The truth about ‘progressives’ like Bob Vylan |
Maybe it’s because I’m getting on in years, but I remember when being “progressive” meant supporting women’s rights, believing in gay liberation and opposing the persecution of ethnic groups. Yet now “progressives” are giddily cosying up with the fanboys of a foreign regime that ruthlessly represses women, hangs gays by the neck and funds proxy armies to rape and murder a certain ethnic group. Something’s gone wrong, hasn’t it?
Vylan is a man who fancies himself as hyper-progressive. He subscribes to every lazy orthodoxy of the dinner-party left
Vylan is a man who fancies himself as hyper-progressive. He subscribes to every lazy orthodoxy of the dinner-party left
Just look at Bob Vylan. Fresh from titillating the silver-spoon genderfluids of Glastonbury with his hateful hollers of “Death, death to the IDF”, yesterday the warbling punk band’s frontman took to the stage at the Al Quds gathering in London. In front of a vast banner featuring the face of Ayatollah Khamenei – the late butcher of Tehran, the mass murderer of Iranian progressives – he delivered a speech on Palestine, railing against Israel and the “pigs” of the Metropolitan Police.
Draped in the mandatory keffiyeh of the turbo-smug left, he stood before a simmering mob of ayatollah cheerleaders and ranted about Israel’s “genocide” and Britain’s “complicity” in it. He got the........