21 July 2025, 14:18 | Updated: 21 July 2025, 15:19

By Kobi Farhi

Like many other Israelis, I was horrified but ultimately unsurprised by the scenes from this year’s Glastonbury festival in the UK.

As an artist who has spent my entire career using music to build bridges and friendship that can lead to peace between Israel and the Muslim world, it is deeply upsetting that a music festival is used as a backdrop for promoting hate and violence. Where my colleagues and I chose dialogue and extending a hand to our fellow musicians across the region, Kneecap and Bob Vylan sadly prefer division.

I was born and grew up in Jaffa, just to the South of Tel Aviv. A mixed city where Jews and Arabs live together, I was raised listening to classical Arabic music as well as more modern pop from our neighbours in........

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