Although Glastonbury and the BBC condemned comments on the stage of Bob Vylan at the Music Festival of England, at least a Jewish organization of human rights is not satisfied with the answer.
Jim Berk, CEO of Simon Wiesenthal Center, called both the festival and the network for providing a platform for “shameful” performance, in which Vylan led the crowd in the songs of “Death to the Idf” and “Free Palestine”.
“He was disgusting, dangerous and cooling recalling a modern Nazi rally,” said Berk, adding: “It was a public incentive, not a performance. Explicit calls for violence against the Jews, broadcast live by the BBC without interruption, literally gave a scene, a most respected microphone and microphone.”.
Berk continued: “What about Glastonbury’s bland answer? To say that the songs “simply crossed a line” and offering waves “reminders” to artists is not a responsibility – it is cowardice. Facing explicit calls for violence against the Jews, all that is absent from absolute condemnation and corrective action is a complicity. “
By referring to the Invasion of October 2023 of the Hamas of the Nova Music Festival of Israel, where 378 were killed and 251 hostages were taken, Berk described the songs “deeply re-tasty and terrifying”.
“It’s a calculation moment. The organizers of the festival, the media and the artists must choose: will they be platforms for peace, or catalysts of hatred? Because silence is not neutrality, it is a green light for fanaticism,” added Berk. “Festivals must be ready to stop the performance that invokes hatred; The broadcasters must broadcast different live festivals and use their killing switch to immediately remove hatred speeches.
Following the performance, the BBC has decried the “deeply offensive” whole, which a spokesman said that they “did not intend to make performance available on demand”.
A Glastonbury representative said that civil servants are “dismayed” by the songs, who “have crossed a line a lot and we are urgently recalled all the people involved in the production of the festival that there is no room in Glastonbury for anti -Semitism, hate speech or incentive to violence.”
