Fury at Glastonbury as Band Sparks Outrage with Anti-Israel Military Chant

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00:53The best set of Glastonbury happened on the West Holt stage.

01:19Bob Villan followed by Kneecap, incredibly high energy.

01:23And one of the things that was so incredible about both these acts is that they put the

01:27genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza front and centre.

01:31So I think we're in a really exciting time for political punk music.

01:49The work of punk artists has always been to push against the back.

02:15The work of punk artists has always been to push against the boundaries of acceptability.

02:22You saw it with Susie Sue, you saw it with Johnny Rotten and Sid Vicious, you saw it with

02:27The Clash, you see it with Rage Against the Machine.

02:30So my message to people is don't book punk bands if you don't want them to do punk stuff.

02:37I really wish I'd done some crafting though.

02:44Fucking Tush and her mum went and made their own swearing.

02:49I think that the mood in the audience was one of excitement and elation and that was in relation

03:13to the fact that so many people had tried to censor Kneecap in particular.

03:19There was the leaked letter by 30 music executives who tried to get them pulled from the lineup.

03:24You had the comments from Keir Starmer about broadcasting Kneecap.

03:28And when you create that kind of environment, when you are clamping down an artistic expression,

03:33I think other people want to move into that space.

03:36No one wants to be told what they can or can't say when it comes to protests and when it comes to art.

03:53I'll tell you what crosses the line, killing children, killing women, killing civilians when they're queuing up for aid.

03:59Death, death to the IDF is an expression of disgust and rage.

04:03And one of the things that I really take issue with at the moment is that the language which is being used

04:08to express that human horror at the genocide is being given more scrutiny

04:14than the actual actions of the IDF themselves.

04:17I mean I found it quite surprising that it had that much backlash.

04:22I get it again like chanting is always going to create controversy.

04:28But yeah I just found it surprising that it was so condemning that he would say such a thing.

04:37Or like that it would be seen that way.

04:40And in reality I think a lot of this is, and a lot of the media around this,

04:44is an attempt to distract from the real issue, which is right now in Palestine there's a genocide going on

04:49and instead we're talking about what one artist or two artists said on a certain stage,

04:53when really what we should be talking about is the hundreds of thousands of lives being lost in Gaza.

04:57Thank you very much.

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