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Tuesday, December 23, 2025

12/23 Links Pt1: Deport the Hate Preachers. Now.; Trio convicted in UK for terror plot to kill hundreds of Jews; The warrior Jews who terrified Rome

From Ian:

Tony Abbott: Deport the Hate Preachers. Now.
For years, the leftist mindset has seen Jews as possessors of “white privilege” and Israel as an exemplar of “settler colonialism” and therefore as “oppressors” – hence the absurdity of “Queers for Palestine” and the insistence, even from ministers in the Albanese government, that October 7 should be seen “in context”.

What else can explain the government’s increasingly harsh denunciations of Israel, its alacrity in issuing visas to largely unvetted people from Gaza, its secret repatriation of “ISIS brides”, and its recognition of Palestine in a massive concession to the “river to the sea” protesters?

The basic problem with the Albanese government is the leftist instincts that constantly distort its moral lens.

Hence the government’s inability to have an envoy against anti-Semitism without also appointing one against an almost non-existent Islamophobia; the PM’s apparent greater comfort in Beijing than in Washington; and the government’s inability to open its mouth without acknowledging “country”, or the neurotic flying of three flags as some kind of atonement for the original settlement of Australia.

Maybe the Bondi massacre will turn out to have been a “road to Damascus” moment, with Anthony Albanese and his ministers henceforth ruthless and relentless in monitoring hate preachers and closing them down if they utter so much as a word from the Koran urging the killing of Jews; in comprehensively vetting visa applicants to ensure that their beliefs and their social media history really are consistent with the democratic instincts Australians should be able to rely on; and in forever putting behind them any ambivalence about our country and its symbols, such as the flag, Australia Day and Anzac Day.

Never again, let’s hope, will we get from this government vacuous slogans about “our diversity is our strength”, as if there’s something embarrassing about our Anglo-Celtic core culture and our fundamental Judaeo-Christian ethos.

Yet the PM’s inability to apologise for the government’s failures, and inability to say definitely Islamist hate slogans will be as banned as nazi salutes, does not augur well.

Australia’s immigration program need not discriminate on the basis of race or religion, but it should discriminate on the basis of values if we are to last as a free and fair society.

As the citizenship pledge goes, all of us must be absolutely committed “to Australia and its people, whose democratic beliefs I share, whose rights and liberties I respect, and whose laws I will uphold and obey”.

It’s a modern version of Ruth’s biblical declaration that “your people will be my people and your God my God”. People who can’t say it, mean it, and live it, should not be here.
Did the Iranian Regime Play a Role in Australia's Hanukkah Massacre?
Hours before the Bondi Beach attack, Ahmad Ghadiri Abyaneh - the son of Mohammad-Hassan Ghadiri Abyaneh, a former Iranian ambassador to Australia - posted a cryptic message on X condemning Jewish Hanukkah celebrations as a "satanic ritual."

His post framed Jewish religious observance as a threat requiring "societal defense," citing Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's doctrine of "mobilized civil resistance" against perceived enemies of Islam.

This echoed the Iranian regime's systematic use of religious language to legitimize violence against Jewish and Western targets.

The cumulative evidence surrounding the Bondi Beach massacre strongly suggests a conducive environment shaped by Iranian ideology.

The attack should be understood as part of a global campaign of intimidation linked to state-sponsored extremist doctrine.


Trio convicted in UK for terror plot to kill hundreds of Jews
Two brothers and a third man were convicted in a court near Manchester, England, in “connection with a foiled terrorist plot intended to target the Jewish community in Greater Manchester,” the local police department said on Tuesday.

The trio aimed to “kill hundreds of innocent people” in an “Islamic State-inspired terrorist attack on Jewish communities in the north-west of England,” according to the Crown Prosecution Service.

The three hoped to smuggle four high-powered, military-grade AK-47 rifles, two pistols and 900 rounds of ammunition into the country and to use them to attack a march against antisemitism in the center of Manchester and “then to move the attack to an area of north Manchester occupied predominantly by the Jewish community,” according to prosecutors.

