The once-famed music festival gives an insight into a sorry generation.
Unlike in Israel where Hamas terrorists showed up uninvited to the Nova music festival, the British Glastonbury festival has Hamas supporters throughout the crowd and on stage. One act that would appear to be as popular as acne screamed out, “death, death to the IDF”. The BBC was good enough to broadcast this statement to the 17 people watching throughout the UK. In case anyone thought that he misspoke, he later told the crowd that if they want their country back, they’ll never get it. Apparently after much analysis, they too have concluded that England overrun by British-hating Muslims is on a one-way ride that all but guarantees Queen Fatima before 2050. The Glastonbury crowd, dropping around $500 per ticket to hear groups that normally play at weddings and birthday parties, had no shortage of “Palestinian flags” waving in the hot British wind.
Let’s take a second to think about the supposedly pro-Palestinian protesters in the West. They include many unassimilated Muslims who have come to various countries legally or illegally. They include local Muslims who hold a very anti-local bent and wish for a Sharia state in place of say the German or Dutch government. They include lefty students and citizens who hate the very countries that have given them freedom and material wealth. And they include the bored, like many boomers who for the right price can find themselves holding a sign about something of which they know nothing.
A while back, there was a terror trial in Brooklyn that involved a bank that performed banking services for Hamas terrorists who had harmed American citizens. The bank brought an “expert” who wished to show that Hamas was not really a terror organization but rather a civil society group that for some reason had killed many people. The expert witness said that she knew Arabic and was well-versed in Palestinian culture. One smart lawyer for the terror victims pulled out a Hamas flyer in Arabic and asked her to translate it. She sat frozen in the witness box. Very feebly, she admitted that she did not read Arabic and had no idea of what was written on the paper put before her. The lawyer, also not speaking Arabic, said that he recognized enough to pick out several keywords including “Hamas.”
Just as the highly-paid expert witness knows nothing about and cares nothing for the Palestinians, so too those waving flags and holding placards of “intifada revolution” and “from the river to the sea” don’t give a hoot about the Palestinians. Oh sure, they talk about how many Palestinians have died in Gaza according to Hamas, without any breakdown between terrorists and human shields. Many don’t know where the area of interest is; they wouldn’t know which river and what sea. They know nothing of Palestinian history which began around 1968. They cannot waste a single word to admit the atrocities that occurred to Jews on October 7, 2023. They never mention two states. When the U.S. works with the IDF to hand out 50 million meals to Palestinians, they immediately demand that food distribution return to Hamas control. What is going on?
Let’s imagine that I hate the Yankees. I don’t but let’s say that their brash ways and ruthless spending have rubbed me the wrong way. If I lived in New York, it would be very bad manners to bad mouth the Bronx Bombers. So what do I do? I present myself as a rabid Boston Red Sox fan. I cannot stop waving their flag, wearing their hat, posing with their jacket. I don’t have a clue as to who their players are or what their recent history is. All I know is that I want to stick it to the Yankees, and the Red Sox are my choice for doing so. Now look at our protesters. They were so pro-Palestinian. Then when Israel whacked Hezbollah, the headbands and flags of the Lebanese terror group came out. Most recently, they protested in favor of the Iranian regime that has murdered hundreds of girls and women for not covering their hair properly in public. They don’t care whom they support as long as they consistently stay opposed to Israel and the Jews.
And it definitely is Israel and the Jews. Jews who are harassed are not asked if they are Zionists, have visited Israel or support current IDF operations. Nope. The windows are smashed (as in the only major kosher store in Boston with a brick having a Palestinian slogan on it), and the graffiti goes up on synagogues that have expressed no opinion on the war. Where did this industrial-scale Jew hatred come from?
What happened at Glastonbury and occurs on campuses throughout the US and in big Western cities is a poisonous combination of lefty and Muslim Jew haters. Each has hated Jews for different reasons but together they have put together a nuclear antisemitism that makes a Jew feel safer in Dubai than in London. In the Emirates and Saudi Arabia they understand the danger of the virulent Jew-hatred peddled by the Muslim Brotherhood and forbid any display of Palestinian flags. The West is lost not because it cannot be saved but rather because it doesn’t have the energy to save itself. The most right-leaning leaders are not talking about “assimilate or leave” or throwing out illegal immigrants by the thousands per day. They have mumbled for years about stopping the boats and then do nothing other than give housing and benefits to people who say that they hate their hosts and associated culture. America has a problem of people squatting in other people’s houses; Europe has a problem of people squatting in their countries with no interest in assimilating or going back to the countries they praise but have abandoned.
The BBC and government will do some pathetic investigation and like Mr. Weasely belatedly berating Ron and company for taking the Enchanted Car, they will say, “that was wrong, very wrong.” But it will be with a wink and a smile, because the British know that their way of life is over. The British police would rather arrest the one pro-England or pro-Israel protester than deal with dozens of Hamas supporters demanding the death of Israelis and Jews. There is an expression in Israel, “Ain li ko’ach”, which literally means I have no strength. In reality it means that I just can’t be bothered to clean up my room or go back to the store for the one thing I forgot to buy. The Brits don’t have the energy to deal with the Jew-hating rapper, his thousands of supportive fans or the illegal aliens who are destroying what’s left of Ye Olde England. I’m glad that we visited London when we did. Now, it truly is lights out, lights out, London.
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