Glastonbury was not an anomaly. At any big music festival today, you will encounter tons of musicians and fans speaking out about Israel’s campaign of genocide against the Palestinian people. “Free Palestine” chants are all over the place. At any large gathering like that, you can see that this is not a controversial issue for the vast majority of plugged-in people. It’s something that people want to talk about it. But various forces, both inside and outside the music industry, have aligned against some of those artists, attempting to make an example of them — Kneecap’s Mo Chara getting his with a terrorism charge, Bob Vylan having their US visas revoked. Now, Bristol elders Massive Attack are launching a new alliance for artists facing “intimidations” and “organized censorship” for talking about what’s happening in Gaza.
