here by ignorance or conscious hatred is pretty much moot. The end result is British Jews – at Glasto or at home – watching thousands whoop as Jew-killing slogans are recited. Frontman Bobby Vylan also treated the crowd to a deranged rant about the indignities he suffered working for a ‘Zionist’ at a record label, because he had to listen to his boss talk favourably about Israel. I wonder if he knows that the vast majority of British Jews are Zionists. I wonder if he cares. ‘From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free’, Vylan chanted at another point in his fetid little set. Surely he knows what this means? Surely he recalls the tiny, 10million-strong nation that lies between the River Jordan and the Med, 74 per cent of which is Jewish? Surely he knows that when the Islamofascists currently menacing Israel chant it they are explicitly calling for the genocide of Jews? Bob?


These are the 28 victims killed in Iranian missile attacks during the 12-day conflict
Twenty-eight people were killed in Israel by Iranian missile attacks during the 12-day conflict between Jerusalem and Tehran — the oldest of whom was a 95-year-old Holocaust survivor, and the youngest of whom was a 7-year-old Ukrainian cancer patient.

Israel launched a preemptive attack in the early morning hours of June 13 on Iranian nuclear and ballistic missile facilities and key targets, to counter Iran’s avowed threat to destroy the Jewish state. Iran responded by firing approximately 550 ballistic missiles and around 1,000 drones at Israel. Most of the missiles were intercepted, but 36 ballistic missile impacts were reported in populated areas, including multiple apartment buildings, as well as on critical infrastructure sites, including a power station in southern Israel and an oil refinery in Haifa.

The Health Ministry said 3,238 people were treated in hospitals around the country for injuries sustained due to the Iranian attacks. Around 240 buildings sustained serious damage, leaving over 13,000 Israelis displaced. Twenty-seven of those killed were civilians, and one was an off-duty soldier at home with his family.


PMW: Saudi king rewards 1,000 Palestinian terrorists’ relatives with free Mecca pilgrimage
There has long been speculation about Saudi Arabia normalizing its relations with Israel, as part of US President Donald Trump's "Abraham Accords." However, a new reward by the Saudi king to "honor" Palestinian terrorists' families shows that the Saudi leadership does not reject Palestinian terror, nor those terrorists who murdered Israeli civilians.

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas himself "thanked Saudi Arabia and its leadership for the generous grant they provided this year to 1,000 Palestinian pilgrims from among the families of the Martyrs, the prisoners, and the wounded" [Official PA TV News, June 9, 2025]. The relatives of "Martyrs, prisoners, and wounded" – meaning dead, imprisoned, and wounded terrorists – were flown to Mecca for the Hajj pilgrimage by Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud.

This gesture constitutes a sign of "loyalty" to the terrorists, and a commitment to "constant sponsorship and honoring" vis-a-vis their families, as noted by official PA TV:
Official PA TV reporter: "As part of a generous act from Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques [Saudi King Salman], a convoy of pilgrims set out today to the Kaaba [in Mecca] from among the families of the Martyrs, the wounded, and the prisoners… This initiative expresses the ongoing support of the Saudi Arabian Kingdom for the Palestinian cause, and emphasizes its diligence in easing the suffering of the affected families... out of appreciation for them and loyalty to the Martyrs, with an emphasis on how [the Martyrs'] families will remain a subject of constant sponsorship and honoring."

The terrorists whose families Saudi Arabia chose to honor include murderers bent on destroying Israel.

One of the honored pilgrims featured on official PA TV was Saif Abu Qandil. His brother, Fatah terrorist prisoner Yusuf Abu Qandil, together with an accomplice, shot and murdered Israeli civilian Victor Kreiderman and wounded his wife Emma in 2004. Saif Abu Qandil, who was flown to Mecca together with his sister, thanked Saudi Arabia for the "gesture" [Official PA TV, June 4, 2025].
Saudi Arabia honors terrorist murderers, sponsors family members’ trip to Mecca

Ireland Becomes First European Country To Introduce Law Banning Imports From Israel
Last December, Gideon Sa’ar, Israel’s Foreign Minister, announced Israel would close its embassy in Ireland, citing Ireland’s “extreme anti-Israel policies.”

