outspoken member of the Labour Party, Jones turned on his former political home, describing it as run by “soulless ghouls” and claiming that Sir Keir Starmer was “more dishonest than Boris Johnson”.
He went on: “We’re going through the biggest assault on free speech since the height of McCarthyism.”
In an hour-long appearance, Jones accused Israel of having detonated “about six Hiroshima bombs worth of explosions” on Gaza. He declared: “No crime in history has been so documented as it happened.”
He labelled Palestinians in Israeli prisons as “hostages” and alleged that Israeli forces were committing “industrial scale rape”.
“How depraved would you have to be to be supporting this?” he asked.
How depraved would you have to be to come out with this shit? And how obsessively Jew-hating?
At another festival event, Palestine Pulse performed “Grandchildren of the Nakba”, during which Palestinian flags and keffiyehs were distributed for free.
Meanwhile, a quieter event titled “Action for Hope from Israel and Palestine” drew a small audience of around 20 people. The session featured Palestinian peace activist Hamze Awawde and Israeli social justice campaigner Rona Lotan, who both spoke about the need to end the war in Gaza and build bridges for peace.
Peace? Who cares about peace when there's Jew-hatred to be stirred up?
Young people going on about the "anti-capitalist revolutionary struggle” is part of the generational landscape, but when it gets mixed up with a fixation on Israel and the Jews it gets very ugly very quickly.
Bob Vylan and Kneecap were just the tip of a nasty iceberg.
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