Pro-Palestine demonstrators on the streets of Britain have been led in a chant of ‘Death, death to the IDF’ – in a sick imitation of punk duo Bob Vylan’s performance at Glastonbury. Protestors who gathered in Leicester on Sunday shouted the slogan during a speech by controversial activist and ex-Guantanamo inmate Moazzam Begg.
Begg, now a director at CAGE, told the crowd: ‘One of the beautiful chants you made today was death to Zionism…You know yesterday at Glastonbury what was said? Shall I say the words? Death, death to the IDF’.
At a protest in Leicester today, protestors chanted "Death to Zionism!”
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Speaker Moazzam Begg also repeated the chant heard at Glastonbury yesterday: "Death to the the IDF."
And he explained why so many people across the globe are calling for the end of Zionism — the political… pic.twitter.com/WjBNUAZHtF
He went on to tell activists that ‘Israel itself is a war crime’ before ending his speech by leading the crowd in a chant of: ‘Free, free Palestine’.
The video of Begg’s address, which was released on the 5Pillars X account, showed a protestor in the background wearing a balaclava. Several hundred people took part in the demonstration.
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