Sir Stephen Watson, chief constable of the Greater Manchester Police, stated that “it was clear throughout this trial that the scale of the offender’s hatred towards our Jewish community knew no bounds.”

“All too recently in Sydney, and of course here in Manchester in October, the very week before this trial began, we have felt the devastation of terrorism directed toward our Jewish community,” he said.

On Oct. 2, two Jews were killed in a terrorist attack by a jihadist on Yom Kippur at a synagogue in Manchester, England.

“A terrorist attack upon our Jewish friends and neighbors is an attack on us all and is an affront to all decent people in our country,” Watson said. “Today we are again reminded of the harm that such hate seeks to cause.”

According to the police department, Walid Saadaoui (38) and Amar Hussein (52) were convicted of planning terror attacks, and Bilel Saadaoui (36) was convicted of failing to report information about a terror attack. Saadaoui told an undercover officer, whom he thought was a fellow extremist traveler, in 2023 that he wanted to carry out a “significant terrorist attack targeting Jewish people,” according to Manchester police. According to police, Saadaoui involved Hussein in the plot and later confessed to discussing it with his brother Bilel.


Herzog to be invited to Australia in wake of Bondi Beach massacre
Israeli President Isaac Herzog will soon be invited to pay a state visit to Australia, in the aftermath of the Dec. 14 mass shooting at Sydney’s Bondi Beach, Herzog’s office said on Tuesday.

“President Herzog was invited to visit Australia by the Australian government and the Jewish community,” according to the statement.

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese “advised President Herzog that, upon the recommendation of the Australian government and in accordance with protocol, the Governor-General of Australia will issue an invitation to President Herzog to visit Australia as soon as possible,” it continued.

Herzog said that he would accept the invitation and mentioned that the President of the Zionist Federation of Australia had also sent him an official invitation, according to the statement.

Albanese said he felt “profound shock and dismay” over the terror attack, which an alleged jihadist is accused of carrying out with his father. The son survived exchanges of fire with the police, though he sustained serious injuries. His father, who was born in Pakistan, was killed. Forty people were wounded in the attack, the deadliest antisemitic incident in Australia’s history.

Herzog expressed his “deep horror and shock over the catastrophic terror attack at the Jewish community Chanukah event on Bondi Beach,” Herzog’s office said, adding that he conveyed his “profound condolences to the families of the victims and his wishes for a speedy recovery for all those injured.”

Israel’s relations with Australia, once a close ally of the Jewish state, have deteriorated under Albanese, a Labor Party politician who recognized Palestinian statehood in September, along with the United Kingdom, Canada and New Zealand. Australia has changed how it votes on anti-Israel resolutions and the United Nations, supporting language it had opposed under previous governments.


Erin Molan: Peace Through Strength — What Happens When Leaders Refuse It | Erin Molan on Fox
Erin Molan joins Fox & Friends after a deadly terrorist attack at a Hanukkah celebration in Sydney that left 15 people murdered.

Erin was on her balcony as the shooting unfolded — and she explains why this violence did not come as a surprise. In this interview, she warns that when leaders respond to extremism with words instead of consequences, hatred spreads and innocent people pay the price.

The conversation contrasts peace through strength with what Erin describes as weakness, appeasement, and political failure — drawing comparisons between leadership styles under Donald Trump and Joe Biden. Erin argues that deterrence works only when enemies believe leaders are willing to act — not just talk.

This is not just an Australian story.
It’s a warning to the entire free world.

Topics covered:
Why antisemitic violence escalates without consequences
How weakness emboldens extremists
Peace through strength vs symbolic leadership
Why elections matter when public safety collapses
Ordinary people stepping up when authorities fail


They Booed the Prime Minister at a Memorial — Erin Molan UNLOADS!
Episode 68 of The Erin Molan Show reflects on a week that changed Australia.