“The actions and antisemitic rhetoric used by Ireland against Israel are rooted in the delegitimization and demonization of the Jewish state, along with double standards. Ireland has crossed every red line in its relations with Israel,” Sa’ar said. “Israel will invest its resources in advancing bilateral relations with countries worldwide according to priorities that also take into account the attitudes and actions of these states toward Israel.”

Ireland’s Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Simon Harris reacted, “This is a deeply regrettable decision from the Netanyahu government. I utterly reject the assertion that Ireland is anti-Israel. Ireland is pro-peace, pro-human rights and pro-International law.”

Despite Harris’ protestations that Ireland’s government is not anti-Israel, the evidence suggests otherwise.

In February 2024, then-Taoiseach Leo Varadkar denounced a possible Israeli operation into the Hamas stronghold in Rafah, saying it would be a “gross violation of international law on top of all the other violations of international law which Israel is responsible for.” He continued by ripping Israel for not bowing to the wishes of outsiders, saying, “It’s very, very clear to me though, that Israel is not listening to any country in the world, I don’t even think they’re listening to the Americans anymore. They have become blinded by rage.”

In May 2024, only days after Harris declared, “I abhor the actions of the Netanyahu government regarding what is happening in the Middle East,” Ireland officially recognized a “Palestinian state.” Harris stated, “The government recognizes Palestine as a sovereign and independent state and agreed to establish full diplomatic relations between Dublin and Ramallah. We had wanted to recognize Palestine at the end of a peace process. However, we have made this move alongside Spain and Norway to keep the miracle of peace alive.”

On November 7, the Irish parliament passed a non-binding motion attacking Israel, stating, “genocide is being perpetrated before our eyes by Israel in Gaza.”

Ireland joined South Africa’s genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ). Looking into the past, in 1996, Ireland finally permitted an Israeli embassy in its country; it was the last country in the European Union to open an Israeli embassy in its own country.

As far back as 1945, within days of Adolf Hitler’s suicide on April 30, 1945, Ireland’s Taoiseach Éamon de Valera called on Eduard Hempel, the Nazi minister to Ireland, to “express his condolences.” He said, “I certainly was not going to add to his [Hempel’s] humiliation in the hour of defeat.”


Why Iran Is Now a Couple of Years from a Bomb
Based on professional evaluations, top IDF sources are adamant that Iran's nuclear program has been pushed back by at least a couple of years, maybe longer. The IDF knows for certain that it has completely destroyed thousands of Iranian nuclear centrifuges as well as almost all of Iran's sites for constructing centrifuges.

In light of the Mossad penetrating Iran with literally hundreds of agents, it is unlikely that the Iranians succeeded in moving a large amount of 60%-enriched uranium from any facility with Israel completely missing this. But IDF officials will not dismiss the possibility that, somewhere, Iran managed to hide some small amount of uranium from Israel during the war. And there are probably some centrifuges somewhere that were not completely broken.

Iran will need several months or longer to dig out what was not destroyed and several more months or longer to build new facilities. Only then can it try to restart uranium enrichment or get existing uranium to higher, weaponized levels.

At that point, Tehran will hit another wall. While Iran had been advancing in making enriched uranium into a nuclear warhead, nearly all of Iran's weaponization activities were bombed. This means it would need to redo nearly all of those weaponization activities, which on its own could take a couple of years.

IDF officials have high confidence that the sheer number of areas in which they destroyed or substantially harmed Iran's nuclear program makes it nearly impossible for the Islamic Republic to carry out all of the activities needed for producing a nuclear weapon in less than a couple of years. They also believe the destruction of so many nuclear processes may set back Iran even longer.


