They Are Lying to You About Antisemitism. Here Is the Ugly Truth.

Let’s be perfectly clear. When a crowd of thousands at a music festival, broadcast to millions by a state-funded media company, chants for the death of the soldiers of the world’s only Jewish state, it is not a political protest. It is a mob calling for the murder of Jews. And the fact that we are even forced to have this debate is a sickening indictment of a progressive culture that has become a primary engine for the oldest hatred.

The mask has not just slipped; it has been torn off and stomped into the mud of Glastonbury. The pathetic attempts to frame the “Death to the IDF” chant as mere “anti-Zionist” political critique have collapsed under the weight of reality. The festival’s own organizers have been forced to condemn it as “appalling,” “antisemitism,” and “incitement to violence.” The British police are now assessing it as a potential crime. This isn't rhetoric anymore. This is evidence.

The Great Progressive Whitewash

For years, we have been fed a poisonous lie. It is a sophisticated, academic-sounding lie, whispered in university halls and printed in the pages of legacy newspapers. The lie is that one can passionately call for the dismantling of the one state that protects Jewish people from annihilation, yet harbor no ill will towards Jews themselves. It is the great progressive whitewash, and its purpose is to make raw, unvarnished Jew-hatred palatable in polite society.

Look no further than the frantic efforts to defend New York politician Zohran Mamdani. As his anti-Israel vitriol becomes undeniable, his defenders in places like The New York Times rush to wield intellectual shields like the “Jerusalem Declaration” to create a semantic smokescreen. They argue, with patronizing complexity, about the fine lines between criticizing a government and hating a people. But this is not a university debate. While they split hairs, mobs are screaming for blood. Their intellectual gymnastics are a cowardly betrayal, providing cover for a menace that is growing more brazen by the day. They are not clarifying the definition of antisemitism; they are deliberately trying to break it so that their allies can escape its judgment.

From Festival Mud to Terrorist Bloodlines

We must dispense with the naive belief that this is just about misguided activists. We must see the truth. The chant at Glastonbury was led by the performer Bob Vylan, an artist who has been platformed alongside the Irish rap group Kneecap. Why does this matter? Because a member of Kneecap was charged under the UK’s Terrorism Act for chanting support for Hamas and Hezbollah—designated terrorist organizations committed to the slaughter of Jews.

This is not a coincidence. It is a connection. It shows the direct pipeline from the “edgy” anti-Israel activism on a festival stage to outright sympathy for violent terrorist groups. When you create a culture where calling for the death of Israeli soldiers is acceptable entertainment, you are opening the door for those who celebrate the groups that actually murder them. The line between “political speech” and incitement has been crossed, and it leads directly to the glorification of terror. The “anti-Zionism” of the progressive left is not a peace movement; it is the cultural wing of a violent ideology.

A Culture of Coercion vs. A Stand for Decency

This ideology does not spread through reasoned argument. It spreads like a virus, through coercion and fear. While thousands were chanting for death at Glastonbury, the rapper Azealia Banks revealed the other side of this coin. She claims she is being pressured by promoters to “say Free Palestine” or risk being blacklisted.

Here is the moral contrast in its starkest form. On one side, a movement that enforces its dogma with threats and mob anger. On the other, the simple plea for truth and safety. The pro-Palestine movement in the arts and on campus is not a grassroots expression of justice; it is an authoritarian orthodoxy. It demands conformity. It punishes dissent. It silences artists and intimidates students. It is a cancel culture with a body count, where the price of a career might be a forced endorsement of an ideology that culminates in chants for death.

The Rot is Systemic: From MIT to the BBC

If this were confined to a muddy field or a few online forums, it would be bad enough. But the rot is systemic. It has infested the very institutions we are meant to trust. At MIT, one of the world’s most prestigious universities, Jewish students have been forced to file a federal lawsuit alleging a horrifying campaign of antisemitic harassment that administrators have allowed to fester. Our elite educational spaces are failing in their most basic duty to protect Jewish students from intimidation and hate.

Simultaneously, the BBC—a global emblem of journalistic integrity—used its platform to broadcast the Glastonbury hate-chant to the world. They amplified incitement. Now, facing formal condemnation from both Israeli and UK government officials, they are a symbol of media complicity. From the halls of academia to the public airwaves, our elite institutions are no longer neutral observers. They have become accelerators of antisemitism, laundering hate speech as political dissent and providing a global stage for its perpetrators.

This is not a misunderstanding. It is a deliberate campaign to normalize Jew-hatred under a progressive banner, and our institutions are failing the test. The lie that “anti-Zionism is not antisemitism” has been exposed. It is the intellectual cover for the oldest of hatreds, and it is time to stop pretending otherwise.

The choice is clear. So what can you do?

• Share this truth. Do not let the lies stand unchallenged in your conversations, online and offline.
• Demand action. Demand that the BBC and other media outlets be held accountable for broadcasting incitement. Support the brave students suing MIT and other universities that fail to protect them.
• Reject the lie. The next time someone tells you that calling for the destruction of Israel’s defenders is just “criticism,” tell them you know exactly what it is. It is antisemitism. Do not be silent. Your voice is a weapon in the fight for civilization. Use it now.