Bobby Vylan's chant was far worse than Lucy Connolly's tweet. So why is he not in prison?

Telegraph

8 hours ago

I have no special insight into the decision making process of Avon and Somerset Police. Nor can I reveal hitherto hidden information about how the Crown Prosecution Service reaches its decisions.
But when it comes to understanding how and why Bob Vylan, the punk duo responsible for leading a death chant against the IDF at Glastonbury on Saturday, will be allowed to get away with it, I simply point you to how the criminal justice system has responded to Jew hate over the past twenty months when the regular hate marches have been protected rather than prosecuted.
To recap: on Saturday a rapper, Pascal Robinson-Foster, started screaming 'death, death to the IDF' (the Israeli army, which is overwhelmingly composed of Jews and exists to defend Jews), to which the crowd responded by chanting with ever increasing fervour his call for Israeli soldiers to be murdered.
The BBC happily broadcast the sequence. Perhaps it will spark a new trend of primetime Jew hate. There is clearly an audience for it.
The organiser of Glastonbury, Emily Eavis, realised that while the Glastonbury crowd seemed to have no issue taking part in a modern version of the Nuremberg Rallies, on balance it wasn't the look the festival was after, so she too issued a statement, saying that the death chants 'crossed a line' and there was no place at festival for 'hate speech'.
She had clearly forgotten that she is the same Emily Eavis who programmed a man from Kneecap, on trial for a terror offence and that she handed a Glastonbury stage to a member of Palestine Action, an organisation about to be proscribed as terrorists. Ho hum, easily done.
And of course the police did nothing, although that evening Avon and Somerset police managed to find the willpower to issue a statement that they are 'aware of the comments made by acts on the West Holts Stage at Glastonbury Festival this afternoon. Video evidence will be assessed by officers to determine whether any offences may have been committed that would require a criminal investigation.'
Let me translate that for you: nothing will happen. That's not a guess. It's based on the past twenty months of nothing happening in response to crowds chanting chanting 'globalise the intifada' – kill Jews, in other words – the police stand and watch and the CPS refuse to wake from their torpor. So I am as certain as I can be that Pascal Robinson-Foster will face no consequences for his incitement to murder Jewish soldiers – indeed, he will now be lauded by the likes of the Glastonbury crowd who lapped up his Jew hate. And the BBC will likewise face no consequences for refusing to pull the broadcast of his incitement.
Meanwhile, of course, should you choose to tweet something bad, you will find a very different response from the authorities. Whatever your view of the imprisonment of Lucy Connolly, the respective responses to date to her tweet and what on any measure is a far worse, more immediate and more frenzied call for murder – and one seen by and broadcast to infinitely more people – is not just two-tier justice; it appears to be a grotesque demonstration of the acceptance of Jew hate by the police, the CPS and the BBC.
I hope, of course, that I am wrong and that this proves a turning point, with the criminal justice system at last starting to take calls to murder Jews seriously. But I won't be.