At a memorial for the Bondi victims, the crowd booed Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. Erin Molan explains why she won’t condemn it — and why this moment marked a breaking point.

The episode includes Erin’s reflections, her speech inside Parliament House, and her on-stage interview with a 14-year-old hero, followed by a separate interview on online threats and accountability.

00:00 Episode 68 – Erin reflects on the week after Bondi
02:05 The PM booed at the memorial — was it warranted?
04:17 “Unity isn’t enough”
08:19 On-stage interview with Chaya (14-year-old hero)
15:30 Erin’s speech at the Rally for Light (Parliament House)
21:20 Interview




Albanese accused of being ‘very slippery’ as he dodges Royal Commission
The Australian's Foreign Editor Greg Sheridan discusses the Labor government dodging a Royal Commission into the Bondi Beach terror attack.

“(Anthony Albanese) is being very slippery about the state Royal Commission,” Mr Sheridan told Sky News Australia.

“The bigger need is for a Royal Commission into antisemitism.

“The unwillingness to do that, I think, is because so much contemporary antisemitism comes from the left of Australian politics, and he would be embarrassed.”


Gina Rinehart seen visiting Bondi memorial
Sky News has obtained exclusive footage of mining magnate Gina Rinehart visiting the Bondi memorial this week.

Ms Rinehart can be seen laying flowers.

In a statement to Sky News, Ms Rinehart said her visit had been deeply moving.


Vampire Diaries star Nathaniel Buzolic blasts Albanese in heated encounter at Bondi vigil
Australian actor Nathaniel Buzolic blasts Prime Minister Anthony Albanese for his inaction in addressing the antisemitism crisis in Australia.

“Why is not all of Australia yelling at this prime minister?” Mr Buzolic told Sky News Senior Reporter Caroline Marcus.

“The last two years, he’s had warning after warning after warning.”




Police say they could not keep Australian Jews safe at proposed Bondi vigil outside Al Madina Dawah Centre in Bankstown
NSW Police has said it could not guarantee the safety of Australian Jews if they were to hold a vigil for Bondi Beach terror attack victims in Bankstown, Western Sydney.

Australian activist Drew Pavlou contacted authorities to submit a form to hold a vigil for victims of the Bondi Beach terror attack, but was told it would be unsafe.

Sky News understands that the police said they would not be able to keep attendants of the vigil safe if they held an event outside the Al Madina Dawah Centre.

Mr Pavlou had proposed a “completely peaceful interfaith gathering” to show unity against extremism and welcomed “Jews, Christians and mainstream Muslims”.

However, NSW Police said it would be a “grave mistake” to hold a vigil and warned that taking Jewish people to a place of Muslim faith could cause a breach of the peace.

In an email seen by Sky News after the exchange, police said any vigil at the site would be unauthorised because the notice of intention was not lodged within seven days.

The police also said that “any such assembly planned for the near future may cause a risk to public safety which would place an undue strain on local police resources”.

Mr Pavlou told Sky News he was "extremely concerned" that there appeared to be "no go zones" in Sydney where the police could not protect people from Islamist extremists.

"My understanding of this is that the police cannot protect Jewish and Christian Australians from extremists in some suburbs of south west Sydney," he said.

"Can Australia still be considered a sovereign country if parts of our largest major city no longer operates under Australian law?"


‘Heartless’: Pro-Palestinian protesters continue hateful chants after Bondi massacre
Sky News Senior Reporter Caroline Marcus says the “heartless protesters” are continuing their pro-Palestine agenda after the Bondi massacre.

Ms Marcus said it’s “absolutely sickening” to hear people call for globalising the intifada at the protests.

“We saw the ‘Australianising’ of the intifada at Bondi Beach a week ago.”




