By broadcasting a live performance from Glastonbury where an artist chanted “death to the IDF” before a cheering crowd waving Palestinian flags, the BBC crossed a line no responsible broadcaster should ever approach—let alone promote. This wasn’t music. It was hate speech. And it was allowed into British homes with licence-payer backing.

The IDF (Israel Defence Forces) is the combined armed forces of a democratic ally. Calls for its destruction are not legitimate protest—they are direct incitements to terrorism and violence, indistinguishable from the rhetoric of Hamas, a terrorist organisation paid for by Iran whose charter calls for the obliteration of Israel and whose tactics include murder, rape, and hostage-taking.

This performance—complete with anti-Jewish slurs about a “bald-headed Jewish boss”—wasn’t just offensive. It was dangerous. It fed a growing culture of antisemitism masked as activism. It legitimised the kind of crowd-thrilling, rage-fuelled tribalism that leads to real-world hate crimes. And it did so on the BBC’s watch.

The BBC had ample opportunity to act. They could have cut the stream. They could have withdrawn the feed but didn’t. Instead, anticipating what might come, they issued a vague content warning and let it run. So much for editorial standards. So much for impartiality. It’s not hard to imagine that the 900 BBC employees at Glastonbury enjoyed this moment as much as all of the other mindless but privileged middle class warriors who waved their Palestinian flags. It’s the same lot who cheered for Jeremy Corbyn several years ago.

And, speaking of Labour (yes, in my view Corbyn is still Labour and Labour is still Corbyn), where are they in all this?

Wes Streeting’s response was an embarrassingly breath-taking attempt at false equivalence – a very revealing insight to the thinking of one of the more cerebral members of the cabinet. Yes, he condemned the performance—but then unforgivably pivoted to blame Israel, telling them to “get your own house in order.” Unbelievably he tried to balance condemnation of terror-sympathising performers with condemnation of a democratic state defending itself. What on earth is Labour playing at? It would appear they’ve perfected moral cowardice.

The same Labour Party that spent years under Corbyn defending anti-Zionist extremists (literally, in the Courts as you may recall) is now under Starmer playing both sides. They want to look tough on hate speech while pandering to activists who idolise Hamas and vilify Israel. They condemn antisemitism when it suits them, but hesitate when it costs them votes on the hard Left.

At a time when Jewish people in Britain are facing record levels of hate crime, when hostages remain in Hamas captivity, and when Israel is fighting a defensive war against terrorists, and their sponsors, Iran, it is utterly shameful that our national broadcaster chose to amplify those who shout “death to the IDF.” To me, the IDF are heroes, doing the work that the cowardly West should have done.

We must not stay silent. We must not allow the BBC to hide behind process or our Labour government to hide behind ambiguity.

Enough is enough.