It’s always fun to see a twit have his arse handed to him. And it happened with bells on for Owen Jones on Friday. He’d spent the whole week defending Bob Vylan’s sick chant of ‘Death to the IDF’ at Glastonbury. That gurning punk and the sozzled white brats who joined him in his grim clamour were not actually calling for the death of Jewish people, Jones Gentile-splained in the Guardian. No, they were just calling for the ‘dismantling’ of a ‘military machine’, he said, quoting Bob Vylan’s own explanation. How dumb do you have to be to think that a mob screaming for death actually wants death, Jones wondered from his impenetrable bunker of smugness.
Then he went on Piers Morgan Uncensored. And Morgan had a surprise for him. Do you ‘100 per cent’ believe, Morgan asked, that when Bob Vylan said ‘Death to the IDF’ he did not mean ‘death to individual soldiers’? ‘Yes’, Jones snapped with superb conceit. Then Morgan showed him a clip filmed in May, pre-Glasto, at Alexandra Palace. It showed Bob Vylan calling for ‘death to every single IDF soldier out there’. There it was, clear as it was vile: a punk and his mob whooping with deathly glee at the prospect of every soldier of the Jewish State being wiped out without mercy.
Jones’s face was a picture. He smiled awkwardly, though fuck knows what there is to smile about when you’ve just been rumbled on TV as someone who provides moral cover to mobs that clamour for the death of the Jewish nation’s soldiers. He went into panic mode. He tried some whataboutery. Israeli officials have said worse about Palestinians, he yelped in desperation. It was an extraordinary sight: a self-styled ‘anti-fascist’ floundering on TV after being exposed as excuse-maker-in-chief for one of the most fascistic cries we’ve heard in this country in years.
In the world of decency, the world not yet lost to the cranial pox of Israelophobia, everyone knew what ‘Death to the IDF’ meant. We knew that if the plummy bigots of Glasto got their way and the IDF ‘died’, then the Jewish homeland would be left to the mercy of the armies of anti-Semites that surround it. We knew that ‘Death to the IDF’ meant death to the Jewish youths who swell its ranks. And to the millions of Jews they are charged with protecting from the Islamofascists in their midst.
How did others not see this? Why did activists who wang on about ‘hate speech’ give a nod of approval to this truly hateful dream of death for Jews? Why did leftists who reach for the smelling salts when a feminist says women don’t have cocks cheer like loons when they saw a crowd call for the violent demise of foreigners? It’s because their hearts and minds have been corroded by Israelophobia. It’s because they are so firmly in the grip of this swirling bigotry that their capacity for reasoned thought, far less kindness, has been all but destroyed. It’s because society’s moral guardrails have collapsed under the weight of their raging animus for Israel, unleashing a neo-medieval delirium that should horrify us all.
That’s what Jones’s performance on Morgan’s show brought home to me: the sheer mania of the bourgeois hatred for Israel. There is much speculation about why Jones seemed so unstable. He appeared frenzied, tormented, almost smashing his glass at one point. This has led some, including JK Rowling, to wonder if he’d partaken of the white stuff before going on air. Actually, Jones has since tweeted, he was on amphetamines for my ADHD. Taking drugs in your 40s for that most middle-class of imaginary malaises? Mate, just pretend you did coke instead of admitting to that.
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Author: Ruth King
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