Iran says it poses no threat to IAEA chief after newspaper called for his execution
Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations said Sunday that Tehran poses no threat to the head of the UN nuclear watchdog nor its inspectors, after an Iranian newspaper claimed that Atomic Energy Agency chief Rafael Grossi was an Israeli spy and called for him to be executed.

Iran’s ultra-conservative Kayhan newspaper recently alleged that unspecified documents showed Grossi to be an Israeli spy.

“It should therefore be officially announced that he will be tried and executed upon arrival in Iran for spying for the Mossad and participating in the murder of the oppressed people of our country,” the newspaper said.

“No, there is not any threat” against the inspectors or the director general, Iran’s Ambassador to the UN Amir Saeid Iravani said in an interview with US broadcaster CBS. The ambassador said inspectors in Iran were “in safe conditions.”

Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, however, called Grossi’s request to visit Iranian nuclear facilities that were targeted by American and Israeli airstrikes “meaningless” and “possibly malign in intent.”

The IAEA issued a report shortly before Israel attacked Iran earlier this month saying that Tehran was carrying out covert nuclear activities with material not declared to the UN watchdog.
Iran could resume uranium enrichment in ‘matter of months,’ IAEA chief says
Grossi admitted to CBS: “We don’t know where this material could be.”

“So some could have been destroyed as part of the attack, but some could have been moved. So there has to be, at some point, a clarification,” he said in the interview.

For now, Iranian lawmakers voted to suspend cooperation with the IAEA and Tehran rejected Grossi’s request for a visit to the damaged sites, especially Fordo, the main uranium enrichment facility.

“We need to be in a position to ascertain, to confirm what is there, and where is it and what happened,” Grossi said.

In a separate interview with Fox News’s “Sunday Morning Futures” program, Trump said he did not think the stockpile had been moved.

“It’s a very hard thing to do plus we didn’t give much notice,” he said, according to excerpts of the interview. “They didn’t move anything.”

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Saturday underscored Washington’s support for “the IAEA’s critical verification and monitoring efforts in Iran,” commending Grossi and his agency for their “dedication and professionalism.”

The full Grossi interview will air on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” on Sunday.


Israel's offensive on Hamas is stalled in the sands of Gaza - what's next for the IDF?
The challenges the IDF faces
First of all, many reservists were called up for Gideon’s Chariots, and five divisions were sent to Gaza. However, they didn’t move quickly to defeat Hamas.

It seems one of the divisions left Gaza, and another, the 252nd, rotated out so that the 99th could rotate into Netzarim.

The IDF faces other challenges. Some units have had to deal with the large crowds trying to get to GHF food distribution points. GHF has its own security contractors and workers, but the IDF still has to deal with the sectors where crowds gather. Meanwhile, in Israel, there are other issues afoot.

The government has sought to continue to help Haredim avoid service, so that tens of thousands of young men don’t have to go to the army, while reservists go back and forth to Gaza.

In the West Bank, IDF soldiers are increasingly being attacked by Israeli citizens, creating an impossible situation there as well. The IDF is told it is fighting a multi-front war.

However, with Iran weakened and Hezbollah at the mercy of the Israeli Air Force, the ground forces' multi-front war looks different than before. Hamas still controls half of Gaza. It holds 50 hostages.

It loses commanders but doesn’t fall apart. It is killing and murdering Gazans who resist its rule, including various militias and tribes who oppose Hamas rule.

Much of Gaza is in ruins, and most of the people are displaced. The temporary help that GHF has accomplished by providing some 50 million meals is working, but it won’t go on forever.

Until Gideon’s Chariots are freed from the sands of Gaza, it’s unclear what will come next.


Soldier KIA in Gaza, bringing IDF wartime toll to 880
An Israel Defense Forces soldier was killed battling Palestinian terrorists in the northern Gaza Strip, the military said on Sunday.