Ask Haviv Anything: Episode 70: The warrior Jews who terrified Rome, with Barry Strauss
Between the outbreak of the Jews’ Great Revolt against Rome in the year 66 CE and the final suppression of the Bar Kochba Revolt in 135, the Jews of the Roman Empire constituted the empire’s single biggest headache. None of the countless conquered peoples controlled by that world power had ever rebelled quite so often or for so long.

Jewish memory, largely forged by the rabbinic account of these revolts as doomed failures, tends to minimize their scale and impact and the chances they had for success.

But a new book by Prof. Barry Strauss, a military historian specializing in the Greco-Roman period, argues that the Jewish revolts against Rome were not quite the folly that later generations of Jews would judge them. The Jews had a longstanding military tradition, skill and experience at irregular warfare, and good reason to hope that the Parthian Empire - itself home to a significant loyal and supported Jewish community - would come to their aid. Indeed, the first battle between the Jews and the Roman legions occupying Judea ended in a dramatic rout of a Roman legion.

Few subject peoples frightened the great empire quite as much or for as long as the stubborn Jews.

Prof. Strauss joins the podcast to talk about this astonishing saga of Jewish courage and military prowess - as well as the internal divisions and foolish decisions that ultimately doomed their cause.

Strauss is the Corliss Page Dean Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Bryce and Edith M. Bowmar Professor in Humanistic Studies Emeritus at Cornell University. He has written over a dozen books on ancient Roman and Greek history.

His newest one is “Jews vs. Rome: Two Centuries of Rebellion Against the World’s Mightiest Empire.” It was published earlier this year.

Chapters
00:00 Introduction to Barry S. Strauss and His Work
04:46 Jewish Rebellions Against Rome: A New Perspective
09:47 The Military Strategy of the Jewish Rebels
14:49 The Role of the Parthian Empire
20:37 The Fall of Jerusalem and Aftermath
25:06 The Diaspora Revolts and Their Significance
27:03 The Roman Conquests and Jewish Rebellions
30:34 The Bar-Kochba Revolt: A Messianic Challenge
34:10 The Aftermath of Revolts: Roman Strategies and Jewish Survival
36:13 The Role of Rabbis in Preserving Jewish Identity
41:59 The Complex Relationship Between Jews and Romans
46:41 The Shift of Jewish Cultural Centers
49:41 Lessons from Jewish History: Unity and Identity


Jonathan Sacerdoti: Impossible? Israel did it anyway — Dan Schueftan explains the strategic breakthrough and what's next
Condemned by mobs on the streets of the West, denounced by governments across Europe and beyond, and vilified by the United Nations and its satellite institutions, Israel might nevertheless be in a stronger strategic position than at any point in its history.

Two years after October 7th, Israel’s international standing has deteriorated even as its regional power has expanded. What appears in Western capitals as isolation and moral failure is understood very differently in the Middle East, where strength is measured not by approval but by the capacity to act, to endure condemnation, and to defeat enemies who interpret restraint as weakness.

In this conversation, Jonathan Sacerdoti speaks with Dan Schueftan, Head of the International Graduate Programme in National Security at the University of Haifa, about why Israel is emerging from this war in a dramatically improved strategic position, despite unprecedented hostility from Western opinion.

Schueftan argues that Israel has dismantled Iran’s regional architecture piece by piece, humiliated Islamist movements across multiple fronts, and forced Arab regimes to confront an uncomfortable reality. Their own survival now depends less on Western guarantees and more on a strong, feared, and determined Israel.

The discussion moves beyond the battlefield to examine why Europe has drifted from strategic thinking into ideological paralysis, why progressive politics treats self defence as a moral failure, and why Israel’s greatest strength lies not in its political leadership but in a society willing to fight, endure and rebuild without illusions.

👁‍🗨 Watch if you want to understand why Israel’s unpopularity in the West has coincided with a historic consolidation of power in the Middle East, and what that reveals about the condition of Western civilisation.

