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Israel, Starmer’s government and the media are fomenting a moral panic about words ‘glorifying violence’ towards the IDF, while glorifying the IDF’s all-too-real violence towards Palestinians

Keir Starmer expressed predictable outrage at the weekend that the BBC had inadvertently broadcast punk band Bob Vylan leading crowds at Glastonbury in a chant of “Death to the IDF” – the so-called “Israel Defence Forces” that have been responsible for slaughtering many tens of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza over the past 21 months.

He called the chant “appalling hate speech” – apparently unaware that there are far worse crimes than hating soldiers carrying out the mass slaughter of children. Those worse things, of course, include slaughtering children en masse.

The BBC apologised, calling the band’s comments “deeply offensive” – more offensive, apparently, than Israel bombing and starving the children of Gaza.

Glastonbury’s organisers condemned the chant, saying there was no space for “hate speech or antisemitism” – apparently assuming, wrongly, that all Jews identify not just with the state of Israel but with an Israeli military widely accused by genocide experts of committing genocidal violence in Gaza.

Police are investigating Bob Vylan, a musical duo, to see whether they have committed a criminal offence, or possibly a terrorist one. As far as we know, the same police are doing nothing to investigate some 10 British citizens known to have travelled abroad to join the Israeli military, the IDF, committing the Gaza genocide.

On Sunday, the BBC’s Victoria Derbyshire grilled Starmer’s health secretary, Wes Streeting, on remarks from the Israeli embassy in London condemning what it termed “the normalisation of extremist language” and the “glorification of violence” at Glastonbury.

Unexpectedly, Streeting avoided jumping whole-heartedly on the media outrage band-wagon, led by the Mail on Sunday, whose front page demanded the arrest of the two band members for what the paper wrongly described as a chant demanding “Death to Israelis”. The Mail, apparently, believes that all Israelis, presumably including the country’s children, are currently serving in the Israeli military.

There are four important points to make about the interview between Derbyshire and Streeting:

1. The Israeli embassy in London, like the Israeli government it represents, has precisely no concerns about the “glorification of violence” when Israel is doing either the glorifying or the violence. Israel is currently celebrating its “success” in slaughtering and maiming hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza, including huge numbers of children; attacks by its soldiers and state-backed Jewish settler militias on Palestinian civilians in the West Bank; its eradication of whole communities in Lebanon; and its bombing of residential tower blocks across Tehran, killing many hundreds.

Violence has been Israel’s signature policy for the past 21 months – and long before that. Israel has revelled in the carnage it has inflicted on populations across the region.

In a post on social media, the Israeli embassy additionally argued of Bob Vylan’s chant: “When speech crosses into incitement, hatred, and advocacy of ethnic cleansing, it must be called out – especially when amplified by public figures on prominent platforms.”

And yet public figures from Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu to British prime minister Keir Starmer have incited against the Palestinians, with Netanyahu comparing them to “Amalek”, a people the Israelites were commanded by God to exterminate, and Starmer terming the wholesale starvation of the people of Gaza “self-defence”.

Israeli officials from Netanyahu down have advocated the ethnic cleansing of Gaza. And, even more seriously, Israel has not just threatened but repeatedly carried out the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians under its belligerent rule.

2. It is beyond ridiculous for the BBC to echo the Israeli government in prioritising a harsh crackdown on words at Glastonbury “glorifying violence” towards Israeli soldiers ahead of the actual violence of genocide being committed by those Israel soldiers.

The BBC has avoided criticising the Israeli government for its actual violence – its bombing and active starvation of Palestinian civilians – and the Starmer government for colluding in that violence, or what the International Court of Justice termed more than a year ago a “plausible” genocide by Israel.

As a recent report by the Centre for Media Monitoring confirmed, the BBC has dramatically skewed its language to present Israel, the aggressor, in a more favourable light than the victim, the Palestinians of Gaza. The BBC’s own whistleblowing journalists have warned that the state broadcaster has all but banned the use of the word “genocide”, even by experts on the matter.

By arming Israel, by organising spy flights over Gaza from RAF base Akrotiri on Cyprus, and by providing diplomatic cover, Starmer has effectively glorified Israel’s slaughter of Palestinian children in the enclave. Bob Vylan’s chants of “Death to the IDF” have a far more dangerous counterpart in Starmer’s recital of Israel’s “right to defend itself” when that “defence” involves Israel mercilessly starving Gaza’s population of food, water and power.

Bob Vylan are a punk band; Starmer is the British prime minister, the man who directs Britain’s foreign policy and directs its army.

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No one, least of all the BBC, has held Israeli or British officials accountable not just for glorifying violence but for actually carrying it out on an industrial scale for nearly two years.

But the BBC is suddenly interested in holding to account two punk musicians for leading a chant – one that made a symbolic, hypothetical threat of violence – against an Israeli military carrying out the ultimate form of violence, an actual genocide. In a serious media, Israel’s supposed “concerns” about the glorification of violence and extremist language would be laughed off the stage rather than respectfully aired.