The slain man was named as Sgt. Yisrael Natan Rosenfeld, 20, from Ra’anana. He served in the 601st Combat Engineering Battalion of the 401st Brigade.

On Tuesday, seven IDF troops were killed when their armored vehicle was struck by an explosive.

The soldiers were identified as Lt. Matan Shai Yashinovski, 21, from Kfar Yona; Staff Sgt. Ronel Ben-Moshe, 20, from Rehovot; Staff Sgt. Niv Radia, 20, from Elyakhin; Sgt. Ronen Shapiro, 19, from Mazkeret Batya; Sgt. Shahar Manoav, 21, from Ashkelon; Sgt. Maayan Baruch Pearlstein, 20, from Eshhar; and Staff Sgt. Alon Davidov, 21, from Kiryat Yam.

The same day, the military announced that a soldier was killed by an Iranian missile launched at the Jewish state. Cpl. Eitan Zacks, 18, from Beersheva, was a member of the IDF’s special operations Multidimensional Unit, aka Unit 888 and the Refaim (“Ghost”) Unit.


Shin Bet busts major Hamas cell, arrests 60 in Hebron
The Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) on Sunday announced a major operation against a Hamas network in the Judean city of Hebron, describing it as “one of the largest uncovered in recent years.”

According to the Shin Bet, the network had planned to carry out attacks “in the immediate future.” The operation was conducted in cooperation with the Israel Defense Forces and Israel Police.

More than 60 terrorists were arrested during the operation, and 22 weapons were confiscated.

The Shin Bet also reported on Sunday that investigators had solved a deadly shooting that took place 15 years ago at the Bani Na’im junction near Hebron, in which four Israelis were murdered. No further details were provided in the statement.

Separately, the Israel Police announced on Sunday the arrest of five relatives of the terrorist who carried out the 2023 attack at the Eli gas station in Samaria.

The five, from the village of Urif, were arrested “on suspicion of incitement and supporting terrorism.”

The arrests followed the distribution online of a video in which the family members praised the deadly Eli attack, in which four Israelis were murdered and four others wounded by two Hamas-affiliated Palestinian gunmen. Both perpetrators were killed.


IDF arrests terrorists in southern Syria
Israel Defense Forces troops operating in southern Syria have arrested several suspected terrorists during raids on weapons caches, the military announced on Sunday.

According to the IDF, soldiers from the 210th “Bashan” Division are actively deployed in the region, with the mission of neutralizing any threat to Israeli citizens, especially those living in the Golan Heights.

The division’s area of operations extends from the summit of Mount Hermon—referred to as its “crown”—down to the tripoint border where Syria, Jordan, and Israel meet, the statement added.

Following the collapse of the Bashar Assad regime in December amid a Sunni jihadist-led uprising, Israel took control of portions of the Syrian side of the Golan Heights. The move was aimed at creating a security buffer to protect Israeli territory from hostile elements operating in the Syrian power vacuum.

During a visit to the Syrian Hermon in January, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz declared: “The IDF will remain at the summit of the Hermon and the security zone indefinitely to ensure the security of the communities of the Golan Heights and the north, as well as all the residents of Israel.”

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has stated that he will not permit forces loyal to Syrian leader Ahmed al-Sharaa, also known as Abu Mohammed al-Jolani—a former Al-Qaeda terrorist—to deploy in the area south of Damascus.

Dorothy Shea, the acting U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, said earlier this month that al-Sharaa’s government ought to “begin discussions with Israel on a non-aggression agreement and subsequently begin border dispute resolution discussions.”

Al-Sharaa “should take necessary steps to ban and deport Palestinian terror groups,” as well as cooperate with relevant agencies on chemical and nuclear-weapons issues, the U.S. envoy added.