💬 We Discuss:
🧱 Why legitimacy in the West matters less than deterrence in the Middle East
🔥 How Iran’s proxy network was degraded through sequential confrontation
🛡 Why fear, not affection, is the foundation of regional stability
🏛 How European politics abandoned strategy for moral exhibitionism
🧠 Why progressive ideology treats weakness as virtue
👨‍👩‍👧 How Israeli social resilience outperformed political leadership
⚔ The shift from reactive defence to pre emptive security doctrine


This Alliance Is Being Broken — And Almost No One Sees It
Episode 69 of The Erin Molan Show features an important conversation with Yael Eckstein, President and CEO of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, on why Christians and Jews must stand together as extremist ideology and online narratives attempt to divide them.

At a time when the American right is fracturing over Israel, Yael explains what’s actually happening beneath the noise — why this division matters, who benefits from it, and how ordinary people can respond with action, clarity, and courage, not just outrage.

Erin and Yael discuss:
• Why Jews and Christians are being targeted together
• How younger generations are being shaped by narrative warfare
• The difference between anger and effective action
• Why unity — not silence — is the real counterforce

The episode then closes with much-needed light relief and sharp insight from comedian Ami Kozak, whose satire exposes hypocrisy and propaganda through humor.

⏱️ CHAPTERS
00:00 Why this moment matters
02:12 “Do something effective, not just angry”
05:41 Why Jews and Christians are targeted together
09:28 The divide on the right — what’s really driving it
13:54 Why young people are losing historical context
17:32 Faith, family, and rebuilding values
21:08 “Hineni” — choosing action over outrage
24:10 Ami Kozak on satire, truth, and resilience
31:40 Final thoughts


‘Demonstrably Untrue’: Victor Davis Hanson Rebuts Tucker Carlson’s Israel, Qatar Claims
Tucker Carlson favored putting America’s strategic relationship with the Gulf states, most namely Qatar, ahead of Israel, arguing that the Jewish state was a "completely insignificant country” with “no resources,” during the Doha Forum earlier this month.

Victor Davis Hanson responds to Tucker Carlson’s claims that Israel offers little strategic value to the United States, laying out Israel’s cultural importance, democratic legitimacy, military cooperation, and technological innovation—and why America benefits directly on today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words.”




ADL decries Megyn Kelly for blaming Bari Weiss, Ben Shapiro for Jew-hatred
The Anti-Defamation League decried podcast host Megyn Kelly for blaming Bari Weiss and Ben Shapiro, both of whom are Jewish, for causing antisemitism.

In an interview with Vanity Fair magazine, Kelly said Weiss, editor-in-chief of CBS News, and Shapiro, co-founder of the Daily Wire, “are making antisemites.”

She added that “Tucker is not making antisemites. They are.”

Shapiro named Kelly in his speech on the opening night of Turning Point USA’s America Fest in Phoenix on Dec.18. He said that the former Fox News and former NBC News host, who now has a podcast with a very large following, has withheld criticism of the podcaster Candace Owens, who regularly makes antisemitic statements and blamed members of Turning Point for killing the student movement’s founder, Charlie Kirk, on Sept. 10.

Shapiro did not mention Israel in his speech.

“Megyn Kelly’s recent comments cross a dangerous line,” the ADL stated. “Accusing Jews of ‘making antisemites’ blames Jewish people for the hate directed against them—a classic victim-blaming trope.”

The ADL added that “calling Ben Shapiro ‘Israel first’ invokes the age-old antisemitic dual loyalty trope that has fueled persecution and hatred against Jews for centuries.”

The group said that it has “documented time and again how this kind of rhetoric from public figures helps normalize antisemitism and may even endanger Jewish communities.”


Gaetz slams antisemitism envoy, blames Israel for sex-trafficking probe on Tucker Carlson's podcast
Former congressman Matt Gaetz asserted Tuesday that allegations of prostitution and sexual relations with an underage girl were part of an Israeli operation to extort him because of his isolationist foreign policy.

