Nixing visas is a wise US response to Bob Vylan – Latest News
Kudos to the State Department for revoking the visas for British punk-rappers Bob Vylan: Our nation doesn’t need to let bare antisemites in for a tour.
The pair led the Glastonbury Musical Festival crowd in chants of uncooked hate, together with “From the river to the sea, Palestine must be, will be, inshallah, it will be free,” and “Death, death to the IDF.”
The first is a demand to expel or kill all of the Jews of Israel; the latter, transparently, is an outright call for the slaughter of the Jewish state’s defenders.
With tens of 1000’s becoming a member of in from the viewers, it was a actually Hitler-worthy spectacle.
But additionally ample purpose for the feds to nix the duo’s visas for a coming tour: No foreigner has a proper to go to this nation and make large money for selling hate and terrorism.
Bob Vylan additionally faces backlash back home: Prime Minster Keir Starmer and a host of different pols have denounced them; the BBC is squirming over having broadcast the efficiency and the United Talent Agency says it can stop repping the band.
They additionally face a police investigation, however the UK’s efforts to police speech are a mess full of double- and triple-standards.
To be clear: US residents have the best to blare hate speech as vile as Bob Vylan’s, however the First Amendment doesn’t imply we need to let Nazis come go to.
Cheers to Secretary of State Marco Rubio and the Justice Department’s Leo Terrell for his or her consideration to this matter.