The Officer Tatum: Iranian Woman Drops BOMBSHELL on Gaza, Hamas, and Israel | Interview with Elica Le Bon
In this eye-opening interview, I sit down with Elica Le Bon—an Iranian activist and fierce advocate for truth—to unpack the lies surrounding Gaza, Iran, Israel, and antisemitism. She explains the dark roots of the Islamic regime in Iran, why 85% of Iranians want freedom, and how Hamas and Hezbollah are just puppets of a radical ideology. Elica breaks down the difference between Islam and Islamism, why the Left and Right are both falling for anti-Jewish propaganda, and how “Free Palestine” has become a trojan horse for extremist goals. This isn’t about politics—it’s about survival, truth, and rejecting the deadly ideology infecting our world. You need to hear what she says about how the West is being tricked into aiding its own collapse. One of the most powerful conversations I’ve had yet.

0:00 – 85% of Iranians Oppose the Regime
1:03 – Elica’s Background and Iranian History
2:36 – The Shield of “Islamophobia”
3:54 – Islamism vs. Peaceful Muslims
6:06 – Iran, Hamas, and the Fight Against Israel
8:23 – Why Israel Is Fighting Back
10:49 – Why America Should Support Israel
13:01 – The Brutality of Iran’s Regime
16:05 – The Rise of Real Antisemitism
18:53 – Scapegoating Jews: Then and Now
22:08 – The Mimetic Theory and Global Hatred
24:45 – The Truth About Israel’s Tolerance
26:01 – How Ideological Subversion Targets the West
28:03 – How Anti-Israel Conservatives are Falling for the Trap
30:00 – Hamas: “Freedom Fighters” or Caliphate Builders?
32:39 – The Origin of the “Free Palestine” Narrative
36:13 – Final Thoughts: Free Palestine from Hamas
37:12 – Follow Elica LeBon




How did an anti-Zionist become major contender for NYC mayor?
For many, the victory of Zohran Mamdani in the Democratic primary for NYC mayor shook their senses. How, in the city with the largest Jewish population outside of Israel, could an outspoken anti-Zionist who calls Israel an apartheid state win an election?

Especially striking is that his victory came because of a plurality he won in parts of Brooklyn and Manhattan that have a large Jewish population. Any way you slice it, a lot of Jews voted for a man who would arrest Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if he came to New York.

Yet, if you look at the data, this isn’t a surprise at all. At the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs, where we have been researching Jewish-American and American public opinion for years, a clear trend emerged. Liberal Americans, including liberal Jewish-Americans, have abandoned reflexive backing of Israel, in its place supporting a slate of values associated with progressive positions.

The environment, immigration, human rights, and opposition to what they see as a dangerously authoritarian president tops the list. They also claim to strongly oppose antisemitism, and here is where the issue gets quite clouded.

Progressives, including soon-to-potentially-become mayor Mamdani, are against, even vigorously, antisemitism. They say it repeatedly. But they do not see being anti-Israel as being antisemitic, and they take every opportunity they can to separate the two. Their anti-Israel stance is not simply “being critical of the current government” in Israel. They are against the concept of Israel itself – what we would call “anti-Zionism.”

They see support for a state that is by definition “Jewish” as inconsistent with their value system of equality for all, and against “nationalism.” In their eyes, there is nothing irrational or inconsistent with being an “anti-Zionist” and wanting to fight antisemitism, even if one holds “Jewish values” dear.

In 2020, our research has found a solid minority of Jews who see identification with Israel as problematic. That minority expresses sentiment that Israel committed war crimes in Gaza, that Palestinians deserve the same sympathy that Israeli does and that when it comes to voting, they would prefer candidates like Rashida Tlaib or Ilhan Omar over a “moderate Republican.”

This minority of about 25-30% of Jews seems to be the ones attracted to Mamdani and no doubt helped secure his victory.


Jake Wallis Simons: Middle-class youngsters chanting for death shows how sick Britain now is
Depressingly, this has become the new normal. There literally is no evil so dark that it cannot find enthusiastic support on the Western Left, so long as that evil first wishes death upon the Jews. Astonishingly, that principle holds even if the evil happens to wish death upon us second. It’s true what they say: antisemitism is a sickness and at bottom it is a hatred of ourselves.