During an interview on The Tucker Carlson Show, Gaetz denied that he had committed statutory rape, engaged in commercial sex, and used illicit drugs as alleged in a 2024 House Ethics Committee report, and that the supposed foreign influence operation was evidently fake due to not being given an opportunity to question witnesses and review records in a proper forum.

"It was an op to silence me, and Israel was involved, and I hate to say that," Gaetz told Carlson.

Gaetz related that his father had been approached by an Israeli consulate worker with images of him with underage prostitutes, seeking $25 million and aid in securing the rescue of a US spy in Iran. He claimed that the alleged extortionist had told Dilbert comic creator Scott Adams of the scheme. Ultimately, Gaetz said his family went to the FBI about the blackmail.

Fort Walton Beach resident Stephen Alford pleaded guilty to attempting to defraud Gaetz's father after having made false promises to secure a presidential pardon for Gaetz. Gaetz alleged that a second man, Real American Voice host and former Israeli consulate contractor Jake Novak, had also been involved in the plot.

"It was troubling and concerning to me that someone who was getting paid by the Israeli government was involved in a criminal shakedown of a US congressman," said Gaetz. "There was never really an effort to figure out what the government of Israel's involvement was in this matter. But you know that the government of Israel was involved because this was an Israeli government official who was involved in this."

Novak denied having attempted to extort Gaetz in a social media video on Tuesday, saying that he had never met Alford and was not connected to his crimes. Novak said that a friend of his contacted Gaetz's father for help saving the Iranian spy concurrently with Alford. Novak clarified that he had contacted Adams while he was working as a new media advisor for the consulate to discuss the allegations against Gaetz.

I have never extorted anyone, and I have never had any contact with either him or his father," said Novak.


In Deleted Social Media Posts, Michigan Senate Candidate Abdul El-Sayed Repeatedly Drew Equivalence Between 9/11 and the US Response
Abdul El-Sayed, a candidate in the Democratic primary for Michigan's open Senate seat, repeatedly drew an equivalence between 9/11 and the ensuing war on terror in since-deleted posts on X and a 2021 op-ed, arguing that both were "perpetrated ignorantly" and driven by "tribalistic grievance."

"Today, I mourn the 3K lives, 6K injuries, & infrastructural devastation in NYC, perpetrated ignorantly in the name of my faith," El-Sayed wrote on the 20th anniversary of the terror attack that claimed nearly 3,000 innocent lives. "Tomorrow, I'll mourn ~1M lives, millions of injuries, & infrastructural devastation in 3 countries, perpetrated ignorantly in the name of my country."

The numbers El-Sayed referenced appear to come from a study published in September 2021 by Brown University, which estimated that 929,000 people had been killed overseas in the war on terror. That number includes hundreds of thousands of terrorists.

In another post, which the candidate also deleted, El-Sayed shared a quote from a 2021 op-ed he wrote for the Arab American News, a paper published in Dearborn, Mich.

El-Sayed in the op-ed likened the war on terror to slavery, further arguing that the Muslim-American community was one of the main victims of the post-9/11 era.

The war on terror, he wrote, was an "echo of the worst of our history—the decimation of Native Americans, the Transatlantic Slave Trade, Jim Crow segregation, Japanese interment [sic]."


Scottish PSC co-founder found guilty of abusing Glasgow Jewish man
The Palestinian Flag is raised outside the Scottish Government Headquarters on Thursday 4th September 2025

The co-founder of the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign has been found guilty by a Glasgow Court of behaving in a threatening or abusive manner, with behaviour “aggravated by prejudice relating to religion or, in the case of a social or cultural group, perceived religious affiliation”.

Mick Napier, 78, was accused of having targeted Samuel Stein, a member of the city’s Jewish community, after Mr Stein filmed an SPSC demonstration outside a branch of Barclays on Argyle Street in the city centre.

As reported by The Herald, Samuel Stein, a member of the Glasgow Friends of Israel group, told Glasgow Sheriff’s Court that Napier had approached him and “asked me what I think about the chief spiritual leader of the Israeli Defence Force who supports the rape of comely gentile women and would I like to comment.”