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3. Wes Streeting is being congratulated and condemned in equal measure on social media for refusing to be drawn into the Mail and BBC’s confected outrage. “I’d say to the Israeli embassy, get your own house in order,” he responded to Derbyshire. But hang on a minute. Streeting’s resistance to Derbyshire’s line of questioning was perhaps unexpected. But it also, let us not forget, serves the interests of both the Starmer and Israeli governments.

Streeting’s insistence that Israel “get its house in order” had, as he made clear, nothing to do with its 21-month slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza. Starmer is still defining the Gaza genocide as Israel’s supposed “right to defend itself”. In responding to Derbyshire, Streeting expressed concern only at what he called violent “settler attacks” in the West Bank. He said the Israeli embassy needed to “get your own house in order in terms of the conduct of your own citizens and the settlers in the West Bank”.

This was intended purely as deflection, designed to serve Starmer and Israel, the West’s key client state in the oil-rich Middle East. It benefits the UK government to make an issue of West Bank settler attacks – and present them as disorganised, random violence by individual extremists that the Israeli government is not responsible for but needs to get a firmer grip on.

By highlighting problems in the West Bank, the Starmer government can avoid addressing the genocide in Gaza and the Israeli state’s clear responsibility for that genocide. Which is precisely why in recent weeks Britain has made so much noise about imposing feeble penalties on a handful of extremist settlers and two fascist ministers in Benjamin Netanyahu’s government that represent those settlers.

Starmer and Streeting’s prioritising of Israel’s West Bank violence over Israel’s Gaza violence is a switch and bait twice over.

Most of the violence in the West Bank is not coming from settler extremists, even though they are the ones being punished by the UK. It is coming from the Israeli military, which has bulldozed thousands of homes there over the past year, driving 40,000 Palestinians off their lands.

Further, settler violence is not random. It is coordinated with Israeli field commanders, many of them settlers themselves, to uproot Palestinians so that Israel can move in Jewish settlers to colonise the land – or, in the words of successive Israeli governments, “Judaise” it.

None of this is new either. Israel has engineered and imposed a violent, apartheid system on Palestinians for decades to make life unbearable and encourage them to leave their homeland.

Second, Glastonbury’s anger-fuelled chant against the IDF was not primarily motivated by Israel’s violent actions in the West Bank. It was against the Israeli military for committing a genocide in Gaza, which the British government has been supporting. Streeting’s aim was to drag the debate on to safer territory for him and Starmer: that Britain needs to deal not with a genocide in Gaza but with a handful of violent loons in the West Bank.

Even in criticising the Israeli government for not doing enough to tackle settler violence, Streeting is still operating within the confines of a public discourse dictated by Israel, which prefers any criticism to be directed at individuals not at the Israeli state behind those individuals.

4. The BBC, the Starmer government and the Israel lobby are all delighted to play their part in this game of deflection and deception because these kinds of moral panics obscure the real issue: that all these parties are actively colluding in Israel’s genocide in Gaza. While the media and government can now have a long backwards and forwards about whether criticism of Israel’s genocidal army needs to be defined in law as a criminal offence or “terrorism”, Israel will get a free pass to continue with the real terrorism: a genocide in Gaza.

Famously, the black civil rights fighter Malcolm X observed of the role of the media: “They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that’s power. … If you’re not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” Sixty years on, nothing has changed.

(Republished from Jonathan Cook by permission of author or representative)
 
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  1. You just had to bring up Civil Rights and Malcom X didn’t you? Can’t wait to see you get shredded on here for that one.

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    , @muh muh
  2. Chris Moore says: • Website
    @NobodyImportant

    You just had to bring up Civil Rights and Malcom X didn’t you? Can’t wait to see you get shredded on here for that one.

    That’s the clue that the Marxist dupe Jonathan Cook (Marxist-Zionism is the jew modus operandi — they always make sure one escape hatch or the other is wide open) isn’t serious about shutting down jews.

    Cook is great at outing the Zionists, but then he schizophrenically spirits them into Marxism so they can begin the subversive, Satanic Zionist project — again starting on the far-left — all over again.

    I’ve come to believe that both Marxists and Zionists are ratty, Antichrist/Synagogue of Satan jews at heart. That goes for Angloids like Cook.

    You have to understand that (((Cousinhood)))-infected Angloids, like the jews, are parasites.

    Cook’s comrade here at Unz is Fat Chris Hedges. Again, great at thrashing the Zionists, but he leaves the Marxist escape hatch wide open.

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  3. @Chris Moore

    Well yeah, but I just don’t get why people have to always quote MLK or Malcom X, If not these two than it’s the necklacing Mandela they have to quote.

  4. Chris Moore says: • Website
    @NobodyImportant

    people have to always quote MLK or Malcom X, If not these two than it’s the necklacing Mandela

    They’re trying to ingratiate themselves to the dusky hordes. It’s purely a Marxist tactic. And remember, MLK, Malcom X, and Nelson Mandela were all practitioners of Black Voodoo. This sect of Hebrews are practitioners of “kosher” Voodoo — the Golden Calf Ponzi/Fed fiat/Empire of Debt racket that pays for Israeli and jewish mass murder; it paid for the Marxist-Zionist crucifixion of Christendom in the “Jewish Century”, and ongoing.