Whether Bob Vylan, the dreadlocked rapper who led Saturday’s version of Orwell’s Two Minutes Hate, was breaking the law is beside the point. Legislation is limited when the culture moves beyond it. Even the BBC’s attempts at decorum – they had refused to broadcast the performance by Kneecap, the Irish band which has supported Hamas and Hezbollah and demanded that people kill their local Tory MPs – collapsed when put to the test. Shamefully, the “death to the IDF” chant was beamed out by our national broadcaster into millions of homes.

On Thursday, Sir Michael Eavis, the founder of Glastonbury, defiantly insisted that people should “go somewhere else” if they did not like the politics of his festival. By Saturday, we saw what those politics meant: a carnival of bloodthirsty radicalism that would have been unrecognisable in the Britain of our parents.

Jeremy Corbyn may have epitomised the vacuity of the Gaza Left by praising a banner saying “build bridges not walls” that was literally pinned to a wall, but the joke is wearing thin. In May, a Palestine activist murdered two Israeli diplomats in Washington DC. Last week, Palestine activists vandalised RAF aircraft vital to our national security. Yet still the simpering BBC fawns over the Eavis clan.

For years, sensible people have scratched their heads at how the Left can have come to support jihadis. At the Glastonbury festival of narcissism, however, it has become difficult to tell them apart.


UKLFI: BBC reported to police for broadcasting Bob Vylan’s death chant from Glastonbury
The BBC has been reported to the police for broadcasting Bob Vylan’s chant, wishing Death to the IDF.

UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI) reported the BBC to Avon and Somerset Police for committing a criminal offence by broadcasting a programme involving threatening, abusive or insulting sounds whereby racial hatred is likely to be stirred up, contrary to section 22 of the Public Order Act 1986.

Pascal Robinson-Foster, whose stage name is Bobby Vylan, was allowed to chant “Death Death to the IDF”, live at Glastonbury yesterday afternoon, to encourage thousands of people in the audience to follow with the same chant. He also engaged in an antisemitic rant about being employed by a Zionist. The gullible audience, many of whom were waving Palestine flags, reminded some of Nazi rallies in the 1930s and 1940s.

The Palestine flags had been sold by enterprising vendors at the entry to West Holts, the stage at Glastonbury, in anticipation of the performance by Kneecap, the pro-Palestinian Irish band, whom many were saying should not be allowed to perform.

It is likely that the duo Bob Vylan, who were performing immediately prior to Kneecap, were also cashing in on the sentiments of the audience, and on the expectations of the media in relation to Kneecap, by purposely creating their own media storm with their offensive chants in order to raise their own profile.

The chants led by the band Bob Vylan included “Free Free Palestine, Death, Death to the IDF” and “From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free”.

These chants stirred up hatred against Israelis and Jews, endorsing the idea that they deserve death.

The BBC could easily have stopped broadcasting this performance, and switched to a different stage. However, it failed to do so, allowing the broadcast of this hate speech to continue.


State Department Looks To Revoke Visa For British Rappers Who Chanted ‘Death To The IDF’
The State Department is looking to revoke the visa for Bobby Vylan, a British rap duo whose performance at a festival over the weekend went viral for his virulent anti-Israel lyrics that included a call for death to all Israeli soldiers.

A senior State Department official told The Daily Wire that it is “already looking at revocation” of their visas ahead of a roughly twenty-city tour through the United States, with performances planned in several major cities, including Washington, D.C.

“As a reminder, under the Trump Administration, the U.S. government will not issue visas to any foreigner who supports terrorists,” the senior official said.

Vocalist Pascal Robinson-Foster uses the stage name Bobby Vylan for his punk duo Bob Vylan—a name that nods to legendary Jewish singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, who released the pro-Israel song ‘Neighborhood Bully’ in 1983.

