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The Sun
30-06-2025
- Politics
- The Sun
BBC hit new low allowing rap star to call for murder of Jews – sinister move goes beyond double standards
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. 6 6 6 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. 6 6 6 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.
National Post
19-06-2025
- Politics
- National Post
Joe Oliver: Having silenced critics, university admins think they can do no wrong
Article content There is no suggestion that it might actually be a problem, which is remarkable given the widely known facts, which were extensively outlined in Harvard's 311-page report from its 'Presidential Task Force on Combating Antisemitism and Anti-Israeli Bias.' Article content The presidents of McGill and Concordia in Montreal both acknowledged that antisemitism is a ' significant problem ' at their universities. A class-action lawsuit has been launched against McGill for creating an antisemitic environment. The University of Toronto has been accused of having 'a long and sordid history of failing to protect Jewish learners, faculty and staff.' Article content As a grateful alumnus of McGill and Harvard, I take no pleasure in identifying their failings, but I'm struck by how different the environment was when I attended classes in the 1950s and '60s. Back then, there was tolerance for diverse views, and it was unthinkable that students would be threatened or demonized based on their religion, ethnicity, race or country of origin. Of course, most students are not harassed now, but Israelis and Jews appear to be the exception. Article content Administrators and faculty at Harvard (and other universities) have trouble accepting how they are perceived by the public: elitist, privileged, subsidized by taxpayers, charging high tuition, bloated by administrative staff, captured by DEI and other racially discriminatory admissions and hiring policies, and frequently advocating ideas that defy common sense. Operating in a groupthink bubble can lead to responses that underestimate and devalue criticism. Article content The indoctrination of a woke mindset has implications beyond pampered university campuses. The division of society into the oppressed, who are perpetually victims, and oppressors, who are settler-colonizers and always the guilty party in any conflict, churns out students who loath western history and civilization and have contributed to the worst outbreak of global antisemitism since the defeat of Nazism 80 years ago. Article content Article content
Yahoo
01-06-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Rising antisemitism is causing immense harm to American Jews
'A Sacramento rabbi speaks out about rising antisemitism,' ( May 24) Rabbi Reuven Taff's article resonated with me. He expressed the painful reality Jewish people are experiencing across California and around the country, facing violent hate crimes at schools and synagogues and Jewish communal facilities, like the Jewish museum in Washington, D.C. Callous indifference appears to be mounting to abuses and expressions of bigotry and discrimination against Jews. Anti-Jewish sentiment is widespread in America, and it is causing immense harm to Jewish Americans as individuals, as families and as a community. People of conscience need to step up as allies and speak out in defense of freedom, equality and safety for Jews and in defense of the rights and welfare of Americans of all backgrounds and identities. Noam Schimmel Lecturer, UC Berkeley 'California updates track meet rules after Trump threat,' ( May 27) California state law correctly protects the rights of all public school students, including trans students, to be free from discrimination while participating in school-sponsored activities. To the extent that the President of the United States and California State School Superintendent candidate Sonja Shaw, who is running on an anti-trans platform, think they have the power and/or ability to restrict California's students simply because they don't like our non-discrimination laws just goes to show what despicable bullies they truly are. The 16-year-old trans student and her mother who are now caught in the eye of this storm are real-life heroines for not only standing up to the bullies holding positions of power in federal and local government, but also to hate-mongering individuals screaming at them from the track meet stands. Like the state of Maine, I have no doubt that Attorney General Rob Bonta will legally challenge any unlawful action taken by the federal government against California and our students. Wendi Ross Roseville 'US Senate votes to overturn California bid to ban gasoline-powered vehicles,' ( May 22) Congratulations to Congress for blocking California's unprecedented and short-sighted attempt to ban gas-powered vehicles by 2035. In a stunning defeat for Gov. Gavin Newsom, this move restores some policy sanity to the once 'Golden State.' In a state leading the nation in poverty, with some of the highest costs of living, Newsom seems determined to remake the state into a haven for only the wealthy. Michael Pruden Sacramento 'California waives the rules for wildfire rebuilding projects,' ( Jan. 29) Safeguarding communities from wildfires is imperative, but the Fix Our Forests Act, co-sponsored by Sen. Alex Padilla, isn't the answer. The bill ignores decades of science-backed research and promotes reckless backcountry logging that fails to keep people or communities safer. It doesn't mitigate fire behavior in extreme wind-driven wildfires and may even worsen fire risk because forest floors will experience increased exposure to the sun's drying heat, and windbreaks will be lost. We deserve legislation protecting forests and providing real defense against wildfires, not the faux fix of this bill. Jennifer Normoyle Hillsborough