    So they’re comrades in Voodoo — ideologically, culturally, economically, and spiritually.

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  5. What’s odd is that while a chant of “death to the IDF” is beyond the pale, a UK state-backed policy of “death to the Russian Armed Forces” is apparently completely fine.

    After all, one is some people shouting a slogan, another is billions of pounds worth of lethal weaponry, military training, aerial and satellite surveillance, signals intelligence, and a lot of clever young men thinking of effective new ways to kill Russians.

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  6. Keir Starmer expressed predictable outrage at the weekend that the BBC had inadvertently broadcast punk band Bob Vylan leading crowds at Glastonbury in a chant of “Death to the IDF” …

    First, a minor point: Bob Vylan is not a punk band (punk, which peaked in the early 1980s, was almost entirely a white genre). BV’s performance hardly even rose to the ghastly level of rap. And two people are not what most would call a band.

    Second, and more important: while the degraded ritual at Glastonbury aroused much criticism in the British mainstream media, it was entirely (as far as I can tell) for the wrong reason. None of the reportage focused on BV chanting, “You want your country back? You’re not gonna get your country back!” Or on the sickbag audience enthusiastically echoing the call for their own displacement. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yxJBRavGWw
    Video Link.*

    No, the horrified gasps among the UK media’s faceworkers were because — wait for it — this BV oaf criticized Israel and its IDF. And the angry backlash centers on the Beeb’s “failure” to cut off the broadcast and demands to further limit free speech in Britain!

    It’s hard to say which is more appalling, BV’s anti-white animal act or the Jew-run Establishment’s call to block anti-Israel expression.

    * Would someone tell me how to embed YouTube videos in a comment rather than spelling out a link?

  7. @Etruscan Film Star

    Yeah, I was noticing all these things: they are not punk; they say one thing people agree with and now they’re heroes, although everything else they say is anathema; one would think it just another put-up job were one inclined to conspiratorial thinking.

  8. Anon[868] • Disclaimer says:

    DEATH to GENOCIDAL ISRAEL and Its supporters, US and UK
    Topple the genocidal assassin TRUMP, now

    Palestinian detainee Louay Faisal Turkman from Jenin has died in Israeli regime custody, with Palestinian rights groups confirming his death at Soroka Hospital after being transferred from Naqab dungeon, while his family maintains he had no prior health issues before detention.

  9. meamjojo says:

    “Is a Glastonbury Chant the Real Problem…?”

    Yes. And now, Vyland has had their US visa revoked so won’t be able to perform in the USA while Trump is president. No big $$$ for your antisemitic BS!

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  10. Here’s another quote from black civil rights fighter Malcolm X “If you meet a White person who seems nice kill him before he can turn bad.” Sixty years on, nothing has changed. Blacks still killing Whites.

    • Replies: @muh muh
  11. muh muh says:
    @NobodyImportant

    You just had to bring up Civil Rights and Malcom X didn’t you? Can’t wait to see you get shredded on here for that one.

    Perhaps it would have been better to have called him the ‘great mujahid’.

    ‘El-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz’. That was the last name he took, a Muslim one.

    During his pilgrimage to Mecca, he no longer saw whites as devils.

  12. Chris Moore says: • Website
    @Etruscan Film Star

    Second, and more important: while the degraded ritual at Glastonbury aroused much criticism in the British mainstream media, it was entirely (as far as I can tell) for the wrong reason. None of the reportage focused on BV chanting, “You want your country back? You’re not gonna get your country back!” Or on the sickbag audience enthusiastically echoing the call for their own displacement… No, the horrified gasps among the UK media’s faceworkers were because — wait for it — this BV oaf criticized Israel and its IDF.

    Why would the Marxist-Zionist-Voodoo beast ever take Christendom’s side over a faction of the Marxist-Zionist-Voodoo beast?

    You “Jewish Century” zoglodytes continue to amaze with your affectations of shock and “appaled”. This dynamic is exactly what one would expect in a dying ZOG empire: soulless zombies cheering their own evisceration. You can see the same phenomenon out of the cheering zoglodyte hordes every time SPY or SPGM reaches a new high; every time Palantir and (((Karp))) and (((Thiel))) and his boy-toy/golem JD Vance rub their kike paws together and mutter “excellent… excellent”.
    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jd-vance-trump-vp-peter-thiel-billionaire/

    The Anrichrist slouches on to Gamorrah.

  13. muh muh says:
    @Tennessee Jed

    Here’s another quote from black civil rights fighter Malcolm X “If you meet a White person who seems nice kill him before he can turn bad.”

    Misattribution.

    The following quote is attributed to the late former New Black Panther Party chairman Khalid Abdul Muhammad by both the Southern Poverty Law Center, the Anti Defamation League and blogs that support the NBPP. Muhammad allegedly said this on Feb 17, 1992 during a speech at West Chester University, PA.

    There are no good crackers, and if you find one, kill him before he changes.

    None of these sources attribute that quote to Malcolm X.

    Did Malcolm X ever truly say something to the effect of, "if you find a good white person, kill him before he goes bad."
    by inAskHistorians

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  14. @meamjojo

    No big $$$ for your antisemitic BS!