While performing at England’s annual Glastonbury Music Festival — which was live streamed on the BBC — Vylan incited his crowd of thousands to chant, “Death, death to the IDF.”


Anti-Israel bigotry has become ‘mainstream’ around the world
Spiked Online Editor Tom Slater says anti-Israel bigotry has become “mainstream” around the world.

The Glastonbury Festival faced backlash after artist Bob Vylan chanted anti-IDF slogans.

It has sparked outrage among UK officials and concerns for Jewish safety.




Hamas increased torture against dissident Gazans while world focused on Israel, Iran war
Some Gazan activists believe that Hamas has been taking advantage of Israel's conflict with Iran to increase its campaign of intimidation while the world is focusing elsewhere, the Telegraph reported on Sunday.

A lot of this violence is carried out by Hamas’s “Arrow” unit (“Wahdat Sahm”).

Ahmed al-Masri, one of the organizers behind the anti-Hamas protests in the north of the enclave in April and May, stood bearing a banner saying "Hamas does not represent us," in video footage seen by the Telegraph.

In the video, al-Masri attempted to spur on other Gazans, "fanning the flames of dissent while many of the people around him nervously averted their faces to avoid being identified on camera."

However, earlier this week, pictures of al-Masri on a stretcher with a "frightened and helpless look in his eyes," and his "legs a bloodied mess," emerged, the Telegraph noted.

Al-Masri was abducted by Hamas terrorists in Beit Lahiya and was brutally tortured, multiple sources told The Telegraph.

His feet had been "deliberately broken with large stones and iron crowbars," and he was "shot in the legs," the sources added.

"They shot two people in front of him, then they shot him in the feet. They broke his feet with large stones and crowbars and threw him out in the sun for an hour. Then they brought an ambulance and took him to the hospital, where they beat him on his feet inside the ambulance," a source told the Telegraph.

"He’s in an extremely bad way," one of al-Masri's friends said. “We are trying to do our best for him, but people are terrified of speaking out in case they’re next."

This is part of an "escalating wave of bloodshed unleashed by Hamas against the ordinary Gazans it purports to represent," The Telegraph added.


The suspended doctor selling sick notes on demand
A suspended doctor is selling sick notes online to customers who want to go on holiday, take months off work for alleged Covid infection or care for an ill dog, The Telegraph can reveal.

Asif Munaf, who was suspended from the medical register over anti-Semitic social media posts, runs Dr Sick Ltd, a company that offers same-day sick notes for as little as £29.

Without any face-to-face or phone consultation, Telegraph reporters were able to obtain medical certificates granting five months off work for Covid, six weeks for anxiety over a sick pet, and four weeks of home working to enable them to go on holiday abroad.

All three notes were issued within hours of the requests being made. A dossier of evidence has been shared with the General Medical Council (GMC), which regulates doctors, and the Care Quality Commission (CQC), the healthcare watchdog.


Jordan refuses to play Israel’s under-19 basketball team in World Cup
After weeks of speculation, Jordan’s national basketball team informed the international basketball federation, FIBA, that it will not field a team against Israel on Sunday in the 2025 Under-19 Basketball World Cup due to the ongoing war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

Israel will automatically gain a 20-0 technical victory over Jordan. It defeated hosts Switzerland handily 102-77 the night before in its first-ever U-19 World Cup game, while Jordan fell 69:79 to the Dominican Republic, the other team in its group.

During Israel’s game against Switzerland, a protester burst onto the court waving a Palestinian flag.

While the Jordanians could have been booted from the contest for their action, FIBA chose not to take measures at this time in order not to disrupt the first-round playoffs in the contest, which started Saturday.

The Israel-Jordan game had been scheduled for the evening at the Cooly Arena in Lausanne.

“On behalf of the Basketball Association, I regret the decision of the Jordanian team,” Israel Basketball Association chairman Amos Frishman said in a statement.

