The Gaza discourse has been Vylanised – but that diversionary strategy just doesn’t work any more | Archie Bland
IYou are in the work of monsters, you can see why your eyes light up in a porn work called Pop Villan. Until last weekend, certainly, this may have been a difficult sale of their announcement as a personal photo of the increasing British youth: although they may be in the scene of the villain in the United Kingdom, they had about 220,000 listeners per month on Spotify – only 1,000,000 from somewhere in one place Best 10,000. But then, in Glastonbury, they made the strongest possible state of the interest of the wide media: they are He said something controversial About Israel’s assault on Gaza, and opened an opportunity to go to BBC.
And so on the next morning, on The first page of the mail on SundayNow the arrest of the Al -Sharair band, which led “death to the chants of the Israelis in Glastonbury.” The story showed that Pascal Robinson Foster, also known as Bobby Villan, began a tour of the “anti -Semitic chant” that was broadcast live on the company’s coverage of the festival. Kiir Starmer called it “horrific hate speech.” Calls to arrest the band members were I picked up quicklyAnd a long time ago, the conservatives suggested this BBC must be tried also. On Monday, the story started in the sun, the Daily Mail newspaper, the Daily Telegraph newspaper and the Daily Express newspaper.
In fact, Robinson Foster did not want “death to the Israelis”, but “death to the Israeli Defense Army”, a sharply different proposal, and one focuses on the military machine attacking Gaza, and Israeli defense forces, rather than Israeli civilians. However, the mail is on Sunday’s address stuck. In a large part of the coverage, the idea that the anti -Semitic chant was not a question was not a question.
The assertion was barely explained in any of the stories of the first page; BBC Even Glastonbury Emily Evis He also went with her. If you are looking for the logical basis, the closest you got Stephen Pollard in the mail on Sunday: After comparing the scene with the Nuremberg gatherings, he added that “what they mean – because the Israeli Defense Army is the only Jewish state army in the world – it was” death and death to the Jews. “Later, Andrew Nile Go further: “I would have said that sometimes they seem to have more common denominators with the Nuremberg gathering.” “But even the Nazis did not say” death to the Jews. “
Meanwhile, YVette Cooper ordered the ban on Palestinian action as a terrorist group to target buildings and companies in opposing the actions of Israel in Gaza, although it does not have a violence agenda-and after the last minute The legal challenge of the celebration failed On Friday, their support is now a criminal crime. In that environment, any uncertainty about Bob Villan’s story will be dealt with clearly that he apologized for hate speech, or what is worse, and therefore there was not much of it.
In fact, though, many people may have been inconceivable. The Israeli Defense Army as a fatal for any Jew is not a typical cup in the lexicon of the extremist, and the conditions of the Israeli army’s attack on Gaza are the subject of the intended chanting force. However, Avon and Sumer Police now have now A criminal investigation opened.
There, certainly, convincing objections to lift them. Robinson Foster described the head of the registration mark as a “Zionist”, and while he indicated that the executive authority “will talk strongly about his support for Israel”, it is reasonable to be accused of playing in The anti -Semitic cupEspecially from the music industry.
At the same time, some Jews are already alerting The rise in racist hostility towards them Perhaps I was concerned about a crowd scene chanting against the Israeli army. The reasonable people will reach a set of conclusions on those points – but there was no space for that discussion, because the Israeli Defense Army appears to be the Jewish people everywhere, and everything else is lost in mixing mixing.
The number of deaths in Gaza is now Standing in more than 57,000According to figures from the Ministry of Health in Gaza; Strong independent survey Recently, put the count In nearly 84,000. Israeli ministers and officials gave the weight of allegations that genocide is underway with assurances that the hunger of two million Palestinians to death It may be “justified and moral” And descriptions a Forced “deportation plan”. The amount of aid that enters the region remains Part of what is required. at least 400 Palestinians were killed Recently, in incidents that involve the Israeli Defense Army while approaching food distribution centers; Haritz mentioned The soldiers were deliberately ordered to shoot them, and they were demanded by Israel that they were “evil lies.”
Meanwhile, in the United Kingdom, the only neighboring story that is worthy of the first page is to make a mysterious evil group of Epswich. On June 17, At least 59 Palestinians were killed After the Israeli Defense Army shot a crowd waiting for flour trucks near Khan Yunis. Daily Telegraph was not distinguished the next day, Daily Mail, Sun, Daily Express at all coverage of that story. Perhaps they would do if the BBC broadcast it live.
It will be understood, then, to conclude that the Bob Village – the knee, and the Palestinian action – are mainly important to its transformative power. But there is something more at work here. Not only that people are angry that the catastrophe in Gaza does not pay attention to the payment: they are rejected with the reality that can be categorically observed. The choice that these stories put in place by being anti -racism, or even anti -terrorism, and terror from slaughtering thousands of brown civilians into a military siege. For anyone who routinely sees videos of the effects of Israeli violence against civilians in social media summaries, this is sufficient to make you feel crazy.
Throughout the United Kingdom and the United States, there is increasing evidence that people who object to what we might call Velens for Gaza’s speech find their voice. In the general elections last year, work He lost five seats for the candidates supporting GAZAAnd She lost about a third of her vote In some areas of the Muslim majority. In New York, Zohran Mamdani won his victory in the preliminary elections of the Democratic town despite the caricature attempts Defending “jihad”. About 55 % of the British public The military campaign against Israel in Gaza is opposedAnd 45 % look at Israel’s actions as a collective genocide. Less than half of the Americans are now more SympatheticAnd about 60 % of Democrats are now more supportive for the Palestinians. Among people under the age of 40, these numbers only rise.
These people were told that the Gaza protests are the marches of hatred; They can see This is not true. They were told that the demonstrators on the American campus Point greatly from anti -Semitism; They can see This is not true. They have been told that Palestine is a terrorist organization because it sprays overlooking military aircraft; They can see This is not true. He has repeatedly told them, by Benjamin Netanyahu, that opposing the Israeli war is anti -Semitic; They can see This is not true. They were told that the British government He finds the actions of Israel “unbearable”; They can see This is not true.
They are now informed that the opposition of the Israeli Defense Army is anti -Semitic, and that the Glastonbury crowd is more fierce than those in Nuremberg, and that direct action is a form of terrorism. They can see all this incorrect, however, their point of view is from the front pages, they know that they are far from alone.