    Typical Jew like the stinking Hasbara Turd brings money into it 🤑!

    Death, Death To The IDF has become a meme and is sweeping the UK ❤️

  15. Bob Vylan also played this song on the Glastonbury festival. No original footage available, only on some kosher Pjw-video (at the beginning).

    Video Link

    Full song here.

    Video Link
    I definitely have no horses in this race. Fuck both the Zios and their rabid “anarcho” – leftist controlled opposition.

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  16. Anonymous[551] • Disclaimer says:

    Death, death to the IDF is really an excellent rallying cry.

    Since we need to keep escalating our recourse to rebellion until Jew genocide is punished, Death to the IDF is more specific and actionable than Fuck israel. Death to the the IDF is proportional to Israel’s grave crimes: it does not call for execution of all Israelis, just the overwhelming majority who personally murder and torture for the IDF.

    Death to the IDF is artistically better too, with the assonance and internal slant rhyme.

    • Replies: @BloomieXI
  17. @muh muh

    And we all know how honest and trustworthy the SPLC and the Anti-Defamation League are. Is it impossible that two people could make the same or similar statement. Go ask your boss Bibi who he thinks said it first, muhmuhjojo.

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  18. muh muh says:
    @Tennessee Jed

    And we all know how honest and trustworthy the SPLC and the Anti-Defamation League are.

    Malik had collective Jewry pretty angry at him in his time, in case you’re wondering. I don’t think they’d miss an opportunity to attribute such a quote to him prior to his assassination, and I doubt their successor organizations would either.

    Is it impossible that two people could make the same or similar statement.

    No, but the burden of proof is on the claimant.

    And, thus far, you’ve cited no source material that proves your claim.

    Nice work confusing me with dodo, though. With minds like yours, we’re bound to go places.

  19. What delicious irony-the inventors of multiracialism are being brought down by their own creation-just like Frankensteins’s monster brought down Dr. Frankenstein!

  20. The Zio propaganda machine is still trying to exploit the Nova Music Festival as a mini Shoah.

    Google searches about Gaza redirect to the Nova Music memorial roadshow. The slickly produced propaganda straight out of Hasbara Central was supposed to rally the youth to Israel’s side.

    Lots of kids watched the Nova documentary. Few give it any credibility.

    It’s damn near impossible in 2025 to find a Gen Z non-Jew who doesn’t hate Israel. It’s an awakening unlike anything in the past 50 years.

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  21. sdg says:

    It’s absurd for Vylan to be wrong for chanting “death to the IDF” on stage but it’s OK for every media outlet on the planet to repeat the chant in their stories.

  22. @Tennessee Jed

    Lol, I nearly choked on my coffee when I read the last part of your comment. 😂

    • Replies: @muh muh
  23. BloomieXI says:

    The problem in the world is not anti-semitism, it’s Israeli evil. And if a majority of Jews embrace the psychotically supremacist (Chabad is thousands of orders of magnitude more supremacist than the KKK), lying death cult that rules Israel, then . . .[you fill in the rest].

  24. BloomieXI says:
    @Anonymous

    The IDF could save itself. IDF colonels could stage a couple, execute insane Yahu and his enabling psychiatrists, all the generals, and the war council. Then publish proof of Oct. 7 being a Yahu false flag.

    • Replies: @Wielgus
  25. @Chris Moore

    Voodoo is a Christian sect which originated in Haiti.

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  26. You have to chant it in that particular Black cockney patois that renders “death” as “deaf “. Then you have a perfect rhyme.

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  27. It can be argued Jews hate the English more than they hate Palestinians, who’re merely in the way of developing Trump Gaza as prime real estate for rich Jews fleeing the US when, as Netanyahu put it, the Jews are finished using America and throw it on the ash heap of history. (His words, not mine.)

    If moral subversion, espionage, sabotage, usury, and the invasion of millions of English-hating military aged men are any guide, it can be argued that if any country and people are Amalek to the Jews, it’s the English. What the hell ever happened to their men?

    Maybe it’s just as well that England becomes another Libya or Syria—at the hands of the same people—since there are no men around to lift a finger defending little girls from being gang raped by Paki and African rape gangs. From what I’ve read, a father protesting his daughter being gang raped will be going to jail for hate speech. The first foreigners that need to be deported—that’s if the English can muster a breath of manhood—are all the metro police breaking the backs of Englishmen to protect rape gangs brought into England largely by the Jews.

  28. Anon[761] • Disclaimer says:

    This was intended purely as deflection, designed to serve Starmer and Israel, the West’s key client state in the oil-rich Middle East. It benefits the UK government to make an issue of West Bank settler attacks – and present them as disorganised, random violence by individual extremists that the Israeli government is not responsible for but needs to get a firmer grip on.

    I don’t know why Cook keeps presenting things like this. Everything you’ve written here and your entire career on Israel and the lobby presents the opposite case, that there is no benefit to the West, not even to influential commercial interests (The oil and gas sectors) in it’s disposition towards Israel. If it was about oil then the West would shaft Israel to remove barriers to good relationships and means to co opt Middle Eastern governments more easily. If there was some organic logic to it why does the Israel lobby spend so much furious effort to keep the swan moving? What does slavish support for Zionism from the US, UK. France and Germany get the West, including those whose governments are opening critical of Israel? Nothing, it’s an export of money, political capital and an import of millions of people qualifying for refugee status from all those wars. The only thing in the way of Western commercial interests just buying all the influence they want across half the Middle East is US support for Israel.

