“Democracy,” JD Vance said, rested on the “sacred” principles that free speech and the voice of the people mattered.
Vance’s speech, delivered after he’d met with the leader of a far-right political party accused of playing down the horrors of Nazi Germany – and backed by Elon Musk – took particular aim at Britain, where he claimed basic religious freedoms were in “the crosshairs”.
During the show, singer Bobby Vylan, whose real name is Pascal Robinson-Foster, started leading the crowd in chants of “Free, free Palestine” but then switched to “Death, death to the IDF”.
“Let them see us marching on the streets, campaigning on the ground level, organising online and shouting about it on any and every stage that we are offered,” he wrote.
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Yet some of the sharpest criticism came from the US, where Bob Vylan had been scheduled to start a tour beginning in Spokane, Washington, in October.
A report on Monday in the conservative news site the Daily Wire said the State Department was “already” looking at a potential revocation of the visas of 34-year-old singer Bobby Vylan and bandmate Bobbie Vylan.
The privately-funded advocacy group StopAntisemitism, which says it is “dedicated to exposing groups and individuals that espouse incitement towards the Jewish people” has been posting online about Bobby Vylan and tagging various politicians such as Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Texas Senator Ted Cruz.
Without citing any evidence he added: “This is the base of the Democrat Party.”
“These…chants are abhorrent and have no place in any civil society,” he said.
But on social media, Christopher Landau, the United States deputy secretary of state, confirmed the issuance of a ban.
“Foreigners who glorify violence and hatred are not welcome visitors to our country.”
If journalists are presented with a chance, one hopes they ask him how banning Bob Vylan from coming to the United States fits in with his no exceptions defence of free speech. Let’s see what he says.
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