The BBC broadcasts anti -Semitic songs as the British Jews bring back crimes of hatred

Jewish leaders of the United Kingdom expressed their indignation this weekend against anti-Semitic songs led by artists at a flagship music festival which was broadcast live on British public television, but the community has long warned an alarming increase in hatred crimes since the October 7 attack in Hamas 2023 against Israel.

Even before the performance of Saturday by the British duo of Rap -population Bob Vylan – in which the singer chanted “death, death at the FDI (Israeli defense forces)” – Jews in Britain declared that they no longer feel welcome, citing government inaction in the fight against anti -Semitism.

“Bob Vylan’s song did not come from an empty space,” said David Collier, an independent investigative journalist at Fox News Digital.

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Anti-Semitic hatred exhibited during an anti-Israeli demonstration in London. Anti-Semitism in the United Kingdom has reached record levels since the terror of Hamas attacks on October 7, 2023. (Campaign against anti -Semitism on X)

Necklace, which monitors “anti-Semitism within the anti-Zionist activity”, said that “Vylan is so lost that he really believed that he was talking for humanity when he called for the death of 100,000 people of Israeli young people … The crowd who did not see his member of his assertive in Borde Coverage.”

“The final product was a team effort that shows how the dominant UK of the United Kingdom has become an anti-Semitic genocidal ideology,” he added.

According to the Community Security Trust, which records anti-Semitic incidents through Great Britain, the attacks against the Jews have crowdedWith some 3,528 incidents reported in 2024 and 4,296 in 2023 – the highest of all time.

Hundreds of people attend a demonstration called by the National Jewish Assembly, the campaign against Antisemitsim and British lawyers for Israel at the BBC Broadcasting House on October 16, 2023 in London. The National Jewish Assembly protests against the rejection of the BBC to label the terrorists of Hamas and comes after the recent attacks of the militant group against Israel. Hamas was prescribed as a terrorist organization by the United Kingdom in March 2021. (Photo of Guy Smallman / Getty Images)

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An investigation into the British Jewish community published by the Campaign against anti -Semitism (CAM) In January 2025, only a third (34%) believe that the community has a long-term future in the United Kingdom and up to half has considered having left Great Britain in the past two years due to anti-Semitism.

The survey also revealed that less than half of the British Jews (43%) feel welcome in the United Kingdom, the majority saying that they had to hide their Judaism due to anti-Semitism. Less than a tenth said they thought that the authorities were doing enough to approach and punish anti -Semitism.

In addition, 92% said they considered the media bias against Israel as fueling the persecution of the Jews in Great Britain. The BBC, said the respondents, was the worst in terms of coverage of questions of Jewish interest.

The anti-Israeli demonstrators have a banner saying “from the river to the sea”, in London on December 9, 2023. (Andy Soloman / UCG / Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

“It has been clear for some time that anti-Semitism has been standardized in the United Kingdom, but the fact that it is now disseminated openly and clearly on the BBC with a minimum outcry shows how bad the situation has become bad,” Sacha Roytman, CEO of Cam, Fox News Digital.

“Incituration to violence should be a red line that obliges the British government and the BBC to take all possible measures against these artists and to make sure that they do not have such a platform to spit their hatred and their violence again,” he said.

The Prime Minister of the British center-left, Keir Starmer, was late condemned Vylan’s performance, affirming in a statement: “There is no excuse for this kind of appalling hate speech” and calling on the BBC “to explain how these scenes were disseminated,” said media.

Danny Cohen, a former director of the BBC, wrote in the Daily Telegraph Sunday that the BBC violated its own directives on the speech of hatred and called on the government to take more action.

Bob Vylan Crowdsurfs in front of the West Holts scene during the fourth day of the Glastonbury Festival 2025 in Worthy Farm, Pilton on June 28, 2025 in Glastonbury, England. (Photo of Leon Neal / Getty Images)

“The BBC has been repeatedly unable to obtain its own house in order on anti-Semitism”, he wrote, citing, “coherent-Jewish hate and the bias of journalists on the Arabic of the BBC” and a recent “debacle” surrounding a contaminated documentary on Gaza.

The paraplron organization of the British Jewish, the Council of Deputies, said in a statement that it “would continue to seek BBC responses on how this hateful content was authorized to be disseminated and to ensure that there can be repetition in the future.”

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He also condemned the Glastonbury Festival, saying that “his committed commitment to” peace, unity, respect and hope “when his scene is used to promote songs calling for death”.

“What happened in Glastonbury is the symptom of a disease in British society,” said Nicole Lampert, journalist and activist based in the United Kingdom against anti-Semitism. “For me, and I say that with great sadness as a British and also as a person who has spent many years as an entertainment journalist, it starts with the BBC.”

A boy, wearing a kippah, holds the British flag during 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 the BBC, that the British pay via their taxes, offers “very few nuances in the” conflicts in the Middle East.

“There are rules in place, which means that the BBC and its journalists are strictly neutral, but social media has shown that it is a lie,” she said, adding “every day on each Jewish group on which I am, someone says” I cannot stay here “.” “”

In an article on X, the Israeli Minister of Affairs of the Diaspora Amichai Chikli urged the British Jews to “leave the country”.

“The BBC has a long story of serious prejudice against Israel, but today a dark line has been crossed by dissemination calls for the murder of TSAhal soldiers,” he wrote, adding that “when such an incentive is normalized, those who do not act, those who do nothing to stop it, assume the responsibility for the blood of the Jews and the Israelis living in Great Britain.”

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Like the Prime Minister, the BBC has late a statement said that it “should have drawn” the live broadcast of performance and that Vylan’s performance contained “completely unacceptable” and “anti -Semitic feelings”.

“Millions of people have passed to take advantage of Glastonbury this weekend through the production of the BBC, but a performance in our live flows included deeply offensive comments,” said BBC.

The British government did not immediately answer digital questions from Fox News.