cross-posted from: https://toast.ooo/post/15368324
The frontman of British punk rap band Bob Vylan was denied entry to Germany, detained at the Berlin airport, and ultimately deported to the United Kingdom last month due to his pro-Palestine statements.
German federal police justified deporting the band’s vocalist on June 15, referencing a performance at the Glastonbury Festival in England in 2025 where Bob Vylan led a chant of “Death, death to the IDF,” or the Israel Defense Forces.
A police file on Robinson-Foster obtained by The Intercept alleges that he disseminated antisemitic narratives and Hamas propaganda that could “radicalise certain segments of the [German] population” and serve as “ideological justification” for terrorist groups or individuals. It also says that Robinson-Foster poses a threat to Germany’s public security and public order. Allowing him into the country would cause “considerable reputational damage” by creating the impression that Germany was making “no effort to prevent the spread of the propagated antisemitism and the associated calls to violence.”
The IDF absolutely is Israel. Israel has a conscription so most citizens in Israel are active participants in the genocide of the Palestinian people. Not to mention the state of Israel is an illegal settler-colonial apartheid state so all Israelis in Israel are living on stolen Palestinian land.
However some of the strongest supporters of Palestinians have been Jewish people of all forms, including a few Israelis.
(IDF == Israel) != Jewish people
Sir, that’s comes out to
True != Jewish people. It does the same thing right now, but that’s probably not what you intended and may cause bugs at some point down the line.Only lemmings would use comparison operators to explain political topics and then have the replies evaluate the expression lol.
Ok I’m trying to figure out how to work an ∃ into this conversation…