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Sudetenland Tales
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declining west, so long as that evil first wishes death upon the jews.
Whether Bob Vylan, the dreadlocked rapper who led Saturday's version of Orwell's “Two Minutes Hate,” was breaking the law is beside the point. Legislation is limited when the culture moves beyond it. Even the BBC's attempts at decorum; they had refused to broadcast the performance by Kneecap, the White Irish band which has supported Hamas and Hezbollah and demanded that people kill their local Tory MPs, collapsed when put to the test. But, the "Death to the IDF" chant was beamed out by the UK’s national broadcaster into millions of homes.
On Thursday, Sir Michael Eavis, the founder of Glastonbury, defiantly insisted that people should “go somewhere else” if they did not like the politics of his festival. By Saturday, we saw what those politics meant; a carnival of bloodthirsty radicalism that would have been unrecognizable in the Britain of our swinging, boomer parents.
Jeremy Corbyn may have epitomized the sight of the Gaza Left by praising a banner saying “Build bridges not walls” that was literally pinned to a wall, but the joke is wearing thin.
For years, sensible people have scratched their heads at how the Left can have come to support jihadis. At the Glastonbury