BBC hit new low allowing rap star to call for murder of Jews – sinister move goes beyond double standards

The Sun

2 days ago

THE BBC has gone too far this time.
Over the weekend, it broadcast around the world disgraceful scenes of thousands of people chanting demands to murder Jewish people.
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It sends hundreds of staff and spends millions broadcasting Glastonbury every year, but no one thought to pull the plug when Pascal Robinson-Foster — who ludicrously calls himself Bob Vylan — ranted about working for a 'f***ing Zionist' and then led the crowd in chanting 'death, death to the IDF'.
Let's be clear: That is a call for the murder of Jewish people.
First, because most members of the Israeli armed forces are Jewish.
But second, because the IDF prevents the mass murder of Israel's Jewish citizens.
Whether it is the racist terrorists Hamas and Hezbollah on Israel's borders or Iran trying to build nuclear weapons, without the IDF, Israel would be destroyed and its Jewish citizens murdered.
That is what was broadcast on Saturday.
The BBC's own rules say: 'Broadcasting hate speech can constitute a criminal offence if it is intended or likely to stir up hatred relating to race, or intended to stir up hatred relating to religious belief.'
Its Director General Tim Davie should already have sacked whoever allowed this to happen.
And if, as Attorney General Richard Hermer claimed last week, it is 'disgusting' to suggest the law is not being applied equally and impartially, then the police must take tough action too.
They and the courts must act as quickly now as they did when Lucy Connolly was prosecuted for whipping up a mob with a call to commit racist violence after the Southport murders last year.
Fury as Glastonbury crowd chants 'death to the IDF' during Bob Vylan set aired live on BBC
And we are entitled to ask why the leader of Palestine Action won't face trial until next year for offences committed in 2023.
Or why the police announced last week that the ridiculous rappers Kneecap won't be prosecuted for telling a crowd: 'The only good Tory is a dead Tory. Kill your local MP.'
But we have long since got used to different standards being applied by the BBC, politicians, the police and prosecutors when it comes to Israel.
Report after report has shown the BBC's consistent and systemic bias.
Take one example: In October 2023, the BBC rushed to cover an explosion at the Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza.
Pompous international editor Jeremy Bowen claimed it had been 'destroyed' and 'flattened'.
Another BBC correspondent said it was hard to see what could have caused it, 'other than an Israeli airstrike or several airstrikes'.
Millions saw those reports, including in the Middle East where riots took place.
Arab leaders cancelled peace talks with President Biden.
Iran hit a hospital in Beersheva in Israel.
And when it turned out that the rocket in Gaza had not hit the hospital, but landed in the car park after being misfired by Palestinian terrorist, the BBC brushed it all aside and Bowen said that he 'doesn't regret one thing' about his reporting.
Look at Parliament too.
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Every single week there are emergency debates in which childish MPs trot out teenage lies about Israel committing war crimes, genocide or apartheid.
Most of them know next to nothing about Israel or its history, but that doesn't matter as long as it gets a few likes on Twitter or TikTok.
As a result, Israel and Gaza have been mentioned ten times more than Sudan, where famine has killed more than 500,000 children and thousands more have been killed in the civil war.
Israel has even been discussed more than twice as much as Russia and Ukraine and almost twice as much as the NHS or immigration and asylum — issues our MPs can actually do something about!
Let's be really clear. If you single Israel out or accuse it of committing uniquely evil crimes, you are responsible for causing racism and hatred against Jewish people in Britain.
There are 200 land-based conflicts in the world, so if the only conflict you care about is the one that involves Israel or the only country you campaign against or think shouldn't exist just happens to be the only Jewish one, don't tell me you are not an anti-Semite.
The Labour Party need to be very careful on this.
One of the reasons Jeremy Corbyn was beaten so badly in 2019 is because ordinary decent British people thought an obsession with Israel and one-sided support for the Palestinians looked mad — and they were appalled by the anti-Jewish racism that poisoned the party under his leadership.
And BBC bosses must finally wake up too. Their job is to stand up for British values of democracy, freedom, fairness and tolerance.
If they can't or won't do that, they must be replaced by people who will.