“I had hoped that the Jordanians would still come to play to show everyone that things can be different, especially during this time. I believe that sports is a bridge between peoples and cultures and not a political arena. I hope that in the future there will be no doubt about holding these games.”

Two weeks ago, the Kan public broadcaster reported that Jordanian officials were coming under pressure from a campaign by pro-Palestinian activists to boycott the game against Israel after the two teams were put in the same group. However, no formal announcement was made. At the time, a Jordanian source told the broadcast that a boycott would aim to “prevent a big political storm.”


Their labs destroyed by a missile, Weizmann scientists publish innovative blood cancer study
Days after their labs were severely damaged in an Iranian ballistic missile attack on June 15, Weizmann Institute of Science researchers published new findings in Nature Medicine that could lead to an innovative blood test for detecting a person’s risk of developing leukemia.

The test might also potentially replace the invasive diagnostic procedure of bone marrow sampling.

Nobody was killed by Iran’s missile strike on the world-leading research institute in Rehovot. But the strike destroyed around 45 labs, some containing researchers’ entire life’s work, which might take years and tens of millions of shekels to rebuild.

Established in 1934 by Israel’s first president and prominent scientist Chaim Weizmann, the Weizmann Institute is a world-leading multidisciplinary research institution in the natural and exact sciences.

Two days after the strike, the prestigious European Research Council announced the 281 recipients of its Advanced Grants. Of the 12 grants awarded to Israeli universities, six went to the Weizmann Institute. In the life sciences category, Weizmann secured four of the 81 grants awarded by the ERC.

Iran is believed to have targeted the institute in response to Israel eliminating several nuclear scientists as part of its effort to prevent Tehran from obtaining a nuclear bomb.

For the 12 days of Israel’s Operation Rising Lion, Iran fired over 500 missiles and 1,000 drones at Israeli population centers, killing 28 people, wounding thousands and leaving thousands more homeless.

“We can’t go into the lab for the next few years,” said lead researcher Prof. Liran Shlush, speaking to The Times of Israel by phone.

However, the institute has arranged a “small room” so that his team of researchers, including Prof. Amos Tanay, Dr. Nili Furer, Nimrod Rappoport and Oren Milman, can continue their work, he said.

Immediately after the attack, “international colleagues and friends called to offer their help,” Shlush said. “There are a lot of good people around the world.”


Trump hails Lubavitcher Rebbe’s ‘blessings’ on 31st death anniversary
U.S. President Donald Trump wrote a public letter to the Chassidic Chabad-Lubavitch movement on Sunday, marking the 31st yahrzeit (death anniversary) of its leader, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson.

“Melania and I are honored to send our greetings on the occasion of the yahrtzeit of the Lubavitcher Rebbe,” the president wrote.

Hailing Schneerson as “one of the most dynamic and influential faith leaders in modern history,” Trump noted the rabbi’s “tremendous impact on American spiritual life,” even after his death.

“As time has worn on, his many blessings have only increased,” the president said, noting the Rebbe’s contributions to U.S. criminal justice reform and the social services Chabad-Lubavitch provides to Jews around the world.

“When I visited the Ohel on the anniversary of the terrible attacks of October 7, I drew strength and inspiration from the Rebbe’s legacy,” Trump continued, referencing visits he made to Schneerson’s grave site in Queens, N.Y.

“When Edan Alexander was returned to his loving parents earlier this year, after an unimaginable ordeal in the hands of Hamas, the entire country felt the power of the Ohel and the Rebbe’s enduring example,” he said, in a reference to Israeli-American hostage Alexander’s release from captivity in the Gaza Strip on May 12.

“As is frequently cited in the Talmud, the Rebbe lived by the principle that when you save one life, you save an entire world,” Trump wrote, stressing his commitment to world peace and combating Jew-hatred.

“In doing this, we will restore our country to its tradition of greatness and usher in a new Golden Age for the entire world,” the president continued, concluding: “This, I believe, is the Rebbe’s legacy.”




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