    Right now a major disruption to oil supplies and prices is threatened through the continued enabling of Israel and it’s hope to drag the US into a war with Iran. Virtually the only threat to the cosy oil setup between the US and Saudi Arabia has been US support for Israel and the regional conflicts created by Israel’s demand for total dominance. (Including the 9/11 terrorists attacks funded and planned apparently by Saudis motivated US policies towards Israel and US military based in Saudi left over after the Gulf war.) Syria by rights ought to be a totally US dominated client state but it isn’t because of it’s conflict with Israel or rather Israel’s conflict with it. An even better outcome has emerged from Zionist perspectives by the whole country being totally wrecked and unproductive in oil production rather than being like Jordan because Israel wants land off Syria and it can only get it and keep it with a weak Syrian state. The whole reason half the Arab world has Migs and Soviet tanks is because they were effectively forced to align with the Soviets because of America’s policies towards Israel, their natural inclination had been to align with the US.

    Israel isn’t a client state of the West, many Western countries are client states of Israel, namely the USA, UK, France and Germany.

    The reason the deflection to settler violence as a phenomena independent of Israeli society and state would benefit the UK government is because like the fake peace process and Oslo it’s designed to simultaneously stave off criticism from those opposed to Israel’s crimes and the Israel lobby itself. You kick the can down the road while pretending you aren’t and let Israel get away with whatever it wants.

    It’s not a cunning plan, it’s just the path of least resistance. As always the key issue is the Israel lobby and it’s enormous support from domestic Zionists who almost all happen to be Jewish. Because it’s impossible to really mention this, they get away with and criticism is aimed at their proxies, both bribed and coerced, just the way they like it. Instead of criticising Starmer as though he was acting according to his own internal logic we should point out his backers, by name, their motivations (And how those are directly opposite most Britons) who pushed him to become leader of the Labour party entirely on the back of his support for their agenda. I’m not a journalist I come by their names occasionally, Mr. Cook is and should fully wrangle out the whole network of financial backers and histrionic ground people behind these “decisions”.

    Until the MSM stop using “neocon” and start using “Zionist” or “Jewish supremacist” nothing will change until they have used by their hosts to the fullest extent, no death or destruction will have truly been avoided, they’ll have maxed out those credit cards of the Western world.

    These people are at war with the rest of humanity and one day we’ll all regret not speaking up more forcefully.

    These are both prominent public figures who posted these thoughts to Twitter under blue checkmarks. They did this because of the sickness in Jewish identity and culture. A sickness Western liberals can’t bare to see, can’t bare to look at. It’s an appalling vista they dare not engage with and not engaging has allowed the madness we see today. The whole world hostage to the Zionist project and WW3 closer than ever. (The war in Ukraine was a neocon provoked war with the objective of removing Russia from being a block on taking out Syria as they now have done)

    The Zionist mentality of never negotiating in good faith, of never backing down and always going on to more aggression is doomed in the long term the only question is, where will it falter? I keep posting this bit of the Godfather novel that never made it into the films. Don Corleone is here talking about his hitman, an impulsive psychopath so far gone that Corleone predicts eventually even he will meet his end in bloody violence when his lack of boundaries force him to pick one fight too many.

    “There are men in this world,” he said, “who go about demanding to be killed. You must have noticed them. They quarrel in gambling games, they jump out of their automobiles in a rage if someone so much as scratches their fender, they humiliate and bully people whose capabilities they do not know. I have seen a man, a fool, deliberately infuriate a group of dangerous men, and he himself without any resources. These are people who wander through the world shouting, ‘Kill me. Kill me.’ And there is always somebody ready to oblige them.”

    Israel has from it’s beginning demanded to be killed, to be defeated because it can’t live among the other nations, even when a path to cementing their stolen land was before them, they rejected to attempt to wipe out the Palestinians totally, fearing even their continued existence, some will claim the religious crazies caused that by being unable to give up on “Judea and Samara”, the actual reputed home of Solomon’s kingdom. (Ignoring, of course, that the Palestinians of the West Bank are far more descended from any denizens of that ancient kingdom than any Ashkenazim) In truth the settler-colonialist project requires annihilating the before people if not totally than as a true political and cultural force, to neuter them. Israel won’t allow us to be left alone, none of us, it provokes until it will provoke too far.

    Altai. Forgot my password on this machine.

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  29. Wielgus says:
    @YetAnotherAnon

    I would never even have heard of this musical duo, I don’t think it is even a music group, without the furore…

  30. Wielgus says:
    @ProsecuteGenocide

    I’ve been getting Israeli Youtube ads coming up in Britain – no doubt expensive, but very short on power of persuasion…

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  31. Is this a joke? Were the IDF’s feelings hurt or something? How unfair! Just because they destroyed all the hospitals in Gaza, killed women and children with sniper fire, cut off water, food, and aid. The most moral army in the world! October 7th! The hostages(tm)!!!