Stein, who during the exchange with Napier called him a “moron”, told the court, “I believe he asked me as he knows I’m Jewish – he would have wanted me to possibly agree with what he was proclaiming this man does.

“I think he wanted to put me on the spot as a Jewish person to say that is was okay to rape gentile women.”

Videos of the verbal altercation were shown in court. When asked about the comments in the video, Stein said that “’Baby killer’ is the one I find the most insulting as I am not a baby killer and that what these people are calling me in the streets of Glasgow.”

As well as being found guilty, Napier was also fined £600 by Sheriff John McCormack. A group calling itself the ‘Gaza Genocide Emergency Committee” responded in the wake of the decision, stating that Napier’s lawyer was “launching an immediate appeal against shocking verdicts of ‘racially aggravated’ conduct handed down today at Glasgow Sheriff Court.”

There was no immediate comment by Napier on social media relating to today’s verdict. However, in October, when he was acquitted of two other charges, he tweeted that “The Zios were in court like vultures on a tree branch fantasising about a successful conviction for racism/fake antisemitism that would smear genocide opponents. Their 4th effort will also fail with similar charges on Mon 22 Dec.”
Police drop investigation into Bob Vylan Glastonbury chants after CPS advice
Avon and Somerset Police have concluded their criminal investigation into on-stage comments made during a performance by Bob Vylan at Glastonbury Festival, confirming that no further action will be taken after legal advice from the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS).

In a statement issued on Tuesday, the force said it had carried out an extensive, “evidence-led” investigation into remarks made during the band’s set on 28 June, which was broadcast live by the BBC and sparked widespread anger, particularly within Jewish communities.

Police say they shared early findings with the Crown Prosecution Service in July and received detailed guidance in October on the evidential bar required for any prosecution relating to a public order offence. Further enquiries were then undertaken, including a voluntary interview under caution with a man in his mid-thirties, understood to be the band’s frontman, and follow-up contact with around 200 members of the public who had raised concerns.

The force said it also sought advice from other police services that had dealt with comparable cases, consulted National Police Chiefs’ Council hate crime leads, and obtained further opinions from the CPS and an independent barrister. The final legal advice was received on Monday.

After reviewing all material, police concluded there was “insufficient evidence for there to be a realistic prospect of conviction”, meaning the criminal threshold set by the CPS had not been met.

While confirming the outcome, Avon and Somerset Police stressed that the decision should not be seen as minimising the impact of the comments. The force acknowledged that the chants had caused deep distress and said it had engaged directly with Jewish community representatives throughout the investigation to provide updates and reassurance.

The announcement follows earlier reporting that Bob Vylan’s vocalist, Pascal Robinson-Foster, had previously used similar language at a separate London performance weeks before Glastonbury. Police have not confirmed whether any further action will be taken in relation to that earlier event.


Greta Thunberg reportedly arrested at pro-Palestinian London protest
Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg was arrested in London on Tuesday during a pro-Palestinian demonstration, according to activist group Defend Our Juries.

A City of London police spokesperson confirmed to JNS that a 22-year-old woman had been arrested “for displaying an item (in this case a placard) in support of a proscribed organisation (in this case Palestine Action) contrary to Section 13 of the Terrorism Act 2000.”

Two other individuals were arrested earlier for throwing red paint on a building, police said.

“At around 7am this morning hammers and red paint were used to damage a building on Fenchurch Street,” the spokesperson said. “A 24-year-old man and a 38 year-old woman have been arrested on suspicion of criminal damage. They glued themselves nearby and specialist officers released them, and brought them into police custody.”

Defend Our Juries said protesters targeted the location because it houses an insurance firm that allegedly provides services to the British division of Israeli defense contractor Elbit Systems.

Thunberg, known primarily for her climate activism, has increasingly participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations.




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