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Jewish leaders in the United Kingdom expressed their outrage this weekend by the anti -Semitic songs led by artists at a flagship festival that was broadcast live on British public television, but the community has been warning for alarming for alarming Increase in hate crimes From the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023 against Israel.
Even before Saturday’s performance by the British rap duo Bob Vylan, in which the singer sang “death to the IDF (Israel Defense Forces)” —– Jews in Great Britain They have said that they no longer feel welcome, citing the inaction of the government to address anti -Semitism.
“Bob Vylan’s song did not come from an empty space,” said David Collier, an independent research journalist, Fox News Digital.
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Anti-Semitic hatred on display in an anti-Israel protest in London. Anti -Semitism in the United Kingdom is reaching record levels from Hamas terrorist attacks on October 7, 2023. (Campaign against anti -Semitism in x)
Collier, who monitors “anti -Semitism within the antisionist activity,” said that “Vylan is so lost that he really believed that he was talking for humanity when he asked for the death of the 100,000 of the young Israeli … The crowd that he sang along with him saw nothing bad in echoing his call to genocide. No member of the crew of the creation of traps was appropriate to turn off the plug. coverage “.
“The final product was a team effort that shows how blind the United Kingdom has become a genocidal anti -Semitic ideology,” he added.
According to Community Security Trust, which records anti -Semitic incidents in Britain, attacks against Jews have arisingwith about 3,528 incidents reported in 2024 and 4,296 in 2023 – The highest of all.
Hundreds attend a protest called by the National Jewish Assembly, the campaign against Antisemitsim and the United Kingdom’s lawyers for Israel at the BBC Broadcasting House on October 16, 2023 in London. The National Jewish Assembly is protesting the BBC’s refusal to label Hamas’ terrorists and occurs after the recent attacks of the militant group against Israel. Hamas was prescribed as a terrorist organization for the United Kingdom in March 2021. (Photo by Guy Smallman/Getty Images)
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A survey of British Jews published by the Campaign against anti -Semitism (CAM) In January 2025, he showed that only one third (34%) believes that the community has a long -term future in the United Kingdom, and halfway said they had considered leaving Britain in the last two years due to anti -Semitism.
The survey also found that less than half of the British Jews (43%) feel welcome in the United Kingdom, and most said they needed to hide their Judaism due to anti -Semitism. Less than a tenth said they believe that the authorities were doing enough to address and punish anti -Semitism.
In addition, 92% said they see the media bias against Israel such as feeding the persecution of Jews in Britain. The BBC, said the respondents, was the worst in terms of their coverage of matters of Jewish interest.
Anti-Israel protesters have a banner that says “from the river to the sea”, in London, on December 9, 2023. (Andy Soloman/UCG/Universal Images Group through Getty Images)
“It has become clear for a time that anti -Semitism has been normalized in the United Kingdom, but the fact that it is now transmitted openly and clearly in the BBC with a minimum shown show how bad the situation has become,” said the CEO of CAM, Sacha Roytman, Fox News Digital.
“The incitement to violence must be a red line that forces the British government and the BBC to take all possible measures against these artists and ensure that they do not have such a platform to throw their hatred and violence never again,” he said.
The Prime Minister of the left of Great Britain, Keir Starmer, lately condemned Vylan’s performance, saying in a statement: “There is no excuse for this type of terrible hatred speech” and ask the BBC “to explain how these scenes were transmitted,” according to media reports.
Danny Cohen, a former BBC director, wrote in The Daily Telegraph on Sunday that the BBC was violating its own guidelines on hate speech and asked the government to take more measures.
Bob Vylan Crowdsurfs in front of the West Holts stage during the four Glastonbury 2025 Festival at Worthy Farm, Pilton, on June 28, 2025 in Glastonbury, England. (Photo of Leon Neal/Getty Images)
“The BBC has been repeatedly unable to order its own home in order on anti -Semitism,” he wrote, citing, “Jewish hatred and bias consisting of reporters in the Arab BBC” and a recent “debacle” around a contaminated documentary about Gaza.
The British Jewry Paraguas organization, the Board of Deputies, said in a statement that “it would continue to seek BBC responses on how this hate content was allowed to be transmitted and that it would ensure that there could be no repetition of this in the future.”
He also condemned the Glastonbury Festival, saying “his professed commitment to” peace, unity, respect and hope “sounds hollow when its scenario is used to promote the songs that ask for death.”
“What happened in Glastonbury is a symptom of a disease in British society,” said Nicole Lampert, a journalist based in the United Kingdom and based in the United Kingdom and Anti -Semitism activist. “For me, and I say this with great sadness as British and also as someone who spent many years as an entertainment journalist, this begins with the BBC.”
A child, with a Kipá, holds the British flag in a march against anti -Semitism after an increase in the United Kingdom, during a temporary truce between the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas and Israel, in London on November 26, 2023. (Reuters/Susannah Ireland)
Lampert said that the BBC, which the British pay through their taxes, offers “very few nuances in the reports” of conflicts in the Middle East.
“They are intended to be established rules, which means that the BBC and its journalists are strictly neutral, but social networks have shown that it is a lie,” he said, added “every day in each Jewish group in which I am, someone says ‘I can’t stay here'”.
In a publication about X, the Israeli Minister of Diaspora Affairs, Amichai Chikli, urged the British Jews to “leave the country.”
“The BBC has a long history of severe bias against Israel, but today a dark line was crossed for transmission calls for the murder of Soldiers of the FDI,” he wrote, and added that “when such incitement is normalized, those who do not act, those who do nothing to stop it, have responsibility for the blood of the Jews and Israelis who live in Great Britain.”
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Like the prime minister, the BBC issued a late statement that said that “it should have drawn” the live transmission of the performance and that Vylan’s performance contained “completely unacceptable” and “anti -Semitic feelings.”
“Millions of people tuned to enjoy Glastonbury this weekend through the production of the BBC, but a performance within our live broadcasts included comments that were deeply offensive,” said the BBC.
The British government did not immediately answer Fox News’s digital questions.