  32. Wokechoke says:

    It’s all a grift though.

    The idea is to associate Zionism with being a white patriot; and for Multiculturalism to be associated with giving the Palestinians a fighting chance.

    The Jews still hate you white boy. They still run the Yookay.

  33. Wokechoke says:
    @Cloud Posternuke

    Vylan is just as Kosher approved as Trump in his way. He associates Zionism with white identity and associates the Palestinian case with Globohomogayplex. The Mossad couldn’t have a better friend.

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  34. @Misster blisster

    Voodoo is a Christian sect which originated in Haiti.

    “Voodoo” is not a “Christian” sect: it’s derived from African religions and took on “Christian” characteristics to avoid repression. It exists in Brazil by the name “candomblé“, in Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic as “santería“, in other Latin American countries as “umbanda“. Whatever it’s called, it’s even sillier than the Abrahamic religions (Marxism included).

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  35. KenR says:

    The politics of Glastonbury were raucous this year.

    It all started from the inclusion of Kneecap on the bill. Everything else flows downhill from there. Kneecap are an Irish band that got in trouble for not only criticizing Israel but also supporting Palestinians and, in particular, Hamas. Michael Eavis, the founder of the festival, refused to back down from the inclusion of Kneecap, and this began a multifront campaign against Glastonbury.

    In addition to the usual and predictable charges of antisemitism, the entirety of the British mainstream press went about characterizing the event as “passe”, and “too bourgeois”, and a movement that may have begun well but lost its authenticity along the way. To this end, in an amazing new chapter in hypocrisy, the rockstars Neil Young and Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson joined in to decry the inauthentic commercialism of it all, and the evils of corporate influences. They may have stood up bravely for the working man here, mind you, on the tarmac having just deplaned from their private jets, you understand. Neil would even request the BBC to not broadcast his set on this basis. (Neil reliably stands for something always, but’s always unclear whom “he’s working for”).

    Meanwhile Rod Stewart, who performed at the festival, came out beforehand to say, “Give Nigel Farange a chance”, and this set him up for a continuous stream of abuse and outrage throughout the festival, coming from other performing acts throughout events. Predictably, press coverage of Rod’s performance tilted heavily against him for being “old”, “out of touch”, “a dinosaur”, “past his prime”, etc.

    All this happened because of Israel. The engines of public relations were turned against Glastonbury to make them pay for their heresy against Zionism, occasioned by the inclusion of Kneecap. It’s an essay and lesson. Problems will be made for you, across the board — so, behave!

  36. Wokechoke says:
    @KenR

    Arguably Glastonbury is the oldest continuous rite of passage for teenagers in the UK, between Alevels and University.

    You could argue it’s tapping into ancient Stonehenge solstice vibes. So it’s got a Neolithic Copper Age feel to it. Merlin, Arthur and whatnot.

    Lose the crowd at Glastonbury and you lose a substantial part of middle England. Starmer did in fact fuck up. The Jew Wife can’t overwhelm the pagan spiritual centrality of the event.

    • Replies: @Anonymous 1
  37. @Wielgus

    I’ve been getting Israeli Youtube ads coming up in Britain – no doubt expensive, but very short on power of persuasion…

    Without having seen the specific ads in question, the usual thing critics of Israel fail to realize about hasbara is that they’re not the intended audience.

    Of course if you’re inclined to exercise your critical faculties about it, just about every argument for Israel is nothing but another example of what is a shoddy tapestry of lies. But if you want to believe in the first place, the ads will reassure you, and make it possible for you to ignore the muted squeals of the invisible victims.

    The targets are not you. The targets are the good Germans of 1942, who love their Fuhrer and want to believe the Jews are being resettled in the East, where they can learn to do honest work for a change.

    • Agree: Wielgus
  38. @KenR

    ‘…All this happened because of Israel. The engines of public relations were turned against Glastonbury to make them pay for their heresy against Zionism, occasioned by the inclusion of Kneecap. It’s an essay and lesson. Problems will be made for you, across the board — so, behave!’

    It’s all an example of what a poison Zionism is. Not only does it bring misery to its intended victims, it corrupts and degrades everything it touches. The media, politicians…

    Consider, say, Evangelical Christianity. Perhaps that’s not so edifying to begin with — but groups like Christians United for Israel hardly serve to make it more commendable.

  39. Wielgus says:
    @KenR

    I don’t associate Farage with criticism of Israel. (If he has, I stand corrected.) I would be surprised if the youngish trendies who go to Glastonbury like Reform much. Pro-Palestinian sentiment at such a venue does not surprise me at all, however.

    • Replies: @Wokechoke
  40. Wokechoke says:

    Video Link
    Bob Veelan at Glassberry and Jerry Steinfeld.

  41. Wokechoke says:
    @Wielgus

    Radiohead are a famously pro Zionist act. There are several examples of bands with these politics. Coldplay have no problem with the IDF.

  42. Wielgus says:
    @BloomieXI

    They might surprise me, but I see IDF officers as incapable of a putsch. Not out of love of democracy, you understand. Just that it is too risky and they would much rather bombard a captive population or a more or less defenceless enemy.

