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The Sight of Hundreds in England Chanting for "Death to the IDF" Crossed a Line

(Jewish Chronicle-UK) Hen Mazzig - This year, the Glastonbury Music Festival in southwest England offered a disturbing new performance - a chant: "Death to the IDF" - broadcast to millions by the BBC. For anyone with a modicum of historical awareness, this wasn't protest music. It was a chilling echo of a hatred as old as Europe itself. Some will say it's just a slogan, just theater. But history has taught us that these words are never "just words." If this were simply about holding armies to account for harming innocents, where are the chants for "Death to the U.S. Army" for Iraq and Afghanistan, or "Death to the British Army" for the legacy of empire and more recent wars? No one at Glastonbury, or any British festival, would ever dream of it. The armies of these countries have killed far more civilians, yet are not reduced to symbols of existential evil in polite society. This rage, this fury, is reserved only for the world's only Jewish army. The IDF is the fragile buffer between Jews and the abyss of history. We are not paranoid, the world has turn a blind eye to our genocide in living memory, and remind us today they would do it again. This is not an abstract fear. On Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas terrorists massacred hundreds at the Nova music festival in Israel while simultaneously targeting Jewish families in their homes. The IDF was all that stood between my family and absolute annihilation planned by Hamas. Ultimately, these protests, these chants make Israelis feel like the entire world is against them, that any concession towards peace will inevitably come at the expense of their security, because the world will never support them. The message is unmistakable: you are alone, so you must fend for yourself. And so we will.
2025-07-01 00:00:00
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