  43. Anonymous 1 says: • Website
    @Wokechoke

    Arguably Glastonbury is the oldest continuous rite of passage for teenagers in the UK, between Alevels and University.

    I remember the good old days of Glastonbury without the corporate slant, high security fences and mega ticket prices.

    Could get in for £5.00 with no need for a ticket and those without much money could get in for free including the traveller community.

    Stonehenge Festival stopped being a music festival after 1984 sadly.
    There was various festivals including Nostel Priory were the police got very nasty and attacked the travelers.
    There was also the infamous Battle Of The BeanFieldthat saw real violence from the police. All this came down from high from the British Government, well they couldn’t have people thinking for themselves.

    40 years on, an astonishing new archive documents the Battle of the Beanfield.

    1 June 2025 sees the 40th anniversary of the ‘Battle of the Beanfield’ – one of the darkest days in contemporary British history, when a convoy of 150 vehicles heading to the people’s free festival at Stonehenge was ambushed in a quiet corner of Wiltshire, contained in a field for several hours, and then brutally attacked by over 1,000 riot police.

    https://www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2025/05/30/battle-of-the-beanfield/

    Operation Solstice 1991 `BATTLE OF THE BEANFIELD’


    Video Link

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  44. @Anon

    The idea that Israel is a client of the US and not the other way around is a common Chonskyite claim to take the heat off the jews and redirect it to the goyim. Anybody who repeats this stupid lie is just giving cover to jews, which is obviously why Chomsky and other communists push it. Even when criticizing Israel, they refuse to name the jew because that would be an actual threat to ZOG. Better to call them White supremacists and Western settlers than jewish supremacists following the exact strategy their holy book laid out to them 2300 years ago.

    • Agree: Wokechoke
    • Replies: @Chris Moore
  45. Wokechoke says:
    @Wielgus

    Israel is the general officers.

  46. Wokechoke says:
    @Anonymous 1

    Peak Glastonbury was The Cure and Happy Monday’s in 1990. Maggie was a tool of a Jewish cabinet too. The beating in Wiltshire was a disgrace. Every English subculture was under attack from that Kosherized cunt.

  47. I understand the many arguments against Zionists and Jews… what I don’t get is the rush to rally to a ideology and religion that is authoritarian and committed to killing everyone who will not submit.

    Drop the ‘Palestinian genocide’ crap. That tells me you are a marxist… and a marxist is just as bad as a muslim which is (maybe) just as bad as a zionist jew.

    • Troll: Anonymous 1
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  48. muh muh says:
    @Cloverleaf

    Right.

    Because you prefer grade school-tier humor to facts.

    Why does Jed act like a sniveling little bitch? After all, a more contemporary darkie did say those words, which — one would imagine — should be enough to satisfy his needs.

    You see… This is why I’m confident wignats will never succeed in their ambitions, not when most of them can’t even admit the slightest mistake.

    Too hide-bound and egotistical to make a difference in the end.

  49. Wokechoke says:
    @Just-a-guy

    The Jews have driven the Arabs out of Arabia into Albion. A made a pretty penny doing it.

  50. Anonymous[578] • Disclaimer says:

    Shabbos twat Kirsten Gillibrand demonstrates the last-ditch Izzie defense: mass hysteria with persecution ideations. This projects Jew responsibility for direct public incitement of genocide onto the other.

    https://defector.com/kirsten-gillibrand-has-a-racist-meltdown-over-zohran-mamdani-on-public-radio

    This is a cult that’s been brainwashed to the point that their own personality is inaccessible to them. The perfect weapon for CIA, zero self-awareness and extreme, violent neuroticism. CIA/Mossad just winds them up and lets them go.

  51. Cease-genocide would be nice… for now.

    • Replies: @Anonymous 1
  52. @Priss Factor

    It not getting any better for the IOF!

    Gaza Resistance Detonates House on Israeli Troops, Destroys Merkava Tank, D9 Bulldozer.

    https://twitter.com/PalestineChron/status/1939030046611538248

    Palestinian resistance factions have significantly intensified their high-impact operations in the Khan Yunis area, southern Gaza Strip. These actions include multiple successful ambushes and direct engagements against invading Israeli occupation forces and their military vehicles.

    These operations have led to reported casualties among Israeli troops and the destruction of several tanks.

    Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad movement, announced a precise ambush on an Israeli infantry force in eastern Khan Yunis…

    https://www.palestinechronicle.com/gaza-resistance-detonates-house-on-israeli-troops-destroys-merkava-tank-d9-bulldozer/

  53. @NobodyImportant

    “I just don’t get why people have to always quote MLK”

    Nobody ever actually “quotes” MLK — they think that is what they are doing, but they are really just quoting the lying, plagiarizing, adulterous, sex-worker-beating, woman abuser’s Jewish handlers: the Jews who wrote all his scripts for him, and would not let him go off book and sound like the buffoon he really was.

    • Agree: Felpudinho
  54. Chris Moore says: • Website
    @Montefrío

    “Voodoo” is not a “Christian” sect: it’s derived from African religions and took on “Christian” characteristics to avoid repression.

    Just like the other jew-loving “Christian” sects. And before that, just like the Golden Calf Hebrews oppressed by Moses — all primordial African Voodoo, and slipping further and further into that dark religion by the day.

    “Strait is the gate and narrow is the way”.

    • Replies: @mulga mumblebrain
  55. Gareth says:

    When a country goes to war, the best policy is to try to win as quickly as possible. If Israel had cut off the food supply to Gaza on Oct 8 2023, the war would have been over by Christmas of 2023. Very probably, hamas would have surrendered, released the hostages and given up their weapons.
    Alternatively, if they are fanatical enough, the whole population of Gaza would have starved.
    There is no reason to call it genocide if that happened – it would be entirely self-inflicted.
    In reality, Israel’s war effort has been constrained by the Biden regime and by their own squeamishness. It seems that there is now (at last) some popular resistance to hamas and Israel is trying to support the anti-hamas movement. Meanwhile, the screeching idiots chant “genocide”. What the fascist rally at Glastonbury demonstrated is that large swathes of the population have completely lost contact with reality.

    • Replies: @mulga mumblebrain
  56. Chris Moore says: • Website
    @Pop Warner

    The idea that Israel is a client of the US and not the other way around is a common Chonskyite claim to take the heat off the jews and redirect it to the goyim. Anybody who repeats this stupid lie is just giving cover to jews, which is obviously why Chomsky and other communists push it. Even when criticizing Israel, they refuse to name the jew because that would be an actual threat to ZOG. Better to call them White supremacists and Western settlers than jewish supremacists following the exact strategy their holy book laid out to them 2300 years ago.

    So you’re saying that the “Jewish Establishment” of Jesus Christ’s era (the Synagogue of Satan) is the same as the “Jewish Establishment” today?

    But all manner of jews and their stooges and useful idiots claim there is no connection (including Muslim Voodooists). And many of those jews and their stooges and useful idiots who say there is a connection claim Jesus Christ is but little brother to Big Brother or big daddy jew.

    So it seems the Antichrist forces are coalescing into one Satanic and Voodoo nest of vipers.

    Look at the post-Christian liberal and neocon Anglosphere and NATO, and the Islamic Middle East — one big, Satanic and Voodoo nest of vipers, all at each other’s throats.

    The Gospel of Mathew is clearly the most accurate and prophetic book in the entire Bible.

  57. The perfect example of how rule by Jewish supremacist monsters destroys a country’s soul, and mind. Not that of the people, who, despite incessant and total MSM brainwashing, are not the repulsive accomplices installed by Jewintern power in politics and the MSM, but of utter VERMIN like Western politicians and MSM scum. When the EU vipers hiss that there are mere ‘indications’ of Judeonazi atrocities in Gaza, you are through the looking-glass, into Hell. Which is empty, because all the demons are here, and working for the Judaic genocidists.

  58. @Gareth

    As a Judeonazi butcher, you ignore International Humanitarian Law and the Laws of War, preferring psychopathic Judaic blood-lust instead. You are an EVIL, child-murdering, monster, but there’s plenty of you vermin. PS. Your time is up.

    • Agree: Anonymous 1
  59. @Chris Moore

    ‘Strait is the jacket’ in your case you lunatic.

    • Replies: @Chris Moore
  60. @Wielgus

    ‘…They might surprise me, but I see IDF officers as incapable of a putsch… ‘

    I agree. Not as a compliment or an insult to the Oberkommando der IDF — just as a matter of cultural models.

    Some German general once remarked that h would have liked to kill Hitler — but he just couldn’t. He was a Prussian officer, not a Balkan colonel.

    People are able to do what their culture tells them they can do. Latin America, the Christian successor states to the late Ottoman Empire — there are templates for what to do. If others try it, it’s a bust. See the attempted coup over Algeria in France — and of course such notions have never gone beyond fantasy in the United States or Britain.

    So what would be the precedent for Jewish officers carrying out a putsch? I don’t see it.

    Mind, I’d like them to try. I’m confident it would accelerate the dissolution of Israel.

  61. Chris Moore says: • Website
    @mulga mumblebrain

    mulga “Hebrew Brush” mumblebrain, you just can’t but help to side with your Antichrist, Marxist-Zionist tribe, can you? You just can’t but help to worship the Golden Calf, can you? In your case, you’re plying the “global warming” angle, but it’s all part of the ZOG racket.

    mulga “Hebrew Brush” mumblebrain, are you Judeofascists so far gone, you don’t even realize when you’re scamming the goy?

    Shicklgruber/Hitler contrived the mischling laws for people like you and himself — very fanatical, confused and schizophrenic people.

    ‘Strait is the jacket’ in your case you lunatic.

    Projection, much?

  62. @Wielgus

    They might surprise me, but I see IDF officers as incapable of a putsch. Not out of love of democracy, you understand. Just that it is too risky and they would much rather bombard a captive population or a more or less defenceless enemy.

    That is because they are fecking useless in a real fight!

    Jon Elmer, contributing editor, breaks down the latest from the resistance in Gaza, focusing on the ongoing second battle of Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip.


    Video Link

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